11 - 12 October 2011, San Francisco, USA This key event will bring together the leaders of the US biogas industry to examine how to develop commercially successful biogas projects and address the latest technological advances in production.

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North America’s premier biogas event
Silver Sponsors: Supporting Utility:
Keynote Address: A Track Record of growth
Commissioner Jim Boyd, Vice Chair, 2009 118
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industry leading speakers include: 2011 *projected 250
Number of attendees 50 100 150 200 250
utilities
Ken Brennan, Senior Project Manager, Business Development,
Pg&E
Key reasons to attend Biogas West:
george Wiltsee, Manager, Biogas Procurement,
southern California Edison Developing profitable biogas projects – Learn the latest
experiences from key utilities project owners
Ronald Kent, RD Project Manager,
sempra utilities Meet the right people – 55% board director level
Valentino Tiangco, Lead – Biomass and Senior Project Manager, attendance in 2010
sacramento Municipal utility District Financial analysis – Understand the latest policy
Tom Maclean, Manager, Customer Renewable Energy Programs, developments who is investing in biogas projects
Puget sound Energy
improve efficiency and reduce costs – Hear how
Policy legislation technology advancements are improving the economics
Chris Voell, Program Manager, AgSTAR, identify growth areas – How should your biogas operation
us EPA be set up?
Rachel goldstein, Team Leader, Landfill Methane Outreach
Program (LMOP),
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Albert straus, Founder President,
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2. “Great conference! I was really delighted to see the larger
attendance and the continued development of this
important annual event” Ag Biomass Council (attendee at Biogas USA 2010)
The world markets for biogas are booming, getting more professional and continuing to increase plant efficiency. The
market worldwide will reach a value of over US$50 billion by 2030 for plant developers, operators and suppliers.
According to the American Biogas Council there are over 160 anaerobic digesters on farms and about 1500 more operating
at wastewater treatment plants in the US. Of the 1500 wastewater treatment plants about 250 currently use the biogas
produced. In addition, more than 500 landfill gas recovery plants are running. This key event will bring together the
leaders of the us biogas industry to examine how to develop commercially successful biogas projects and address the
latest technological advances in production.
Biogas West Advisory Board Meet the right people
2010 Attendee Breakdown
Green Power Conferences would like to thank the industry experts who have
contributed their time to make this agenda as strong as possible.
Kevin D. Best, Harrison Clay,
Chief Executive Officer, President,
RealEnergy Clean Energy
Renewable Fuels Developers/Farmers/Municipalities Utilities ..............33%
Jacques Franco, Climate Hanafi Fraval, Technology Providers ............................................18%
Landfill Operators ................................................11%
Change Technology, Board Member,
Construction Engineering ......................................9%
CalRecycle - Department Ag Biomass Center
Banks/Venture Capitalists ........................................6%
of Resources Recycling Government/Regulators ..........................................5%
and Recovery Attorneys ............................................................3%
Other ..............................................................15%
Brian gannon, Thomas M. Hintz,
President, Partner, 2010 Attendee Job Title Breakdown
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Kevin Maas, David H. Mauney, BOARD EVEL
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President, President, ATTEN
Farm Power Northwest The Hunter group
VP/Director/General Manager ..................................28%
Lewis R. Nelson, Valentino Tiangco, Board-Level ........................................................27%
Public Works Director, Lead – Biomass and Senior Business Development ..................................13%
City of Tulare Senior Project Manager, Project Management ............................................14%
Engineering ........................................................8%
sacramento Municipal
Research ............................................................6%
utility District
Other ................................................................4%
Who Will You Meet?
• Dairy/poultry/hog/fish farms • Biomass plant operators • AD technology suppliers • Banks and investors
• Crop farms • Waste to energy project • Waste management contractors • Farming and agricultural
• Food processers manufacturers developers • Waste water treatment suppliers
• Landfill owners • Biogas cleaning companies contractors • Fleet managers automotive
• Biogas upgrading companies • Consulting engineers industry
• Waste management authorities
• Biogas plant builders/contractors • Gas pipeline operators • Policy makers
• Municipalities
• Biogas plant suppliers • Natural gas vehicle industry • Utilities
• Biogas project developers
Over 800 past attendees at our global Biogas events, including senior representatives from:
Adolfson Peterson Construction• Air Products Chemicals • Alameda Power Telecom • Ameresco • American Biogas Council • Applied Filter Technologies • Axpo Kompogas • Bay Area
Air Quality Management District • Bidart Dairy • Biogas Energy • Biogas Nord • Anlagenbau • BioGasclean • Bioprocess Control • Biorem Technologies • BioStar Systems • Biotech • Brugg
Rohrsystem • BTs italia • Burns McDonnell Engineering • Caliente Sales Solution • California Center for Sustainable Energy • California Dairy Campaign • California Power Partners •
CalRecycle • CALSTART • Cascadia Capital • Castelanelli Brothers Dairy • City of Palo Alto • City of Tulare • Clean Energy Fuels • Clean Energy Group • Climate Action Reserve • Contente
Co Dairy • Cornerstone Environmental Group • Dailey Farms • Deep Blue NRG • DH Renewables • DMJ Gas Marketing Consultants • Dorset Green Machines • Energy Biotechnology Institute
• ECOCORP • Electrigaz • Element Markets • EMCOR Energy Services • Emerson Climate Technologies • Energenic • Engine Builder Magazine • EnviTec Biogas • EPA/AgsTAR • ERG •
Evergreen Farms • Farm Power Northwest • Fiscalini Farms • FiT Coalition • Fuel Cell Energy • gas Technology institute • Gasrec • Gladstein Neandross Associates • Guild Associates
• Habitat Carbon Assets • Harper Adams University College • HETEK Solutions • Hollandia Farms • Humboldt Waste Management Authority • IANGV • Ingersoll Rand • Innate Energy • Institute
for Energy Resourcefulness • Keuttner • Liberty Recycling • Liquid Environmental Solutions • Magneson Dairy • Melo Heifers • MT-Energie • MWV • NAES Corporation • National Farmers
union • National Grid • Netzsch North America • New Resource Bank • Northern California Power Agency • Oksa Gas Engineering • Open4energy • OWS • Parkway Services Group • Phillip
Verwey Dairy • Purac Puregas • RealEnergy • Renewable Energy Power Finance • Caterpillar Financial Services • Renewable Farming Group of Washington • Rez/Aber Holsteins • Rhodia
Energy • Ros Roca Envirotec USA • Rovanco Piping Systems • sacramento Municipal utility District • SCS Engineers • Seahold Consulting • Sempra Utilities • Shell Energy North America •
Sojitz Canada Corporation • southern California Edison • Southern Cross Agricultural Developments • Stedin • Stoel Rives • Sustainable Conservation • Synagro • Terasen Gas • Tetra Tech
Bioenergy • The Climate Trust • The Dow Chemical Company • The University of Tokyo Edge Capital • University of California at Davis • USDA Rural Development Ð California • uTs Bioenergy
• Venture Engineering • Vogelsang • Westport Fuel Systems • Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati • Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation • Xebec Adsorption
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3. “The content of the presentations and discussions was on-point
with current pressing issues in the industry. It was very useful to
hear from others in the same industry and talk about collaborating
to work towards addressing some of our common challenges”
Humboldt Waste Management Authority (attendee at Biogas USA 2010)
Day One: 11 October 2011 1.35 utility Biogas strategy
Biogas policies and markets •
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Overcoming the challenges of upgrading biogas for grid distribution
Biogas cleaning and upgrading to meet pipeline quality
Connectivity from project sites to end users
8.30 Registration welcome coffee • What available renewable premiums are encouraging biogas
PANEL
producers?
9.00 Chair’s opening remarks
• How does a developer get access to utility pipelines?
Ken Brennan, Senior Project Manager, Business Development,
9.10 Keynote Address: Promoting Biogas PgE
Development in California george Wiltsee, Manager, Biogas Procurement,
• Public Interest Energy Research program southern California Edison
• Other initiatives in California Ronald Kent, RD Project Manager,
• Regulatory challenges sempra utilities
Commissioner Jim Boyd, Vice Chair, Valentino Tiangco, Lead – Biomass and Senior Project Manager,
California Energy Commission sacramento Municipal utility District
Tom Maclean, Manager, Customer Renewable Energy Programs,
Puget sound Energy
9.25 Biogas Market Analysis
• What has been the market growth in the past 12 months? 2.50 Interactive discussion session with speakers
• Which are the growth areas in this sector?
• The unique features of doing business in the California and West 3.20 Networking refreshment break
Coast biogas markets
Paul greene, Chairman, 3.55 Biogas BiosNg for the Transport
American Biogas Council* sector
9.55 Interactive discussion session with speakers • Updates about regulation on air quality for the transportation sector
and their implications for biogas and BioSNG producers
10.15 Networking refreshment break
• What incentives are there in different states on the West Coast?
• Biomethane as a road transport fuel – challenges and opportunities
11.00 Legislation Policy • The NGV fuel market and it’s entry requirements
• What are the impacts of the Water Board facilitated co-digestion Dean saito, Manager, On Road Mobile Source,
PIER1 program in California?
south Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD)
• The new Biomass Energy Plan and how it is going to influence the
biogas industry Harrison Clay, President,
• Updates on the Farm Bill programs and production tax credits Clean Energy Renewable Fuels
• Landfill methane regulations and possibilities for grid connection
4.40 Interactive discussion session with speakers
Chris Voell, Program Manager, AgSTAR,
us EPA 5.00 Project Development Optimization
Rachel goldstein, Team Leader, Landfill Methane Outreach • Biogas production case studies from international markets
Program (LMOP), • Project success factors
us EPA • Learnings from other incentive schemes
Amanda Bilek, Energy Policy Specialist, • Plant design and construction considerations
great Plains institute* • Optimizing efficiency and yield
Craig Lewis, Executive Director, • Minimizing risk
• Technical evolution
Clean Coalition
göran Eriksson, Director, North America Sales, Purac
12.00 Interactive discussion session with speakers
5.30 Interactive discussion session with speakers
12.30 Networking lunch break
5.50 Close of day one networking drinks
Pre-Conference Training Course will explain, in clear and accessible language, the various processes and facilities
that exist (or are emerging) to turn biomass feedstocks and wastes into useful gas
introduction to Biogas fuel, heat and/or electrical power. It provides a completely independent, unbiased
and hype-free view of the industry, including both the opportunities and the barriers
10 October 2011 and problems yet to be overcome. No prior technical knowledge is required.
A concise, 1-day overview of biogas feedstocks, conversion processes, energy Your Tutor:
applications and markets Thomas M. Hintz is a partner in SeaHold, a business development
consulting firm. He is facilitating and implementing projects that unite the
A unique Opportunity to Learn: local biomass producers with the energy buying entities in order to provide
The energy potential and feedstock supply issues for biogas solutions using biomass as a source for renewable energy and greenhouse
Conversion processes and equipment practicalities gas reduction, while identifying carbon offset credits and other valuable revenue
Biogas supply chain costs and revenue generation options streams for project stakeholders. Thomas helped to inaugurate ‘cow gas’ in
Policies supporting the biogas business case California by delivering it to the natural gas grid and works with key entities in the
Examples of biogas projects in action (the good and the bad) Central and Northern California areas, for conceptual projects utilizing various forms
of biomass, as well as consulting with providers in Washington State for expanding
This is an excellent training session from a recognised expert in the field. It is facilities there.
essential for those new to the industry or in need of a refresher on the scientific and For full agenda details and further information please
technology principles of biogas, plus its usages and business case factors. The day visitwww.greenpoweracademy.com
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4. Great line up of speakers
DMJ Gas Marketing Consultants (attendee at Biogas USA 2010)
Day Two: 12 October 2011 2.00 Landfill Methane gas Energy (LFgE)
Project investment and •
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Procurement law and policy
LFGE project operation and maintenance
The reality of financing and operating costs
development • Lifecycle assessment for LFGE projects and potential financial and
non-financial benefits to the municipality
David H. Mauney, President,
8.30 Welcome coffee The Hunter group
9.00 Chair’s opening remarks 3.00 Interactive discussion session with speakers
9.10 Finance investment 3.30 Networking refreshment break
• Will CLEAN Programs/FITs be a key catalyst in facilitating growth in
the biogas sector?
3.50 Organic Recycling MsW Conversion
• Are subsidies and CLEAN Programs both needed to support a healthy • Maximizing the advantages of biogas in handling municipality waste
growth? • MSW collection, separation and pre-treatment for AD
• Trends in financial markets and types of finance (loan guarantee, • The potential for production of biogas from sewage treatment plants
debt finance, private equity) available for biogas projects • Different approaches for digestate from organic, industrial and
• Assessment criteria investors consider before putting money into household waste
projects • Thermal gasification pyrolysis for urban waste conversion
• Securing added revenue streams from carbon offsetting and tax Jacques Franco, Climate Change Technology,
credits CalRecycle - Department of Resources Recycling and
Kevin Maas, President, Recovery
Farm Power Northwest Lewis R. Nelson, Public Works Director,
Joel Levin, Vice President of Business Development, City of Tulare
Climate Action Reserve Alexander Helou, Bureau of Sanitation,
City of Los Angeles
10.10 Interactive discussion session with speakers
Paul Relis, Executive Vice President,
10.40 Networking refreshment break CRR
11.20 On-Farm AD 4.50 Interactive discussion session with speakers
• The challenges and opportunities of producing biogas from animal 5.20 Close of conference
manure at dairy/hog/poultry/fish farms on the West coast
Agenda correct at time of going to press
• Is co-digestion the only way to economic viability?
• Overcoming planning and permitting hurdles *awaiting final confirmation
• Key steps to achieving economies of scale for farm AD
• Feedstock selection, security and preconditions for co-digestion
Hanafi Fraval, Board Member,
Ag Biomass Center
Albert straus, Founder President,
straus Family Creamery
John Fiscalini, Owner,
Fiscalini Farms
Nettie R. Drake, Managing Partner,
Ag Power Development
12.20 Interactive discussion session with speakers
12.50 Networking lunch break
Post-Conference seminar Timings:
8.30 Registration welcome coffee
Biomethane for Transportation 9.00 Chair’s opening remarks
13 October 2011 1.00 Networking lunch break
Key Topics: 2.00 Depart for site visit
Policy incentives for encouraging biomethane for transportation 5.30 Return close of seminar
Competition for end use of biogas with power generation projects
Price competition of biogas with conventional NG Ride Drive showcase:
The economics of producing renewable LNG on a small scale Co-located with the Biomethane for Transportation Seminar this area will
Connectivity issues for CNG feature both major manufacturers and independent alternative vehicle
Compression and distribution technology companies, delivering vehicles operating on biogas (natural, hydro, synthetic).
Vehicle technology for NG: what is here and what is coming? If you are interested in showcasing a vehicle please contact sean Budway on
The potential for fleets run on RNG and the decision factors of fleet +1 702 430 1832 or sean.budway@greenpowerconferences.com
managers
Biomethane opportunities for public and private waste managers For full agenda details and further information please visit the event website.
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5. The market is just starting and will boom
Osaka Gas Engineering (attendee at Biogas USA 2010)
sponsorship Exhibition Opportunities
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If you sell biogas services or technologies, sponsoring or
exhibiting at this event will provide a cost effective way
for you to meet many potential clients in person.
The event will provide:
1st class lead generation: meet companies looking for
biogas solutions and technologies
Enhanced brand profile: pre-event promotional
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Excellent publicity: gain an incredible amount of
presence from on site promotion
A cost-effective marketing solution: our development
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Sponsorship options offering varying levels of branding
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□ 4 Day Package (10-13 October 2011) US$3599
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