{"id":30984,"date":"2016-08-04T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=30984"},"modified":"2016-08-04T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:27:21","slug":"local-officials-gather-to-discuss-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=30984","title":{"rendered":"Local officials gather to discuss renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30987\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/StateofRenewables_July-2016-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30987\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/StateofRenewables_July-2016-1-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"From left (back row): Nancy Kunkle, Smart Energy Initiative (SEI) Program Manager; Hayley Book, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection; Paul Speigel, Practical Energy Solutions and SEI Board Vice-Chair; Steve Krug, Krug Architects and SEI Programming Committee Chair; Bill Ronayne, Delaware Valley Heating &amp; Air Conditioning and SEI Board Chair. From left (Front row): Abby Watson, Gamesa, Women in Wind Energy and A Renewable America; Lisa Jacobson, Business Council for Sustainable Energy.\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/StateofRenewables_July-2016-1-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/StateofRenewables_July-2016-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/StateofRenewables_July-2016-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/StateofRenewables_July-2016-1-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/StateofRenewables_July-2016-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left (back row): Nancy Kunkle, Smart Energy Initiative (SEI) Program Manager; Hayley Book, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection; Paul Speigel, Practical Energy Solutions and SEI Board Vice-Chair; Steve Krug, Krug Architects and SEI Programming Committee Chair; Bill Ronayne, Delaware Valley Heating &amp; Air Conditioning and SEI Board Chair. From left (Front row): Abby Watson, Gamesa, Women in Wind Energy and A Renewable America; Lisa Jacobson, Business Council for Sustainable Energy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>EXTON \u2014 The Smart Energy Initiative of Southeast Pennsylvania hosted a breakfast last week to discuss the state of renewable energy in the immediate region.<\/p>\n<p>There was a panel discussion with <span class=\"s1\">Hayley Book,\u00a0Deputy Policy Director, <span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dep.pa.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Abby Watson, Government Affairs and Commnunications Manager, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesacorp.com\/en\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Gamesa<\/span><\/a> &amp; <span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofwindenergy.org\/\">Women in Wind Energy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">Lisa Jacobson, President, <span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcse.org\/\">The Business Council for Sustainable Energy<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The discussions included an overview of solar and wind projects in the state, how the regional energy sector can help achieve Pennsylvania climate goals, current trends and innovations in renewable energy and wind investment trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXTON \u2014 The Smart Energy Initiative of Southeast Pennsylvania hosted a breakfast last week to discuss the state of renewable energy in the immediate region. There was a panel discussion with Hayley Book,\u00a0Deputy Policy Director, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection,\u00a0Abby Watson, Government Affairs and Commnunications Manager, Gamesa &amp; Women in Wind Energy\u00a0and\u00a0Lisa Jacobson, President, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8706,8705,8704],"class_list":["post-30984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-conference","tag-renewable-energy","tag-smart-energy-initiative-of-southeast-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30988,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30984\/revisions\/30988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}