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Chad Blevins
Chad Blevins holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations with Highest Honors from Saint Edward’s University in Austin, TX. He is a proud Air Force Reservist that was recognized as an Honor Graduate after completing “boot-camp” at age 31. He went on to train as an Engineering Apprentice and achieved the level of Distinguished Graduate, while also serving as the top student leader for a Detachment of over 200 Airmen. Every day, Chad strives to live by the Air Force Core Values: Integrity First | Service Before Self | Excellence in All We Do Chad is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, and also holds a Certificate in Energy Technology & Policy from the University of Texas.
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Posts by Chad Blevins
Today: Free Webinar on the Strategies to Streamline MDM Projects
Nov 4th
Don’t forget! Join us today for the free webinar: Strategies to Streamline Your Smart Meter Data Management Projects. Learn from some real-life case studies and see how other utilities have found ways to streamline their projects.
Can’t make the live broadcast? Register online to receive an alert when the recorded webinar is available on greentechmedia.com!
When: Thursday, November 4, 2010 Time: 12:00 pm EDT/9:00 am PDT Register: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=259774&s=1&k=56BC54C68C18A07AC33BEBA6F4053F79
Webinar Summary:With so many new technologies coming into play in your IT infrastructure, it is hard to keep your team staffed and trained with the skills needed to get the systems up and keep them More >
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Loading ...Opportunity for FREE training: PV Technical Sales Certification Pathway, Austin 10/30
Oct 27th
ImagineSolar is offering a PV Sales and Marketing (4)-hour workshop Saturday, 10/30 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at JATC, 4000 Caven Rd. (google it for directions. Basically, just south of Ben White Blvd. just east of I-35)
This class is the first in our new PV Technical Sales Certification Pathway course series. Here is the offer: John Hoffner, host of KOOP “Shades of Green” Thursday 10/28 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. is GIVING AWAY FREE PASSES to this class to ANYONE WHO CALLS IN DURING THE PROGRAM!!! (Normally this class is $199.00 !!!) As many know, John and Michael Kuhn, President and CEO More > (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...DOE Webinar: How to Design a Community Energy Alliance (1 NOV)
Oct 27th
U.S. Dept of Energy’s EECBG/SEP Technical Assistance Program Webinar – How to Design a Community Energy Alliance
Monday, November 1, 2010 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM EDT
How to Design a Community Energy Alliance
November 1, 2010
2:00 – 3:15pm EDT
Webcasts
The DOE offers free online training to help you improve the energy performance of your organization. No travel, no lost time out of the office, and no cost – The DOE makes it easy to get the information you need, today. Join your colleagues to better understand how the DOE can help you lower operating costs, improve your energy management More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Right Now: Webinar ― Using RETScreen To Identify the Most Promising Clean Energy Projects
Oct 27th
Learn about a FREE tool for clean energy project analysis!
Webinar ― Using RETScreen To Identify the Most Promising Clean Energy Projects October 27, 2010Here you will learn about the upcoming TAP Webinar that will present on October 27, 2010, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Technical Assistance Program (TAP) for state and local officials.
At this Webinar you will hear about RETScreen, which is a leading online software tool that can help state and local officials quickly conduct feasibility analyses for clean energy project. This software is relatively easy to use is free of charge. It can therefore significantly More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Texas’ Wind Transmission Project Keeps Rolling — Wind Energy | The Texas Tribune
Sep 8th
by Kate Galbraith September 8, 2010
This is the first part in a three-part series examining Texas’ $5 billion build-out of transmission lines to support wind power, which is encountering increasing opposition.
Last week, to cheers from a crowded courtroom, commissioners in Denton Countyunanimously passed a resolution opposing the construction of a big new transmission line through their county — even though it would carry clean, renewable wind power. Later today, the company that wants to build the line will file a stack of paperwork refuting some of the objections and asking Texas regulators for permission to proceed anyway.
It’s the latest episode in the marathon More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Arithmetic trumps Ideology: Digging Into Conservative Misconceptions of Energy Costs
Sep 2nd
September 2, 2010 in Energy & Fuel
Here is an excellent guest post by an energy veteran and businessman on the costs of clean energy compared to old, dirty energy.
We’ve been writing on clean energy more and more these days. It is clearly one way to address global climate change, air pollution, and water pollution. And with another offshore oil production facility catching fire today, the sense of urgency to switch over from “dirty” to “clean” energy is growing.
In this guest post from Tom Rooney, President and CEO of SPG Solar in Novato, California we get a deeper look into the real costs of energy. Tom has More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Energy Storage: Can It Replace Transmission? (KEMA)
Aug 31st
Aug 31, 2010
By Rick Fioravanti
Grid-scale storage offers potential benefits to transmission and distribution systems of utilities in regulated and market environments. These benefits derive from cost reductions due to the time and location shifting of energy for congestion relief, reliability via enhanced stability and outage response, and incremental voltage support—once the storage device and its power electronics are in place.
More from SGN’s Energy Storage channel:
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Grid Storage Systems Get $60M Boost from DOE. But Where’s the ROI?
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Community Energy Storage and the Smart Grid: A Powerful Union
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Energy Storage: Making It Work with Generation Applications
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U.S. Senate Gets Serious About Energy Storage With Tax Credit More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Smart Grid and Renewable Technologies May See Double Digit Growth in Five Years
Aug 28th
Aug 27, 2010
Renewable energy technologies, fueled by worldwide government support in the form of stimulus programs and other incentives, have improved the global economic outlook with new jobs and industry. Six will hit double digit growth in the next five years — and change our lifestyle, according to a series of market studies from SBI Energy. Here’s what the industrial market research company found:
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Car Companies and Utilities Face Similar Challenges in the Coming of Age of Smart Technologies
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Increased Demand and Industrial Growth Pushing Global Spending on T&D
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Well said!: The Myth of Cheap Fossil Fuels –> Hindering SMART Choices
Aug 23rd
by Ralf Sigrist, Nordex USA Published: August 20, 2010
Recently, when Senator Harry Reid put forth a “spill bill” rather than an energy bill, my theory that the energy debate in this country has been framed upside down seemed to be confirmed.
Arguments for renewable energy legislation have mixed messages on jobs creation with those of climate change, national security, energy independence and environmental disaster. After two years of debate and millions spent in lobbying, no one has been persuaded.
Why? Because clean energy got stuck on the wrong side of the cost debate. Guardians of the carbon economy have promoted the axiom that More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Blevins Course Schedule: Energy & Earth Resources, University of Texas, Fall 2010
Aug 21st
You are scheduled for 3 classes and 9 hours for Fall 2010
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Course
Status
Meeting Information
Title
26284
EER 396
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9:00- 12:00
SRH 3.355
POLIT ECONOMY OF GLOBAL ENERGY
26270
EER 396
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2:00- 5:00P
JGB 3.222
DECISION PATHWAYS
26285
EER 396
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3:30- 6:30P
CPE 2.210
ENERGY & EARTH RESOURCE ECON
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