Perspectives on Energy Use in Buildings
Efficiency and electrification in buildings – what are the best practices by type of facility or by type of technology?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Buildings
Perspectives on Offshore Wind Technologies
What’s new in offshore wind?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Offshore Wind
Perspectives on Renewable Technologies
What renewable technologies will enable a low-carbon future, and how will storage be integrated into the solution?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Renewables
Perspectives on Thermal Fuel Innovations
What thermal fuel innovations will lead to scaled deployments that reduce greenhouse gases while remaining reliable and affordable?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Thermal Fuel Innovations
Perspectives on Infrastructure Modernization
How is digitization best applied to grid assets, customers and utility field operations? What are best practices for information technology and analytics?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Infrastructure Modernization
Perspectives on Transportation Technologies
How are clean transportation innovations at a component, unit and system level changing the game?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Transportation
Perspectives on Clean Energy Investment
What clean technologies are investors most bullish about? How are emerging technology companies securing funding today?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Investment
Perspectives on Energy Resiliency
What methods, processes and technologies are improving system resiliency? How do they impact prevention, diagnosis and recovery?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Resiliency
Adoption of Electrification and Efficiency in Buildings
How is customer sentiment and behavior impacting efficiency and electrification in building systems?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Buildings
Adoption of Offshore Wind
How do we assess the social and grid impact of offshore wind? Relative to other renewables and thermal fuel innovations?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Offshore Wind
Utilization of Large Scale Renewables
What are the projections for siting and integration today and tomorrow? Will market saturation or NIMBY concerns interrupt ongoing adoption?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Renewables
Adoption of Thermal Fuel Innovations
How well will thermal fuel innovations be received by communities and customers?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Thermal Fuel Innovations
Acceptance of Infrastructure Modernization
What are the points of integration to other smart systems (e.g., smart cities)? Who owns customer energy data and who accepts responsibility/liability for outcomes?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Infrastructure Modernization
Adoption of Low-Carbon Transportation Technologies
To quickly meet carbon reduction targets, how should top-down vs. bottom-up market adoption be negotiated?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Transportation
Utilization of Investment Mechanisms
How can financing better support key innovations for decarbonization from startup to market entry?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Investment
Accepting the Cost of Resiliency and Reliability
How do we decide how much reliability and resiliency is enough when energy users have different acceptable outage and power quality rates?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Resiliency
Business Models and Regulation for Building Energy Systems
What is the relative role of regulation vs. business model innovation to spur efficiency and electrification in building systems?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Buildings
Business Models and Regulation for Offshore Wind
How can regulation, permitting and business models work together to help siting and delivery?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Offshore Wind
Business Models and Regulation for Renewables
Who owns what percent of renewables in ten years and why? What are the pros and cons of various models of ownership?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Renewables
Business Models and Regulation for Thermal Fuel Innovations
Carbon pricing/carbon-to-value: Will it actually happen in the absence of political will?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Thermal Fuel Innovations
Business Models and Regulation for Infrastructure Modernization
To what extent do traditional utility structures make sense in a distributed generation alternative future? Is there one optimal business model or many?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Infrastructure Modernization
Business Models and Regulation for Low-Carbon Transportation
What regulations will stimulate businesses to drive toward an optimal clean transportation future? Who should impose these?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Transportation
Aligning Business Models and Regulation With Investment
What’s the investor perspective on who should own clean energy assets and how the utility business model should evolve?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Investment
Business Models and Regulation for Resiliency
In a future that involves significant distributed generation, who pays for resiliency and how? Who is penalized for lower reliability and resiliency scores?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Track Session: Resiliency
Deeper Dive: Manufacturing an Offshore Wind Market
Can the U.S. reshape its manufacturing industry to conquer offshore wind?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Deeper Dive: Offshore Wind
Deeper Dive: Storage Survivors
Batteries vs. gas to fuel vs. alternatives — which technology will make the difference in the long run?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Deeper Dive: Infrastructure Modernization, Renewables, Thermal Fuel Innovations
Deeper Dive: Fiddling While Rome Burns
Do people care enough to change? Despite lots of noise around sustainability, what data demonstrates that people’s behavior or global energy consumption is changing?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Deeper Dive: Buildings, Infrastructure Modernization, Transportation
Cross-Track: Technology Ideals and Trade-offs
Electrification, renewables, reliability, resiliency: Can we make it win-win-win-win, or will there inevitably be a hard trade-off?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Cross Track: Infrastructure Modernization, Renewables, Resiliency, Thermal Fuel Innovations
Cross-Track: Realizing the Potential of Smart Energy
What’s the right organizational framework? Who owns what, from smart objects to smart infrastructure?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Cross Track: Buildings, Infrastructure Modernization, Transportation
Deeper Dive: Disruption on a Tight Schedule
Can we innovate our way out of this, or is that not enough to meet climate goals? When is the right time to invest in specific technologies?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Deeper Dive: Buildings, Infrastructure Modernization, Investment, Renewables, Thermal Fuel Innovations, Transportation
Cross Track: Making the Dollars Work
What pricing signals support decarbonization by being understandable enough to drive consumer behavior while allowing for company profit?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Cross Track: Buildings, Infrastructure Modernization, Investment, Renewables, Transportation
Cross Track: Today’s Visionaries, Edison’s Grid
How would startup disruptors from different subsectors reinvent the grid if it were to be built from scratch today?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Cross Track: Buildings, Infrastructure Modernization, Renewables, Thermal Fuel Innovations, Transportation
Cross Track: AEC Grid Integration Challenge
How do our AEC 2021 attendees define an integrated grid? What are the challenges and opportunities as we get there?
- Location: TBA
- Speakers: TBA
- Cross Track: Buildings, Infrastructure Modernization, Renewables, Thermal Fuel Innovation, Transportation
Deeper Dive: New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
How does New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act illuminate similar efforts throughout the U.S.?
- Location: TBD
- Speakers: TBD
- Deeper Dive: Buildings, Infrastructure Modernization, Investment, Offshore Wind, Renewables, Thermal Fuel Innovations, Transportation