Micro Fuel Cell Regulations, Standards and Compliance (Meeting and Implementing Present & Future Rulings)

Increase your understanding and productivity through this interactive learning experience:

  • Demystify the latest domestic and international standards, codes and regulations

  • Learn product development procedures to meet future regulation compliance

  • Discuss codes and standards of development and manufacturing processes prior to market

  • Tackle certification and third party compliance processes

  • Optimize negotiating skills for complex agreements with regulatory agencies

  • Discuss how to overcome regulatory hurdles

  • Examine current safety requirements for air and ground transportation and hazardous materials

Topics Include:
  • Regulatory Frictions
  • Developing regulation without causing inhibition
  • Regulatory policy and public funding come together
  • Overcoming regulatory hurdles
  • Siting
  • Transportation
  • Directing policy by directing money
  • Settling Contracts in Uncertain Regulatory Environments
  • Breaking down complex agreements to their component parts
  • Dealing with regulatory changes in long-term agreements
  • Getting the best deal from regulators
  • Standards for Micro Fuel Cells and Fuels and Associated Equipment
  • Codes and Standards (C&S) Development and Product Compliance
  • ANSI and other domestic C&S development processes
  • IEC development processes
  • Business Compliance
  • Who are Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) and what aspects of acceptance do they have jurisdiction over?
  • Developing Fuel Cell Products Within the Guidelines
  • Transportation and Safety
  • HAZMAT
  • Regulatory determination of status as “hazardouswaste”
  • Legal framework: statutory authority and jurisdiction; scope of agency regulations
  • IATA-DGRs: definitions; air shipment acceptance criteria; documentation and packaging
  • DOT hazardous material classification and proper shipping name selection

About Your Instructors:

Jim Boehringer, CECM, Dangerous Goods International Training Center, has 35 years of domestic/international transportation operations management and enforcement experience. Formerly he was owner/president of the Regulations Compliance Company, a hazardous materials training firm.

David Haberman, Principal, IF, LLC, is one of the leading experts in the field of hydrogen development and its applications to both the private and public sector in the world today. In 1998, Mr. Haberman was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy to represent the perspectives of commercial product developers and safety on the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel (HTAP).

Harry Jones, Lead Engineer, has been with Underwriters Laboratories,  Inc. (UL) for the past 32 years and is currently UL’s lead engineer for fuel cells and hydrogen equipment. He is a member of over 30 committees working to develop codes and standards for fuel cells and hydrogen.

Brad N. Mondschein, Principal, Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P. C. Hartford and DC, is chair of the firm’s Utilities Practice Group and the firm’s Fuel Cell & Alternative Energy Practice Group. Mr. Mondschein represents fuel cell original equipment manufacturers, component manufacturers, end-users in installation and maintenance contract negotiations, siting, engineering, design and construction matters, of fuel cells both locally and nationally.

Dave Sturgess, President, Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C. Irvine and Vancouver, is Chairman of its Venture Capital and Emerging Companies Practice Group and a member of its Fuel Cell and Alternative Energy Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in the areas of general business law and is counsel to numerous small and medium-sized businesses.

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