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Community Solar Power Summit

COMMUNITY SOLAR POWER SUMMIT

July 18-19, 2019
Community solar empowers homeowners and local businesses with the financial and environmental benefits of solar power. Coupled with energy storage, community solar projects expands customer choice and access, while improving grid resilience and reliability. The Community Solar Power Summit, produced...

Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy

MID-ATLANTIC RENEWABLE ENERGY

July 17-19, 2019
The demand for renewable energy is rapidly expanding across the Mid-Atlantic market driven by new & ambitious RPS goals, growing demand from corporate and other consumers, and the retirement of traditional generation assets. However, contention with market rule changes, the looming expiration of fed...

Clean Cities Renewable Power Procurement Summit

CLEAN CITIES RENEWABLE POWER PROCUREMENT SUMMIT

July 24-25, 2019
The Clean Cities Renewable Power Procurement Summit, hosted by the City of Denver, has been organized to help cities navigate the many complex considerations involved in procuring renewable power. Bringing together executives from cities across the country who are actively involved in the process, p...

STORAGE WEEK PLUS

STORAGE WEEK PLUS

July 23-25, 2019
The Workshop, Dealing with Business Issues in Renewables + Storage Projects, provides a deep-dive into the technical and business-side challenges of deploying renewables + storage projects. Explore what regulatory drivers are behind the industry’s most exciting projects, how to maximize long-term op...

Intersolar North America

INTERSOLAR NORTH AMERICA

July 09-11, 2019
Intersolar North America, North America's premier exhibition and conference, is the perfect place to explore the megatrends driving the solar industry first. It's the industry hotspot to discover the latest trends in photovoltaics, PV production technologies, and solar heating and cooling. Co-locate...

2019 Midwest Farm Energy Conference

2019 MIDWEST FARM ENERGY CONFERENCE

July 10-11, 2019
Save the date for the 2019 Midwest Farm Energy Conference, which is scheduled for July 10-11, 2019. The conference will highlight energy efficient systems for Midwest dairies and cropping systems (on July 10), as well as energy conservation for swine production (on July 11).Conference will include:E...

ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit

ARPA-E ENERGY INNOVATION SUMMIT

July 08-10, 2019
The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit (The Summit) is an annual conference and technology showcase that brings together experts from different technical disciplines and professional communities to think about America’s energy challenges in new and innovative ways. Now in its tenth year, the Summit off...

Solar & Storage Finance Asia

SOLAR & STORAGE FINANCE ASIA

July 09-10, 2019
"Connecting Finance & Development to secure 45 Billion USD of Solar & Storage Opportunities in Asia" Returning to Singapore for its 5th edition, Solar & Storage Finance Asia will be the meeting point for developers, financiers and investors across the Asia Pacific region.With round-table discussion...

 

Webinars

JUL 18, 2019 | 12:00PM
FUNDING AND INCENTIVES TO IMPLEMENT ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECTS
Opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce energy-related costs often can require investment in new equipment, technology, or controls. Identifying funding available to your business and providing estimates of project payback are key components. Many companies could be eligible to appl...
JUL 18, 2019
INCREASING ACCESS TO 3D DATA FOR SOLAR DESIGN: AURORA SOLAR & GOOGLE
The rise of software tools for accurate solar design, sales, and engineering has given solar installation companies the means to cut their costs of acquiring and servicing customers. Solar software firm Aurora Solar pioneered the use of LIDAR data, which provides a 3D map of an area to cal...
JUL 18, 2019 | 9:00 AM
BIG DATA AND THE CARIBBEAN'S ENERGY TRANSITION
The Journal of Caribbean Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energy and the CARILEC Renewable Energy Community (CAREC) invites you to our second Webinar for 2019 where we feature leading academics and industry experts across the region to discuss "Big Data and the Caribbean's Energy Trans...
JUL 23, 2019 | 7:00 AM
MORNINGSTAR SOLAR CHARGE CONTROLLERS & INVERTERS
Morningstar has been the world's leading supplier of solar charge controllers and inverters for over 25 years. This webinar is conducted each month to introduce individuals to Morningstar and off-grid solar. It is also appropriate for experienced professionals who are looking for a refresh...
JUL 23, 2019 | 12:00PM
SOLAR POWER HOUR WITH CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD
Thinking about going solar? Join the Illinois Green Alliance and Citizens Utility Board (CUB) to learn about the basics of solar and its financial implications for a household. You’ll also learn about a solar group buy program called Solarize Chicagoland run by CUB. Residents throughout Co...
JUL 24, 2019 | 11:00 AM
NEW RENEWABLE ENERGY PROCUREMENT MODELS OPENING THE MARKET TO MIDSIZED CORPORATIONS
Two corporate renewable energy deals made headlines this year for being unprecedented: First, Bloomberg, Cox, Gap Inc., Salesforce and Workday aggregated to collectively purchase 42.5 megawatts of renewable energy, becoming the anchor tenant on a solar project. Then, Starbucks made waves w...

FOLLOWING THE WIND TURBINE CONDITION-MONITORING CIRCLE
Sponsored
Data from a Condition Monitoring System in a wind turbine travels to the analyst, then to purchasing and O&M, who then sends it back to the wind turbine with a technician who will perform some action
OPPORTUNITIES FOR JOINT WATER-ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS
Coordinating water-energy efficiency efforts provide a significant opportunity to achieve greater savings for both water and energy utilities. In particular, jointly run end-use water and energy efficiency programs have a huge potential to save energy and water at the home and at the suppl...
TOOLS AND SERVICES FOR ENERGY MANAGEMENT
“Tools and Services for energy management”, with crucial information about tools to all those who want to improve ICT energy efficiency in their business.In less than an hour, Jaak Vlasveld (Director of GreenIT Amsterdam) and Rahib Bashroush (Coordinator of Eureca project) - will provide t...
FINANCING RENEWABLE ENERGY: ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF CAPITAL
Financing is a crucial component of any successful renewable energy project, especially during difficult economic times. For many capital intensive technologies in the wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal sectors, innovative project finance techniques make large scale deployment possible. ...
REDUCING WIND ENERGY COSTS THROUGH INNOVATION
The cost of wind energy generation has fallen dramatically since the introduction of commercial wind turbines in the 1980s, largely through innovation and technology development. But in many cases, we have still not reached grid parity, when it can produce electricity at the same price as ...
TRANSFORMATIONAL TRENDS IN THE BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS INDUSTRY
Real-time building energy management or BEM is becoming a reality due to advancements in software control and cloud solutions. The use of IoT and subsequently ‘Internet of Everything’ in buildings will alter the competitive landscape, resulting in in new service models and customer-centric...

RESOURCES

For the first time since the build-out of the US electric power system in the first half of the twentieth century, renewable energy sources surpassed coal in the nation’s monthly electricity generatio...

The Illinois General Assembly, following a series of marathon hearings and sessions, has passed sweeping energy legislation, called the Future Energy Jobs Bill (SB 2814). Once approved by Governor Bru...

If we have any chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, we will have to completely embrace renewable energy. The reason why is simple: Renewable energy produces little or no greenhouse ...

Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fos...

The Green Climate Fund (G.C.F.) has approved funding to support a proposed Asian Development Bank (A.D.B.) programme that will assist seven Pacific island countries to transition to a renewable energy...

The Netherlands, country of wind mills since its inception, will gradually cut subsidies for renewable energy. Instead, the government will from now on focus on saving energy and capturing carbon.Holl...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC is one of several oil firms attempting to develop wind power amid pressure from shareholders to tap into renewable energy sources as global efforts to limit climate change gain m...

Ohio has some of the country’s best wind resources, but right now the state it letting them lie dormant. That’s unfortunate because, if allowed to proceed, wind power growth in the Buckeye State is re...

The intense bidding is finally over! After a marathon session that spilled into a second day, and 33 rounds of bidding, the winner of the New York offshore wind area lease is Statoil Wind US. The $42....