Climate change presents a call to action to transform the energy ecosystem, requiring us to change how we’ve planned, fueled, and operated the grid over the past 100 years. The United States has set bold decarbonization targets, necessitating a sixfold growth in connected renewables annually and triple the current transmission capacity by 2035. This pace of change requires better information about our grid to enable decarbonization while ensuring resilience and affordability. This panel will discuss how a data-enabled and transparent grid facilitates the implementation of distributed energy resources (including virtual power plants) and how it empowers us to make optimal decisions about how we build and coordinate the grid of the future.

Immediately following the webinar, you are invited to an optional informal networking session with the panelists, providing a chance for more Q&A, interaction, and career path-based questions and advice. When registering for the webinar, please indicate if you are interested in the networking session to receive the separate networking session Zoom link.

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Join four of the 2023 C3E Award winners to hear about their leading work as well as their own clean energy paths. These Awardees are leaders in clean energy and climate investing, energy storage research, decarbonization of the energy system, and the advancement of utility-scale solar and storage projects.

An optional virtual networking event, immediately following the session, will provide attendees with the opportunity to ask questions and hear the speakers’ advice on clean energy career paths. Please indicate your interest in the networking session when you register. You will receive a separate link to join the networking session.

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Energy poverty, gender inequality, and climate change are three of the gravest threats that face people and planet alike. Decentralized renewable energy access is precisely the kind of solution that will deliver a Just Energy Transition and bring power to the people in the Global South as well as communities in the Global North. Yet, big energy and infrastructure are dominating the Energy Transition agenda. With a focus on rapidly reducing carbon emissions, large-scale renewable systems—many centrally controlled—are being prioritized, leaving hundreds of millions of people—especially women—in rural and marginalized communities without access to energy, increasing their climate vulnerability. Join four C3E Award winners to hear their experience in accelerating energy access in the Global South, followed by a discussion on how delivering energy access through decentralized renewable energy enables climate, gender, and development benefits and upcoming opportunities for further innovation and scale in Africa, Asia, and the United States.

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Hydrogen has been recognized as a key pillar of decarbonizing the global energy system, with application across numerous sectors including transportation, heavy industry and energy storage. Indeed, it is anticipated that the use of clean hydrogen will avoid up to 60 Gt of CO2 emissions over the next 30 years (IEA). Developing the policy, technology and commercial solutions necessary to realize the full potential of hydrogen is not for the weak-hearted. In this webinar, we’ll hear from leading women experts who are paving the way forward for a hydrogen economy and discuss the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

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Climate change is creating new, unforeseen challenges to maintaining reliability for utility customers across the Nation. From ice storms to heat domes, utilities face unprecedented operational challenges with increasing frequency. This webinar will present the reliability challenges caused by extreme weather events and discuss how utilities are leveraging regional collaboration and market enhancements to maintain reliability while continuing to make progress on long term decarbonization goals.

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Clean energy is clearly the way of the future and one of the fastest-growing and most innovative sectors in our economy. We are witnessing a sea change whereby top talent are combining their professional skills with a drive to shape an inclusive clean energy future. Our country and the world need the best, brightest, and passionate leaders to further the development and deployment of clean energy technologies, businesses, policies, and capital. This webinar will feature women-leaders who are doing just that.

The recent C3E award winners are an exemplary group of women leaders who are driving scientific breakthroughs, increasing energy access, improving electric power systems, and investing in groundbreaking technologies that will facilitate the clean energy transition. This webinar will highlight the incredible work of four C3E 2022 award winners, their career pathways, and their visions for career opportunities in the clean energy sector. A virtual networking event with speakers will immediately follow the session to answer your questions and give advice on clean energy career paths.

2022 U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium and Awards

Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington DC

The need for clean, reliable, and affordable energy globally is abundantly apparent. Severe weather, conflict, and a global pandemic have made energy supply, access, and prices much more volatile. Realizing a decarbonized energy system requires new strategies, policies, and innovative technologies, all while driving the creation of new jobs and improving the quality of life for all people. At the 11th Annual U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium & Awards, key thought leaders will explore how we can steadily pursue sustainable energy goals through crises.

In the face of increased extreme weather events and an uncertain electric grid, customers are demanding more control over their energy in the form of battery storage and other distributed energy technologies. The shifting regulatory policies that impact these assets, the rapidly evolving suite of technology applications, and new approaches to marketing storage products to consumers all point to significant growth, but with no shortage of complicating factors and barriers. Join experts across the storage and energy sectors to discuss the latest trends and what to expect from this critically important technology as the United States deploys more clean energy and distributed resources nationwide.

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Rapid electrification of the transportation sector is essential to reaching the U.S. goal of 50 percent plug-in electric vehicle (EV) sales by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050. It’s estimated that the transportation sector in the United States contributes to 29 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, making it the largest contributor of U.S. GHG emissions, with an urgent need to decarbonize. Beyond decarbonization, gas powered vehicles pollute the air and are linked to premature deaths that disproportionately affect low-income communities. The future of the auto industry is electric, but first we’ll need to address current challenges to rapid EV deployment.

This webinar will feature female experts who are leading the way in the development and adoption of EV technologies. The webinar will focus on current EV advances and overcoming existing challenges to rapid EV adoption, highlighting programs that can successfully mobilize consumers’ purchasing decisions to favor EVs.

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Clean energy is one of the fastest-growing and most innovative sectors in our economy. The clean energy sector is attracting top talent—achievers who are pairing their professional skills with personal passion and drive to change our energy future. Experience and expertise are needed in a wealth of fields, as a career in clean energy can span an ecosystem of policy, finance, engineering, entrepreneurship, law, and beyond—and government, industry, and academia all play important and interdependent roles. Our country and the world need exceptional leaders to further clean energy technologies and businesses, encourage supportive policies, and attract funding. Yet with any emergent sector, knowing how to break in, navigate change, and maximize impact can be challenging. Hear from four clean energy industry leaders and U.S. DOE C3E Ambassadors:

• Deb Frodl, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DF Strategies, LLC
• Colette Honorable, Partner, Reed Smith LLP
• Joan Wills, Executive Director, Cummins Electronics
• Ramya Swaminathan, Chief Executive Officer, Malta, Inc.

The session will focus on the diverse career opportunities in the clean energy sector. The webinar will be followed by an optional networking event with the presenters, who will answer your questions about clean energy career paths and options.

Join U.S. C3E Ambassador Julia Hamm (CEO, Smart Electric Power Alliance), Mari McClure (CEO, Green Mountain Power), Patti Poppe (CEO, PG&E), and Debra Smith (CEO, Seattle City Light) as they discuss utility leadership in accelerating the carbon-free energy transition.

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