{"589183":{"#nid":"589183","#data":{"type":"event","title":"The Carbon Conscious Business Series Presents:\u00a0Norrie McKenzie, Georgia Power","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMr. Norrie McKenzie, Georgia Power Company\u0026rsquo;s Vice President of\u0026nbsp;Renewable Development, will discuss Georgia Power\u0026rsquo;s renewable\u0026nbsp;generation resources and its plans through 2020. The\u0026nbsp;presentation will include the economics of utility scale\u0026nbsp;renewable generation versus distributed generation, the legacy of\u0026nbsp;residential electrical rate making, the renewable options Georgia\u0026nbsp;Power offers its customers, and the things a customer should\u0026nbsp;consider when making a renewable decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENorrie joined Southern Company in 1999 to lead the company\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;natural gas procurement for its growing gas-fired generation\u0026nbsp;fleet. He was selected as Vice President of renewable development\u0026nbsp;in August 2013. A native of Fort Valley, Georgia, Norrie earned\u0026nbsp;his bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in mechanical engineering from the\u0026nbsp;Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ray-c-anderson-center-for-sustainable-business\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERay C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E was founded in 2013 to act as a catalyst and connector, bringing together\u0026nbsp;students, research faculty, companies, and entrepreneurs to\u0026nbsp;create an environment where business-driven solutions to\u0026nbsp;sustainability challenges can take shape and thrive. In all,\u0026nbsp;Scheller provides students unparalleled breadth in environmental\u0026nbsp;sustainability, ethics, corporate social responsibility, social\u0026nbsp;entrepreneurship, and values-based leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERSVP: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/MUlmnHiAtYgCeANr2\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/MUlmnHiAtYgCeANr2\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERay C Anderson Center\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Under the Georgia Sun\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Under the Georgia Sun\u0022"}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2017-03-23 17:08:44","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:12:18","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-04-17T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-04-17T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-04-17T19:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-04-17 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-04-17 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-04-17 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ray-c-anderson-center-for-sustainable-business\/index.html","title":"Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business"},{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/MUlmnHiAtYgCeANr2","title":"RSVP to Attend"}],"groups":[{"id":"1274","name":"Scheller College of Business"},{"id":"1182","name":"General"},{"id":"1316","name":"Green Buzz"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"167089","name":"Scheller College of Business"},{"id":"166920","name":"Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kjersti.lukens@scheller.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKjersti A Lukens\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-385-5221\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}