Full Schedule

7:00 AM - 4:00 PM MT

Registration Open

7:15 AM - 8:15 AM MT

Fun Run & Walk

7:45 AM - 8:45 AM MT

Networking Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MT

Navigating Fire Risk and Community Concerns in California’s Permitting Process

Location: Colorado BCD

Speaker: – Energy & Environmental Economics (E3)

Speaker: – California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development

Speaker: – Hiller Fire Protection

Speaker: – ENGIE

Emerging Technology & Policy

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM MT

Networking Break & Exhibits

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM MT

Clean Power INSIGHTS: From Reform to Results—First Comparative Evidence from a Five-State Permitting Gap Analysis

Location: Colorado BCD

Speaker: – Grid Strategies

Emerging Technology & Policy

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM MT

Transition Break

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM MT

Lessons from Rancho Viejo—How We Built a Successful Coalition to Combat Sophisticated Opposition in New Mexico

Location: Colorado A

Moderator: – RenUSA

Speaker: – Greenlight America

Speaker: – AES

Speaker: – Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce

Community, Tribal Partner & Stakeholder Engagement

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM MT

Backstop to Breakthrough—Building Transmission at the Speed of Need

Location: Colorado BCD

Moderator: – American Clean Power Association

Speaker: – Electric Power Engineers LLC

Emerging Technology & Policy

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM MT

Clean Power INSIGHTS: Conservation and Land

Location: Juniper Ballroom

Natural Resources

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM MT

Networking Lunch & Exhibits

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM MT

Building Trust at the Local Level—A Conversation with Planning and Zoning Officials

Location: Colorado A

Moderator: – Renewable Northwest

Speaker: – Westwood Professional Services

Speaker: – Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP

Community, Tribal Partner & Stakeholder Engagement

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM MT

The Surge—A Non-Profit Campaign to Maximize Approvals of PTC/ITC Qualified Projects

Location: Colorado BCD

Speaker: – Siting Clean Collaborative

Speaker: – Bantam Communications - SOURCE

Speaker: – AES

Speaker: – Greenlight America

Emerging Technology & Policy

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM MT

Soil and Solar Synergies—Enhancing Land Health through Renewable Energy

Location: Juniper Ballroom

Moderator: – American Clean Power Association

Speaker: – American Farmland Trust

Speaker: – Argonne National Laboratory

Speaker: – Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST)

Speaker: – Kimley-Horn & Associates

Natural Resources

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM MT

Networking Break & Exhibits

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM MT

Clean Power INSIGHTS: Community Engagement

Location: Colorado A

Speaker: – Tetra Tech

Speaker: – Strategic Economic Research

Speaker: – GoodPower

Speaker: – Strategic Elements LLC

Community, Tribal Partner & Stakeholder Engagement

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM MT

Beyond the County Line—How Local Engagement Shapes State Energy Policy

Location: Colorado BCD

Moderator: – Steelhead (Vestas)

Speaker: – Clean Tomorrow

Speaker: – Interwest Energy Alliance

Speaker: – Invenergy

Emerging Technology & Policy

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM MT

Reflections on Corporate Conservation and Biodiversity Successes—A Case Study Discussion

Location: Juniper Ballroom

Moderator: – Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST)

Speaker: – Apex Clean Energy

Speaker: – EDP Renewables

Natural Resources

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM MT

Transition Break

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM MT

Community Benefits—More Than an Agreement

Location: Colorado A

Moderator: – Clean Air Task Force

Community, Tribal Partner & Stakeholder Engagement

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM MT

Siting Energy Storage and Data Centers

Location: Colorado BCD

Emerging Technology & Policy

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM MT

Technology Advances in Wildlife Monitoring and Response—Birds and Cameras

Location: Juniper Ballroom

Speaker: – Argonne National Laboratory

Speaker: – Boulder Imaging, Inc

Speaker: – Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST)

Speaker: – Wildlife Imaging Systems, LLC

Speaker: – Persimia

Natural Resources