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The Governor's Energy Efficiency Summit: Strengthening Business Through Energy Savings

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SUMMIT OVERVIEW:

Come learn from the experts about how best to reduce your energy costs and improve your business operation. Share your own views and needs while hearing from others about how they made changes that have improved their businesses while helping protect one of Maine’s key assets, our environment. 

ENERGY EXPO:

The Summit will include displays of energy-efficient technologies and services that can help you make the best energy choices for your business. (The fee for exhibiting is $300. If you are interested in exhibiting, please indicate this on the registration form and a member of the Planning Committee will contact you.)

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Representatives from the following sectors:

Industry, Finance and Banking, Small business, Entrepreneurs, Builders, Energy Sector, Government Agencies, Manufacturing, Schools and Hospitals, Environmental Organizations

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Thomas R. Casten, Chair, Recycled Energy Development LLC

TCastenThomas R. Casten has spent 30 years developing highly efficient decentralized energy recycling projects. He was founding president and CEO of Trigen Energy Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange corporation and its predecessors from 1977 through 2000.  He served until 2006 as founding chair & CEO of Primary Energy Ventures LLC, an Oak Brook, Illinois-based firm with a Toronto Stock Exchange traded subsidiary, Primary Energy Recycling Corp. Tom’s book, Turning Off the Heat (Prometheus Press, 1998) explains how the world can save money and pollution. He recently co-authored a chapter in Energy Myth and American Society, Thirteen Myths (Sovacool & Brown), challenging the assumption that the U.S. electric system is optimal.