Alternative Fuel Vehicles – Driving the Future
Tuesday, 9 April

Session A (9:30 am – 11:30 am)

• Introduction to Alternative Fuel Vehicles - Cathie France, Deputy Director, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy
• SNAPSHOTS: Who’s doing what in VA?
  • Natural Gas
    • Chesapeake's CNG Project--The Honorable George Hrichak, Fleet Manager, City of Chesapeake and Board of Supervisors, York County.
    • Decreasing our Dependency on Foreign Oil One Truck at a Time--Hank Brown, Director of Fleet Maintenance, TFC Recycling;
    • City of Richmond DPW CNG Project--Mike Kearns, Energy Services Manager, City of Richmond
     
  • Biodiesel
    • Arlington County, VA Biodiesel Success Story--Allen Mitchell, Chief, Equipment, Arlington County
     
  • Propane
    • Propane--Jerry Farmer, Operations Superintendent, City of Newport News
    • Propane Autogas Successes--Tripp Greene, Virginia Autogas
     
  • Electric
    • Electric Vehicles in Virginia--Andrew Flavin, Alternative Energy Research Analyst, Dominion Resources
     
   
• Public-Private Sector Leadership to Reduce Fuel Costs - Michael L. Bisogno, Director, Office of Fleet Management Services, VDGS
• Alternative Fuels - Paper Session
  Moderator: MAJ Tim Moore, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, VMI
  • (S)Exploratory Research and Development of Algae: Tomorrow’s Bio-fuel—Caleb Talbott, Student, and Premal Patel, Student, James Madison University
  • (S)Reducing the cost of Biodiesel Production in Virginia—Jonathan Hawkins, Student and Jason McNamara, Student, James Madison University
  • (S)Converting Waste Cooking Oil to Biodiesel – Parker Helble, Student, James Madison University
  • (S)Novel Vehicle Exhaust Emission Reduction Technology—Joseph Crosbie, Student, James Madison University
   

Sessions B and C (2:45 pm – 5:30 pm)
Interest – Feasibility – Deployment
Moderator: John Warren, President of the Board of Directors, Virginia Clean Cities

• Review Opportunities and Information (Sabrene Bader, Director of Grants Administration, Virginia Clean Cities, and Mr. Bosogno)
• Get Buy In from All Parties (Ms. France and Mr. Hrichak)
• Run the Numbers to Build your Case (Mr. Kearns and Mr. Farmer )
• Knowing Vendors (Mr. Brown and Mr. Warren)
• Deployment and Evaluation (Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Kearns)
• Breakout groups for in-depth discussion
  • Compressed Natural Gas
  • Propane
  • Biofuels
  • Electric
   
• Closing Group Discussion and Readouts from Breakout Groups