Celebrating the Success of Women Leaders

Florida's Women in Energy Leadership Forum
https://flwomeninenergy.com/

I have the privilege to be in attendance at this fantastic conference on leadership in the energy business.

“Florida’s Women in Energy Leadership Forum” celebrates the success women leaders in the energy industry have demonstrated in growing Florida’s economy and diversifying an already tremendous workforce.  In so doing, this Forum highlights the positive impact of the electric and natural gas industries as large employers and economic developers.  The leaders in these industries have important obligations to sustain large scale infrastructure efforts for the benefit of those customers they serve and support Florida’s growth as the 3rd largest state in the country.  Exciting and important, this industry attracts world class talent.

Although largely attended by women in the industry, this conference would be valuable for anyone looking to gain insights into leadership methods as well as major industry issues such as potential disrupters, risks, financing considerations.  

It is remarkable to see so many C-level executives gathered and willing to take so much time to share their knowledge and experience, and to advocate for a stronger, more diverse workforce.  Lila Jaber and her team are to be commended for leading this effort.

I will report here on the ideas that I think you will find interesting as this conference proceeds over the next couple days.

Clean Energy from the Sun

Sustainability day for the Tallahassee Active Lifelong Leaders (TALL), at the Tallahassee Senior Center.  In this Facebook link, you can see Ben Cowart and me giving a presentation on City Electric's clean energy and conservation programs.  We appreciate the invitation from TALL and the Senior Center.

Self-driving car coming soon

Sooner, rather than later.

Tesla Motors promises to have commercialized auto-pilot driving much sooner than the competition. And why not? Tesla was way ahead on 100% battery-driven performance vehicles also.

Also, see the article on the electrified highway - link in my Aug 15 post.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/tesla-starts-betatests-of-its-selfdriving-technology/?utm_source=carsthatthink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=081915

-- David Byrne

Electric Vehicle Charged by the Sun - EV by PV!

by David Byrne


More and more we are seeing dedicated parking spaces for Electric Vehicles, like these at the University of Central Florida.  Going a step further, this site includes Solar Photovoltaic (PV) electric generation, so you can charge your EV with PV!  Florida sunshine supplies the energy for up to 4 EVs while parked under this PV array, which is located on the east side of UCF's Memory Mall. 

In addition to electric power for car charging, the PV arrays also provide shaded EV parking for much of the day -- a nice benefit during our hot weather!  No one's taking advantage at the time I took these pictures (the cars on either side are not in the dedicated spaces under the PV array) -- but it was an early on a summer morning while I was visit with my son Nathan for his student orientation, and the campus wasn't very busy.
 

I have another visit to UCF soon, and I promise to come back with more technical details on this project.

#ucf #ev #pv #solar