Learn about gas bans, Ithaca’s cutting edge energy codes and how towns & cities can decarbonize their existing buildings!
Speakers:
Amy Turner – Senior Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School
Nick Goldsmith – Sustainability Coordinator for the City of Ithaca and the Town of Ithaca
Mark Thielking – Director of Energy and Sustainability for the Town of Bedford.
Learn from supporters and industry experts on the new regulations released by the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) and how you can participate as a supporter in the upcoming online stakeholder sessions.
Speakers:
Anne Reynolds, Executive Director of Alliance for Clean Energy New York
Giuseppina Agovino, Founding Member of Friends of Flint Mine Solar
Ryan Piche, County Manager at Lewis County
Jessica Enzmann, Organizing Representative at Sierra Club
Learn how NYS can greatly ramp up solar power generation to provide inexpensive, abundant, and reliable electricity on a large scale. Dr. Richard Perez will be presenting his research about how solar power has the technical capabilities to achieve this goal and what is needed to ensure that this transformation will be successful.
We will also be very briefly discussing the new proposed regulations from the NYS Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) about siting major renewable energy facilities, including for solar power, and next steps in this process.
This is a technical dialogue/town hall discussing how pairing solar and wind energy projects with energy storage can help New York meet its ambitious 70 percent by 2030 clean energy requirement about projects that pair wholesale renewable energy with energy storage. There is growing interest in large-scale projects that pair batteries with solar power or pair batteries with wind turbines developing new “hybrid” (solar and storage or wind and storage) projects in the state, as the costs of battery storage continue to rapidly decline. But as often the case with any new technology, the rules often need time to catch up with the innovation. We will discuss what the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) has already done to facilitate renewables + storage projects; what wind and solar developers would like to further change regarding NYISO rules; and the thorny questions that remain about how to best balance the need for energy storage with efficient operation of the grid.
Speakers include:
Dr. William Acker, Executive Director of NY-BEST
Dave Gahl , Senior Director of State Affairs, Northeast, SEIA
John Broadbeck, Senior Manager of Transmission, EDPR
Mike DeSocio, Senior Manager of Market Design at the NYISO
Pete Fuller, Principal of Autumn Lane Energy Consulting
Moderator: Anne Reynolds, Executive Director, ACE NY
Solar developers and farmers join forces to implement ways to supply clean power to the NY electric grid.
Speakers will discuss the benefits solar brings to NY farmers and wildlife, particularly our pollinators!
– Jeremy Verratti: Verratti Farms, Hartland NY and USES Steering Committee
– Rob Davis, Director, Center for Pollinators in Energy
Learn how we can meet our energy needs across NYS with clean heating and cooling technology!
Speakers will discuss shared geothermal loop systems, thermal infrastructure ownership options and how we can finance getting to scale.
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Speakers include:
Cullen Kasunic from BlocPower
Zeyneb Magavi & Audrey Schulman from HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team)
Stuart Yanow from Orca energy
Owen Brady from National Grid
Speakers will discuss the types of benefits available to New York communities that solar projects provide and how to submit a comment to the Public Service Commission on their proceeding about the Renewable Energy Facility Host Community Benefit Program! Click the link to submit a comment: https://usesny.org/psccommentcommunitybenefit/
Panelists include:
Kevin Campbell, Development Manager – EDF-Renewables
Kate Millar, Manager, Renewable Development -Invenergy
Rikki Cason, Manager – Cypress Creek
David Alicea, NY Organizing Representative -Sierra Club
Dan Spitzer – Attorney at Hodgson Ross
Haylee Ferrington, USES Steering Committee – Moderator
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Tune in for information on New York’s community solar and hydroelectric projects, updates on the Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER), and the policies needed to move forward to improve solar energy in New York. Our speakers will be available to answer questions and provide information on what you can do to get involved in the renewable revolution!
Speakers:
Juan Parra, Solar One Community Solar Program Manager
Sarah Bower, Natural Power Group Co-Owner
Cal Trumann, SunCommon Solar Community Organizer
Emmett Smith, Northern Power Light Founder
Jessica Azulay, Alliance for a Green Economy Executive Director
What Will it Take to Achieve New York’s Renewable Energy Goals? Join us for an online teach-in with Anne Reynolds, the Executive Director of Alliance for Clean Energy New York (ACE NY) to find out how large-scale renewable energy is vital to ending our reliance on fossil fuels. Reynolds will speak to the challenges that wind and solar project developers face in our state and the next steps for New York’s renewable future.
The 664 solar panels on the rooftop of Bread Alone Bakery in Lake Katrine, NY produce 196 Kilowatts of electricity during the day. Checkout this short video to learn more!