Engine Technology Forum to Host Virtual Event Exploring Renewable Fuel Use in Backup Power Generation
The Engine Technology Forum (ETF) will host the virtual event Backup Power Solutions and Renewable Fuels, a Critical Piece of the Energy Equation on December 14 at 2 p.m. Eastern. All interested parties are welcome to attend free of charge.
The upcoming event will feature Greg Lamberg from Peterson Power Systems, Matt Leuck from Neste, and Tammy Klein from Transport Energy Strategies. Presenters will discuss how internal combustion engines and renewable low carbon fuels are a key part of the nation’s energy strategy.
“Our electric power system faces unprecedented challenges including necessary transmission line upgrades, frequent natural disasters and weather-related events, as well as an overall greater reliance on electricity. When you add on the transition to more intermittent renewable fuels like wind and solar, ensuring continuous electrical power to communities and businesses is even more important than before,” said ETF’s Executive Director Allen Schaeffer.
Recent reports from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. indicate that a large portion of the North American bulk power system is at risk of insufficient electricity supply during peak winter conditions. Prolonged, wide-area cold snaps threaten the reliable performance of bulk power system generation and the availability of the natural gas used by many generators.
In the Western United States, devastating wildfires shut off grid power and threaten communities, as was the case in Del Norte, California where they successfully and rapidly deployed backup generators to restore vital electrical power to the 27,000 residents.
As the nation pursues aggressive climate change mitigation strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it must simultaneously ensure resilience and reliability from natural disasters and other events to ensure access to life-saving electricity. The use of low carbon renewable fuels and internal combustion engines in backup generators brings a proven means to ensure continuous electrical supply with lower greenhouse gas emissions.
There is no cost to attend the virtual event, however registration is required through this link: https://enginetechforum.webex.com/weblink/register/r54cffeba26ef301843d3f368b17498dd
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.