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Clean Peak Standards (CPS) are being implemented or considered by several states, as a way to focus renewable generation at peak demand hours. Energy storage is expected to play a major role in these efforts. In this webinar, Lon Huber, who has consulted with numerous state governors and energy officials on CPS, will discuss the role of storage and how some states are approaching storage in the CPS. 

Speaker: Lon Huber, Navigant
Moderator: Todd Olinsky-Paul, Clean Energy States Alliance 

This webinar is presented by CESA for the RPS Collaborative and for CESA's Energy Storage Working Group.

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How can the Blockchain drive major new business opportunities for solar, energy storage, electric vehicle charging–and your energy business?

Come learn from a panel of experts and take home actionable ideas for how to make this cutting edge online security technology transform energy innovation.

Register for this workshop at the University of Massachusetts Lowell iHub to learn from our researchers, industry experts, and energy professionals from Clean Energy Block Chain Network, EBC, National Grid, NECA, NECEC, and Veolia.

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As solar markets mature, O&M programs that optimize system performance and maximize ROI are becomming a key focus for the solar industry. New business models are evolving, and data-driven automation and analytics are redefining Residential and Commercial Solar O&M.

Join the Solar Energy Business Association of New England for a day of presentations and panel discussions designed for solar developers, installers, and investor/owner-operators interested in learning about:

• Market shifts and new business models driving residential and commercial solar O&M today

• The latest in O&M standards and best practices, and PV O&M Cost Models

• Innovations in detection and diagnostic electronics and analytics for optimizing performance and maximizing ROI

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As a counter-narrative to the often-cited utility death spiral, the electrification of the heating and transportation sectors could present an opportunity for utilities and their private-sector counterparts to catalyze deep GHG reductions, reduce energy costs, and promote economic growth.  However, a number of challenging questions must be explored in this transition to greater electrification. Join Young Professionals in Energy Boston  for this panel that will bring together utility, regulator, and private-sector stakeholders to explore a number of questions that must be resolved and initiatives that could be pursued, to allow future industry developments towards increased electrification.

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NECEC and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center have partnered to produce a series of discussions as part of NECEC’s Emerging Trends Series exploring where cleantech converges with other segments of the innovation economy. 

The series will kick off on November 8 at the Google Cambridge Campus with a panel discussion about the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and cleantech. As AI and machine learning trends have grown over the last several decades, they have impacted industries from healthcare to financial services. AI is in the early-stages of use in cleantech, utilities and energy, where companies are seeing increasing opportunities to use AI to improve reliability, safety, cyber security, efficiency, and to reduce costs. Emerging Trends Series: Where Artificial Intelligence and Cleantech Converge will bring together innovators and technology leaders from companies and organizations who are using AI to drive better management, safety and deployment of clean energy.

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America’s cities are becoming significant demand drivers for renewable sector growth and investment.

Buoyed by aggressive climate action plans and overwhelming public support for clean energy, cities have increasingly committed to high penetrations of renewables to power their municipal operations and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Today, 86 cities have pledged to transition to 100 percent renewable energy. As demand grows, America’s local leaders look to lessons learned from the C&I sector and other large off-takers as they seek to procure renewables at-scale both within and outside of city limits.

This quarterly State of the Industry webinar will showcase recent successes, as well as highlight a new multi-city effort announced in June designed to aggregate cities’ demand and jointly contract for utility-scale projects. It will also feature a quarterly Market Update from BNEF, as well as our regular policy update.

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In 2015 the Baker-Polito Administration announced a two-phase, $10-million-dollar Energy Storage Initiative. Phase II included funding for energy storage demonstration projects via the Advancing Commonwealth Energy Storage (ACES) program.  The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and (MassCEC) and the Department of Energy Resources awarded funding for 26 demonstration projects. Many of these projects included Solar and Storage.  Kavita Ravi – Director of Emerging Markets – will provide an update on the program and projects underway.

The ACES program is the beginning of a new revolution in how power will be delivered and used in the near future. Shane O’Quinn Autogrid’s Senior Director of Strategic Accounts will provide us an overview of how the future of solar/storage and other distributed assets will be balanced to meet the supply and demand of electricity in real time. Autogrid’s Energy Internet applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver clean, affordable and reliable energy in a distributed energy world. 

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Join Richi Entrepreneurs and ACTION Innovation Network's annual Toast To Impact party to celebrate Massachusetts' unique health and cleantech innovation ecosystem! Come and honor the incredible work that incubators, investors, government, academia, and other professionals are doing to support entrepreneurs and innovators - all with a common goal of making a great impact to our society and environment.

We invite you to keep growing your network with vibrant music and tasty food. Let's continue building Massachusetts' global innovation capacity, all together!

To all entrepreneurs looking for meaningful connections with industry experts and other key players from the health and cleantech innovation ecosystems, this is your party! Show your great projects off!

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Venture Cafe’s Energy & Cleantech mini-conference seeks to bring together the brightest minds who are building, funding, and innovating in the Greater Boston area’s Energy & CleanTech communities. Come prepared to not only hear the best ideas and see the latest technologies but also to participate in building Boston’s CleanTech Industry.

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We're at a pivotal moment. In short, we're facing technological change more rapid and dramatic than we previously imagined, and no corner of business or society will be left untouched. What are the key trends business leaders need to understand? Who are the players to watch across different industries? And which new technologies are most important to solving the world’s big problems?

X·CON is a multidisciplinary business conference across three days and three innovation venues in Kendall Square and Boston’s Seaport District, aimed at executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and visionaries who want to explore such questions—and participate in shaping the future.

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