Batter up!

Baseball season opens this week and I'll be doing a little pitching of my own. On Thursday I will moderate a panel discussion on energy for the Portland Business Alliance's sustainability day. Thor Hinckley, Tomas Endicott and Troy Gagliano will discuss renewable energy development in Oregon on Thursday, April 05 at 2:30 p.m. in the Flag Room of the World Trade Center in Portland (PGE headquarters). I will try to make my questions for Thor harder to even out his home field advantage.

Tomas Endicott is a co-founder and managing partner of SeQuential Biofuels, LLC, which developed Oregon’s first and only commercial biodiesel production plant in Salem. Thor Hinckley has been the manager of PGE’s renewable power program since October 2000. He is currently project manager for the development of PGE’s new Renewable Future renewable power offering and oversees the installation of PGE’s solar power projects. And Troy Gagliano is a senior policy specialist for the Renewable Northwest Project focused on project siting, regulatory issues in Idaho and Oregon, media relations, and represents RNP on the Energy Trust of Oregon's Renewable Advisory Committee.