Each month, the Energy Exchange rounds up a list of top clean energy conferences around the country. Our list includes conferences at which experts from the EDF Clean Energy Program will be speaking, plus additional events that we think our readers may benefit from marking on their calendars.
Top clean energy conferences featuring EDF experts in January:
January 19-21: The Food-Energy-Water Nexus (Washington, DC)
Speaker: Kate Zerrenner, Manager
- One thousand innovative thinkers in science, technology, policy, governance, business, education, and civil society will gather to work across traditional boundaries and address big questions:
- How will we feed the 9.6 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 while also meeting their needs for water and energy and improving the environment?
- What are the opportunities to improve water and energy efficiency and reduce food waste such that every improvement in one area yields gains in all areas?
- What are the strategies for resilience in the face of increased climate variability and other environmental changes?
- How do we unleash scientific talent, technological advances, human ingenuity and entrepreneurialism, with wise public policy to meet essential human needs and restore the earth’s environment, both regionally and globally?
The conference will emphasize putting ideas into action – moving forward on policy and practice. This is a conference designed to challenge thinking and spur creativity. Participants will take away new ideas, new relationships, and increased motivation to contribute to addressing these integrated challenges in new ways.
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Other top clean energy conferences across the U.S. in January:
January 19-20: Grid Modernization Forum (Chicago, IL)
- This focused, two-day educational and networking event closely examines lessons learned to date by industry leaders who are pushing the frontiers of grid modernization and reliability. Key technology innovators and executives will come together to share perspectives on how best to leverage Advanced Metering Infrastructure investment, engage the customer, and take the smart grid to the next level. Case studies of improved network performance, resiliency, outage restoration, and distributed energy resource integration will be examined with an eye toward determining best practices and technology advances for today’s energy ecosystem. This will be a unique opportunity to network with top industry professionals who are leading the way toward effective grid modernization and the integrated, interoperable, resilient energy network of tomorrow.
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