This audio conference will:
- Review BCAP’s intent, goals & subsidy payment provisions
- Examine circumstances that lead to early suspension of “Matching Payments”
- Summarize proposed changes in BCAP rules & how they might impact your business
- Discuss future BCAP Matching Payment program options & how you could benefit
- Analyze potential Matching Payment options & impact on various sectors
- Evaluate carbon-based Matching Payments – Realistic or not?
- Provide an update on key BCAP issues/changes/announcements
Sector participants are aggressively seeking to understand and leverage BCAP to increase net revenues and grow their businesses. Because the early implementation phase was brief and now on hold, determining how best to exploit BCAP has not been easy. There are many questions – the answers to which can significantly impact your revenue and potential growth.
In February 2010, the Matching Payment subsidy for the collection, harvest, storage and delivery of biomass energy feedstocks were suspended pending development of new rules after public comments were taken. For many, this holding pattern presents a significant challenge that seriously impacted their business. Comments are in, and new rules are in the making. You can better plan for the future by considering potential program changes based on proposals that have been revealed.
Our speaker, a national biomass energy sector leader, educator, and policy analyst, will share key insights, and analysis, to help sector companies understand potential future Matching Payment options, allowing you to better assess, and plan, for BCAP program changes, and the how they might affect your business, revenue and future growth. Stay up-to-date on key BCAP issues, proposed changes, and analysis, to best exploit the program, driving your company’s revenue and growth.
Who should attend:
- Biomass Fuel Producers
- Tribal Administrators, Council Members, Forestry/Fuel Supervisors
- TIMO’s
- Forest Products Companies
- Wood Brokers/Traders/Buyers
- Executive Directors
- Forest Landowners
- Consulting Foresters
- Renewable Energy/Biomass/Forestry Lobbyists
- Timber/Pellet/Exporters/Importers
Speaker Biography:
Dr. Jay O’Laughlin has contributed significantly to advancing the biomass to energy sector. His leadership, expertise, and capabilities as a professional educator, frequent industry speaker, and prolific writer, have positively impacted bio-energy policy, legislation and education.
Dr. O’Laughlin is Professor of Forestry and Policy Sciences, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, where he serves as the full-time Director, College of Natural Resources Policy Analysis Group. The University heats the main campus by burning 20,000 dry tons of biomass per year, and has been doing so for more than 20 years.
Jay was elected Fellow of the Society of American Foresters in 2000, and is actively engaged in national SAF policy affairs, including the forestry profession’s stance on biomass utilization. He is a charter member of the Western Governors’ Association – Forest Health Advisory Committee and is Co-chair of its Woody Biomass Utilization & Energy Production Subcommittee. Furthermore, he chairs the Forestry Task Force for the Idaho Strategic Energy Alliance, also serving on the Alliance’s Carbon Issues Task Force as well as the Idaho Carbon Sequestration Advisory Committee.
Before moving to Idaho in 1989, Dr. O’Laughlin taught and conducted research in forest policy and forest resource economics at Texas A&M University. He has a BS in business finance from the University of Denver, and earned masters and doctoral degrees in forestry from the University of Minnesota.
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