Statewide, non-profit Green Energy Ohio has organized a second, in-depth Ohio conference focusing on large-scale solar electric installations .

The 19 expert speakers at GEO’s Bowling Green Conference: Building Big Solar Across Ohio are expected to attract community leaders, solar developers, electric utilities, financiers, installers, and contractors along with manufacturers, retailers, government officials, educators, farmers and consumers.

See registration and details on GEO’s website. Early bird registration ends Aug. 22.

Bowling Green, AMP and Next Era are now constructing Ohio’s largest solar field (20 megawatts) near Bowling Green which will highlight this conference. Other large municipal power solar installations at Minster (4.3 megawatts) and Clyde, Ohio (3.6 megawatts) will be featured along with new solar deployment to Ohio’s county governments and rural electric co-operatives.

The GEO News Magazine Summer Edition will also release a new survey of solar energy installations in every county of Ohio and a new listing of the top 25 largest solar arrays in the state. This first-ever county-by-county survey will also be discussed at the conference.

See the first-ever study of Ohio’s 25 largest solar arrays in GEO’s Winter 2015 magazine.

Speakers:

David Dwyer, president, American Renewable Energy, Columbus

Paul Fiser, city manager, City of Clyde, Clyde

Mark Frye, president, Palmer Energy Company, Toledoo

Matt Handel, vice president, Solar, Distributed Generation & Energy, Next Era Energy Resources, New York

Donald Harrod, utility director, Village of Minster

Earlene Kilpatrick, director, Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce, Bowling Green

Neocles Leontis, chair, Bowling Green’s Green Team, Professor of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University

Cara Maxey, DECA teacher, Bowling Green High School, Bowling Green

Brian O’Connell, P.E., utility director, Bowling Green Municipal Utilities, Bowling Green

Harry Phillips, marketing director, American Municipal Power (AMP), Columbus

Emily Sautter, wind program manager, Green Energy Ohio, Cincinnati

Donald Scherer, emeritus professor of philosophy, Bowling Green State University

Teresa Smith, business development manager, Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority

Bill Spratley, executive director, Green Energy Ohio, Columbus, Ohio

Daryl Stockburger, assistant utility director, Bowling Green Municipal Utilities

David Wilhelm, partner & chief strategic officer, Hecate Energy, Columbus

Mark Wilkerson, vice president, strategicpartnerships, Clean Energy Collective, Chicago

Ben Wilson, manager Power Delivery Engineering, Buckeye Power, Columbus

John Witte, president, Integrated Solar LTD, Maumee