USDA-DOE Announce Additional Key Note Speakers for Review

Additional keynote speakers have been confirmed for Advancing Renewable Energy: An American Rural Renaissance. This conference is co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and is designed to create partnerships and strategies that will accelerate commercialization of renewable energy industries and distribution systems, the crux of President Bush’s Advanced Energy Initiative. Advancing Renewable Energy, is scheduled to take place October 10-12, 2006, at the America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri.

Added to the growing list of distinguished keynote speakers are: Red Cavaney, President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Petroleum Institute; Charles Holliday, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dupont; Patrick Wood, Chairman of the North American Advisory Board of Airtricity, Inc. and former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and Matthew Simmons, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Simmons and Company International, a specialized energy investment banking firm.

Leaders from government and industry will address renewable energy topics such as building supply and distribution; encouraging demand; adapting and building infrastructure; creating effective market models and partnerships; what USDA and DOE are doing to advance renewable energy; and other timely topics.

The following are conference keynote speakers to date:

U.S. Dept. of Energy