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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Monday, April 14, 2025
  • 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM PT
    Registration Open
  • 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM PT
    Tribal and Renewable Industry Convening  
  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM PT
    Media Training: How to Make Local Press Your Ally, Not Your Adversary, in Gaining Community Support 
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM PT
    Welcome Reception
  • Tuesday, April 15, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT
    Registration Open
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM PT
    Networking Breakfast
  • 8:15 AM – 9:30 AM PT
    Opening General Session
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Networking Break & Exhibits
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
    Resilient and Bankable Project Development in a Changing Climate
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
    Strategies and Approaches for Permitting in a New Administration
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
    The Experts: Insights and Strategies for Community Acceptance and Permitting
  • 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    Evolving Local Permitting Rules for Energy Storage
  • 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    Preparing Landowners and Community Stakeholders for Beyond Development
  • 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    Wildlife Behavior and Designing Clean Energy and Transmission to Minimize Disturbance
    Moderator: Meaghan Gade, PhD (she/her/hers) – Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
    Natural & Cultural Resources
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT
    Networking Lunch & Exhibits
  • 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PT
    Clean Power INSIGHTS: Messages and Alliances for Successful Community Engagement
    Community, Tribal Partners, and Stakeholder Engagement
  • 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PT
    Clean Power INSIGHTS: Technology & Wildlife
    Natural & Cultural Resources
  • 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PT
    Film Screening: Pastures and Panels—The Power of Solar Grazing
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM PT
    ENDGAME Local Approval: New Opportunities and New Allies
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM PT
    Managing Monarchs and Other Listed Insects at Generation Facilities and in Rights-of-Way
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM PT
    U.S. Agrivoltaics Policy & Implementation—Present & Future
  • 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM PT
    Networking Break & Exhibits
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PT
    Proactively Working with State Wildlife Agencies—Case Study on Large Scale Solar in California
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PT
    Siting is Political; All Politics is Local
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PT
    Tribal Engagement— Community Benefits Planning
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT
    Poster Reception
  • Wednesday, April 16, 2025
  • 6:30 AM – 7:30 AM PT
    Power Up 5k Run & 2.5K Walk
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM PT
    Networking Breakfast
  • 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM PT
    Registration Open 
  • 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PT
    Regional and State Siting Legislation
  • 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PT
    Stormwater Management Planning and Achieving Notice of Termination
  • 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PT
    Voices from the Heartland—Creating a Winning Message in Rural America
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Networking Break & Exhibits
  • 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PT
    Clean Power INSIGHTS—Furthering Engagement & Development with Data and Tech
    Community, Tribal Partners, and Stakeholder Engagement
  • 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PT
    The Esmerelda 7—A Coordinated Approach to Leasing & Permitting on BLM Land in Nevada
  • 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PT
    Vegetation Monitoring and Landscape Screening
    Natural & Cultural Resources
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    Combating False Narratives about Clean Energy
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    Long-Distance, Multi-State Transmission Challenges & Policy
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    Vegetation Establishment and Maintenance
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT
    Networking Lunch & Exhibits
  • 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM PT
    Decoding Decommissioning Plans—Navigating Policy and Assuring Stakeholders
  • 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM PT
    Lessons Learned in the First Year of the 2024 Eagle Rule
  • 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM PT
    The Path of Most Resistance—Navigating Constraints and Public Involvement for a new Transmission Line
  • 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM PT
    Networking Break & Exhibits
  • 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Back to the Basics for Bats
  • 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Building a Culturally Informed Tribal Nation Engagement Program
  • 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Siting Considerations, Limitations, and Opportunities when Assessing Biodiversity and Soil Health to Meet ESG Goals
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PT
    Biodiversity at Solar Facilities—Emerging Development, Financing, and Operational Trends
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PT
    Fundamentals of a Land Campaign—Pathways to Project Approval in Local Communities
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM PT
    Minnesota Case Study—Permitting Reform Model for the Rapid Deployment of Clean Energy and Transmission Projects