Waste-to-Energy Workshop for the Ohio Livestock & Food Processing Industries
Wooster, OH
January 31, 2007

Agenda
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7:30 AM	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM	Welcome	Sara Ward – Chief, Energy Efficiency Program, Ohio Department of Development Steve Slack – Director, OARDC / OSU
8:30 AM	Ohio Livestock Envir. Permitting Stds.	Kevin Elder – Ohio Department of Agriculture
9:00 AM	Digester Basics	Dr. Floyd Schanbacher – Ohio State University
9:30AM	CHP - The Concept	John Cuttica - Director, Midwest CHP Center
10:00 AM	Break
10:15 AM	Insights From System Developers
	GHD, Inc	Melissa Dvorak, Marketing Manager
	RCM Digesters	Mark Moser, President
	NewBio E Systems	John Mills, Sr. Process Design Engineer
11:45 AM	Lunch
	Keynote Speaker	Mark Shanahan - Exec Director, Ohio Air Quality Dev. Authority
12:45 PM	Working With the Local Utilities
	Connection to the Grid	Dale Arnold – Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
	Public Power Interaction	Pat O’Loughlin – Buckeye Power
1:45 PM	Digester Case Studies
	Food Processing Plant 1 Food Processing Plant 2	Michael Maringer – Campbell’s Soup Co. Craig Kasper – K&H Energy Services
	Feed Lot, Dairy, Ethanol Plant	Wendell Dreve – Managing Member, CEO Farmers’ Ethanol LLC
2:45 PM	Carbon Credits & Trading Program
	Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program	Jeff Eschmeyer - Ohio Farmers Union
3:15 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Next Steps .... Where do you go from here?
	Wayne Economic Dev. Council	Brian Gwin – Project Manager
	Depart. Of Agriculture Farm Bill	Randy Monhemius – U.S. Depart. Of Ag.
	Ohio ODOD Program	Jim Zuber & Tony Sutor – Energy Effic. Office
4:30 PM	Adjourn