Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization

Workshop for Basic Research Needs for

Solar Energy Utilization

Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center

Bethesda, Maryland

April 18–21, 2005

Agenda for Plenary Sessions

Plenary Opening Session — Monday, April 18, 2005

Time Topic Speaker or Location

7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast Salon E

8:30 – 8:35 a.m. Welcome and Workshop Charter Pat Dehmer, Director, Office of Basic Energy

Sciences

8:35 – 8:55 a.m. A Global Perspective on the Role of Solar Energy as a

Primary Energy Source

Nathan Lewis, Workshop Chair, California

Institute of Technology, and George Crabtree,

Workshop Co-chair, Argonne National

Laboratory

8:55 – 9:25 a.m. Overview of DOE/EERE Solar Energy Technologies

Program, Related EERE Efforts, and Basic Research

Needs

Jeff Mazer, DOE Energy Efficiency and

Renewable Energy

9:25 – 9:55 a.m. Solar-Renewable Energy for a Greenhouse Planet Martin Hoffert, Professor, Physics Dept.,

New York University

9:55 – 10:25 a.m. An Industrial Perspective on the Opportunities and

Challenges Involved with the Widespread Use of Solar

Energy in Global Power Production

Tom Feist, GE Global Research

10:25 – 10:45 a.m. Break Salon E

10:45 – 11:10 a.m. Solar Electricity Panel Overview Arthur Nozik, Senior Research Fellow, National

Renewable Energy Laboratory

11:10 – 11:35 a.m. Solar Fuels Panel Overview Michael Wasielewski, Professor, Chemistry

Dept., Northwestern University

11:35 a.m. – 12 noon Cross-cutting Panel Overview Paul Alivisatos, Director, Materials Science

Division, Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory

12:00 – 12:15 p.m. Closing Remarks for Opening Plenary Session Nathan Lewis, Workshop Chair, California

Institute of Technology

12:15 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Salon D