2025 Renewable Energy Conference
Event Details
2025 Renewable Energy Conference
WHEN: Wednesday, March 5, from 8:45 am to 4:30 pm
WHERE: Conference Center at Waltham Woods, MA
As we mark the five-year countdown to 2030, and the region reflects on its progress towards its climate change goals, NECA will bring forward four panels designed to look at some of the challenges we face and various ways we are tackling them. We will assess the current landscape and identify the headwinds facing renewable energy, creative solutions to those challenges, and opportunities for growth with policymakers, private industry and public utility representatives.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Upcoming Enhancements to the Massachusetts SMART Program
Samantha Meserve, Director – Renewable and Alternative Energy Division, MA Department of Energy Resources
PANEL TOPICS & SPEAKERS:
Federal Law and Policy Changes and What They Mean for Renewables: Some Healthy Speculation
Susan Rogers, Partner, Potomac Law Group, PLLC – Moderator
Jeremy McDiarmid, Managing Director and General Counsel, Advanced Energy United
Bahaa Seireg, Senior Director of Eastern Regional Electricity & Transmission Policy, American Clean Power
Patricia Tamez, Senior Advisor, US Power Policy, Shell
Turning State Goals into Deployment: The Role of Grid Planning in Decarbonization
Courtney Feeley Karp, Senior Counsel, Klavens Law Group, P.C. – Moderator
Marianne Perben, Director of Planning Services, ISO New England
Lisa Salmore, VP of Electric Asset Management & Engineering, National Grid
Peter Shattuck, Director, Power Advisory
Kate Tohme, Director of Interconnection Policy, New Leaf Energy, Inc.
Siting Renewable Energy in the Northeast: Approaches and Perspectives from Across the Region
Jolette Westbrook, Director & Senior Attorney, Equitable Regulatory Solutions, Environmental Defense Fund – Moderator
Mike Judge, Undersecretary of Energy, MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Bob Cleaves, Co-Founder, Dirigo Solar
Sarah Crowell, Chief of Renewable Energy Siting, NY Department of Public Service
John Mangiaratti, Manager, Town of Acton
Energy Storage Programs and Procurements: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
Rob Ritchie, Energy Storage Strategist & Leader – Moderator
Sean Burke, Policy Director, BlueWave
Sergio Carrillo, Managing Director of Clean Energy Incentive Programs, CT Green Bank
Hans Detweiler, Senior Director of Development, Jupiter Power
Sarah Jackson, Senior Policy Manager for the Eastern Region, Form Energy
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
Cal Brown, Senior Policy Analyst, Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC
Carissa Sedlacek, Director of Transmission Interconnections and Solutions, Eversource Energy
COST*:
NECA Members $525 | Non-members $575 | Government $275 | Young Professional Members** $285 | YP Non-members** $310 | Students*** $100
* Prices increase by $25 after February 26
** Working in the energy industry less than five years
*** This rate is for full-time students
PREMIER SPONSORS: Klavens Law Group, P.C. | London Economics International | Michaud Law Group | Pullman & Comley | Robinson+Cole | StoneTurn | Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC | TRC | Verdantas LLC
CORPORATE SPONSORS: Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. | BSC Group | Eversource Energy | Power Advisory LLC | Potomac Law Group | Preti Flaherty | Rath Young Pignatelli | Rich May, P.C. | Shell | Womble Bond Dickinson
EXHIBITORS: Eversource | Sustainable Energy Advantage | TRC | Verdantas
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Group rate hotel accommodations are available at the Hampton Inn and Suites Boston/Waltham. Reserve by February 21.