Young Professionals Building Blocks: Presenting Yourself with Confidence

Thursday, October 15 from 6 to 7:30 pm | Offices of Preti Flaherty, 60 State Street, Boston

Do you ever wonder how you’re presenting yourself professionally? Executive Coach Donna Star will share practical tips for putting your best foot forward in interviews and the workplace in a fun, relaxed, and interactive workshop. You’ll have the opportunity to practice what you learn in small groups using real-world prompts. Space is limited, so register soon!

Registration is $20. Refreshments and session with Donna are included. If cost is a problem, please reach out to Marla for assistance.

If you would like to learn more about this event or the NECA Young Professionals Committee, please reach out to Jonas Kaplan-Bucciarelli or Zach Gray-Traverso.

REGISTER HERE

Member Appreciation Event: Visit FirstLight Power’s Northfield Mountain Storage Facility!

Join NECA and FirstLight Power on Friday, October 16, at 10 am for a private two-hour driving tour of the Northfield Mountain Pumped Hydro Storage Station. This facility, located at 99 Millers Fall Road in Northfield, is New England’s largest energy storage facility, with its giant water battery that is capable of powering more than 1 million homes for up to 7.5 hours each day.

The tour will be followed by a casual lunch and discussion onsite. Space is limited to 13 so reserve your spot today! To allow for more members to enjoy this opportunity, we are limiting each member company to 2 attendees. 

This is event is currently full. Contact Marla to be put on a waiting list.

Additional Details:
Upon arrival, the Tour Leader will conduct a safety briefing and distribute personal protective equipment to all tour participants. The safety briefing will cover general visitor safety practices, and identify assembly locations in the event of an emergency.  Tour groups will be escorted at all times, and will follow a prescribed route through the plant. Tour participants should stay close enough to the Tour Leaders to hear them speak in a normal voice. The Tour Leaders will lead the group, and a FirstLight employee escort will also follow the group as a trailer to ensure the group stays together. Tour groups must obey instructions from the tour leader, escort, and/or plant personnel at all times, and must stay with the tour group and on the prescribed route at all times. Waivers for signature will be provided before or at the tour.

Personal Protective Equipment – Long pants and closed-toe shoes with a uniform heel are required for all tour participants (e.g. no sandals, Crocs, ballet flats, or shoes with a heel). FirstLight will provide hardhats and safety glasses with side shields, as well as hearing protection if required based on plant operations.

Personal belongings – Tour participants must not bring bags, backpacks, food, beverages, or other items that might encumber their movement on the tour. Photography will be allowed in the plants, but Tour participants may not take pictures of the control rooms or of FirstLight plant personnel without their permission. The Tour Leader will stop at designated points for photography, and at other times tour participants should put away phones to avoid distractions and maintain full awareness of their surroundings.

Due to unforeseen maintenance or security restrictions, the tour may be cancelled at any time with minimum notice. Should this occur, the group will be contacted as soon as possible, and the tour rescheduled if possible.

Join NECA for its third annual Energy Innovation Forum! This event will bring together a broad range of energy industry professionals and companies to identify and discuss the most innovative tools and strategies being used to advance the energy industry. With ample networking opportunities, outstanding visionary speakers and an occasion to visit Prince Lobel’s newly-renovated office space in Boston, this is a function you won’t want to miss. Lunch will be provided.

As part of this event, we solicited nominations for concepts, products and strategies that individuals, companies and agencies are developing to provide innovative solutions that tackle the objectives of the energy industry: providing clean energy and reducing carbon emissions, addressing reliability and electrification, and mitigating costs to customers. 

Keynote Speaker: Tilak Subrahmanian, Vice President, Eversource Energy
Panel:
Moderator: Andrew Kaplan, Partner, Pierce Atwood LLP
Dr. Anuradha (Anu) Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
David Cavanaugh, Vice President, Regulatory & Market Affairs, Energy New England
Brett Feldman, Distributed Energy Resources Manager, Rhode Island Energy

Winners in Innovation:
ATS Energy
Common Current
Dugu Systems
Rotodyne Power

Event Pricing: Members $95 | Non-Members $120 | Government & Young Professionals* $50 | Students** $20

* Working in the energy industry less than five years
** Full-time students only

REGISTER HERE

Host: Prince Lobel Type LLP
Sponsors: Eversource Energy | London Economics International | Rich May, P.C. | Shell Energy | StoneTurn

Want to join them? Click here.

Member Appreciation Event: Visit the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory!

Join NECA on Friday, November 6, at 10 am for a free, private two-hour tour of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. This facility, located at 138 Albany Street in Cambridge, is the second largest university research reactor in the U.S. and supports educational training and cutting-edge research in the areas of nuclear fission engineering, material science, radiation effects in biology and medicine, neutron physics, geochemistry, and environmental studies.

The tour will be followed by a casual lunch and discussion onsite. Space is limited to 30 attendees, so reserve your spot today! NECA Members Only. 

NOTE: To allow for more members to enjoy this opportunity, we are limiting each member company to 4 attendees. 

REGISTER HERE

Additional Details:
Note that the registration form requires important information to be collected from all attendees. Background checks will be conducted in advance of the event. Registration is open until 10/23 at 3:00 pm.

Take advantage of this Member Benefit!

This meeting will take place at Boston’s Commonwealth Pier at 200 Seaport Boulevard, with an option to attend virtually for those who can’t attend in person. It will run from 3 to 5 pm, with the HOUR OF POWER beginning at approximately 4 pm. The agenda will include nominations for 2027 Board of Directors election.

Board meetings are open to all NECA members. If you are not a NECA member, but wish to attend, please contact Marla Simon at [email protected] before registering. Thank you.

REGISTER HERE FOR THE BOARD MEETING!

WHAT: Second Annual Retail Markets Conference
WHEN: Thursday, November 19 from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm
WHERE: Amenity Center, 100 High Street, Boston

NECA’s Retail Markets Committee will host its second annual half-day conference, bringing together retail energy market participants for a timely discussion of the issues and opportunities impacting the industry. The program will focus on natural gas retail markets, as well as mass-market and commercial and industrial (C&I) electricity, with perspectives relevant to suppliers, brokers, business partners, and consumers throughout the Northeast. Lunch will be provided for all attendees.

CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Rob Munnelly, Shareholder, David Malm
Carol Anne Watts, Vice President of Sales, Freedom Energy Logistics

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Frank Caliva, President, PR Quinlan
Dileep Prabhaker, Regional Sales Director, Freedom Energy Logistics
Christian Rodrick, Director, Public Affairs & Industry Engagement, Northeast Gas Association
José Rotger, Director, Market Intelligence – New England, Customized Energy Solutions
Jason Swan, Director of Natural Gas Sales, Sprague
Brooke Thomson, President & CEO, Associated Industries of Massachusetts

COST*:
Member $225 | Non-member $300 | Young Professional Member** $125 | Young Professional Non-member** $175 | Government & Non-profit $125 | Full-time Student $50

* Prices will increase by $25 on November 12th.
** Working in the energy industry less than five years

REGISTER HERE

Hot Topics in 2027 New England Public Policy

Energy and environmental issues continue to be top of mind in New England. In all six states, lawmakers will be asked to address issues such as reliability and affordability while still making progress on environmental goals. Join us for a conversation with public policy experts from each New England state as we look at the hot energy and environmental issues in the region’s state houses—and the politics behind it all.

PANEL:
Molly Connors, Policy Analyst-Manager, New England Power Generators Association (Moderator)
Jen Gorke, Principal, TSK Associates – Massachusetts
Christopher Boyle, Attorney At Law – Rhode Island
Nicholas J. Charyk, Manager, Government and Public Affairs, Downs Rachlin Martin – Vermont
James Monahan, President, The Dupont Group – New Hampshire
Jeremy Payne, Principal, Maine Office, Cornerstone Government Affairs – Maine
Nicole Tomassetti, Partner, Capitol Strategies Group, LLC – Connecticut

COST:
Members $40 | Non-Members $55 | Government $35 | Young Professionals $35 | Students Free

REGISTER HERE

2027 Power Markets Conference

WHEN: Thursday, January 28 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
WHERE: University of Massachusetts Club, One Beacon Street, Boston, MA

COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
Molly Connors, Policy Analyst – Manager, New England Power Generators Association
Rosendo Garza, Senior Associate, Day Pitney LLP

Click HERE to learn how to become a sponsor.

COST*:
Members $550 | Non-members $625 | Government & Non-profit $225 | Young Professional Members** $225
Young Professional Non-Members** $300 | Students*** $100 

*  Prices will increase by $25 on January 21st.
** Working in the energy industry less than five years
*** Full-time students only

REGISTER HERE

NEARBY HOTELS:
Hilton Boston Logan Airport
Hampton Inn Boston Seaport District, a lower-cost option in the city (1.9 miles)