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Building Efficiency

Scaling efficient, cost-effective and comfortable residential, commercial and industrial facilities

Tuesday, Jun 12, 2018
8:30am to 12:15pm
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NOAA Building Tour: Historic, Cultural and Ecological High-Performance Design (Sign-up Required)

Workshop

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Inouye Regional Center (IRC) on Ford Island encompasses the adaptive reuse of two historic, World War II-era hangars originally designed by Albert Kahn and linked by a new addition on a national historic landmark site in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The facility consolidates hundreds of employees from 15 existing sites around Oahu into a state-of-the-art, 350,000-sf.-ft. research and office campus.

The project team set out to create a highly sustainable design rooted in NOAA’s mission of environmental stewardship and the cultural traditions of the Pacific Region. Designed through twin lenses of sustainability and historic preser¬vation, the IRC demonstrates contextual, high-per¬formance solutions to modern design challenges. The project earned LEED Gold certification and was named an AIA Committee on the Environment 2017 Top Ten Winner.

Innovative strategies inspired by the island’s ecology informed many of the IRC’s design principles. The morphology of Hawaiian trees, for example, pro¬vided lessons for the design of the building’s passive cooling and lighting systems.

In this offsite tour, the panel will present the overarching goals, vision, program, sustainability strategies and bio-inspired design of the IRC. We will explore with the audience the results of data we have modeled to demonstrate how these design concepts could translate to other projects in different cities and climates around the world. This session is designed to either be presented on-site at the IRC or at the conference with a tour of the facility afterward, so attendees can experience the building firsthand and better understand how it functions.

To sign up for the NOAA tour, click here.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Sustainable Tourism
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Speakers

  • Paul Woolford
  • Todd See
  • Joseph Ferraro

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8:30am to 12:30pm
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Microgrids 101: Development, Operations and Scalability

Tutorial

An interactive workshop focused on how to build, operate and scale microgrids for a more energy resilient future. Will include a foundational overview of microgrid types and market solutions, a discussion about how to scalably move microgrids from concept to completion, and a high-level training on microgrid technologies and general operations and maintenance skills.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Resilience and Security

Speakers

  • Peter Asmus
  • Byron Washom
  • Gwen Holdmann
  • Nathan Johnson

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2:10pm to 2:20pm
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VERGE Talk: Connecting the Dots to Transcend Oil

Plenary

In 2008, Hawaii signed into law the most aggressive clean energy goals of any state in the Union. It set the islands on a path to clean energy. Ten years later, the four counties matched the State's clean energy goal with a commitment to 100% renewable ground transportation and new data tells the story of how Hawaii can move faster than anyone originally thought, more than doubling its renewable energy potential to up to 84% by 2030. Aggregating technical, economic, policy and social data for ground transportation and electric power, how do the numbers translate into action? Where are there opportunities for innovation? What does this mean for the rest of the country and the world? 

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security

Speakers

  • Dawn Lippert

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2:20pm to 2:45pm
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Clearing the Path for 100% Clean Energy and Transportation

Plenary

Hawaii is now into its third year of carving a path to achieve its  100% renewable electricity mandate by 2045; Meanwhile, Hawaii recently became the first U.S. state to commit to 100% renewable fuel sources for public and private ground transportation, with a target of 2045. To lead the charge, the City and County of Honolulu, the County of Maui, and the County of Kauai pledged to transition all fleet vehicles to 100% renewable power by 2035. Those leading these ambitious charges discuss how they are tackling the actions necessary to achieve these historic clean energy and clean transportation commitments — including addressing the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security
  • Sustainable Tourism

Speakers

  • Joshua Stanbro
  • Gov. David Ige
  • Dawn Lippert

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3:20pm to 3:45pm
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VERGE Accelerate Showcase

Plenary

This fast-paced start-up competition provides entrepreneurs in energy, transportation, buildings, water and cybersecurity the opportunity to pitch to the VERGE audience. Industry experts provide commentary and audience votes determine the winner.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security
  • Sustainable Tourism

Speakers

  • Richard Adams
  • Dana Cotter
  • Katie Fehrenbacher

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4:15pm to 4:25pm
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VERGE Talk: Seeing is Believing — Visualizing Solutions to Hawaii's Energy Challenges

Plenary

One of the top data visualization experts in the country demonstrates what happens when you take Hawaii's expansive energy data sets and present them simply and elegantly to help the state's commissioners and policymakers make more informed decisions about models to achieve its clean energy goals.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation

Speakers

  • Jason Leigh

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4:25pm to 4:50pm
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Rebuilding for Resilience — Lessons from Puerto Rico and Beyond

Plenary

Over the course of just a few hours, Hurricane Maria exposed how fragile Puerto Rico is. Years of underinvestment in infrastructure and the recent financial crisis let the island languish, making the devastation far worse than it would have been otherwise. The storm caused the island’s entire electric grid to fail, its network of roads and highways to be disrupted, and access to clean drinking water lost. With no shortage of ideas on how to rebuild using better, stronger and cleaner technologies, who decides what gets built? How will it all be financed? And why is it taking so long? Leaders from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Transformation Advisory Council and the head of engineering at New York's major utility Con Edison (involved in the recovery of Hurricane Sandy as well as Puerto Rico's recovery) discuss their plans for a future-proofed power system and lessons learned from Puerto Rico so far.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Resilience and Security

Speakers

  • Kyle Datta
  • Sanjay Bose
  • Joel Makower
  • Rick Eckert

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Wednesday, Jun 13, 2018
8:35am to 9:00am
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Electrifying Everything: Challenges and Opportunities

Plenary

Many experts think that the fastest path to decarbonization is to electrify everything — buildings, transportation and communities. But there is danger in myopic thinking, and systemic challenges lie ahead. California and Hawaii energy leaders share their stories on how each state is tackling these barriers and creating new models to unleash profitable opportunities.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security
  • Sustainable Tourism

Speakers

  • David Hochschild
  • Jay Griffin
  • Shelee Kimura
  • Heather Clancy

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9:25am to 9:35am
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VERGE Talk: Disruptive Technologies — How GIS is Transforming Crisis Management

Plenary

The VP of Operations at the Los Angeles Homeland Security Council explains how a data-driven tool they created for the City and County of L.A. changed her community's ability to respond in emergency situations and redefined its crisis management systems — across the utilities, police, fire and other vital government departments. She tells the stories of accelerated resilience and security across various community groups and shares her lessons and resources for Hawaii and other areas in need.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security

Speakers

  • Devra Schwartz

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9:35am to 10:00am
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VERGE Accelerate Showcase

Plenary

This fast-paced start-up competition provides entrepreneurs in energy, transportation, buildings, water and cybersecurity the opportunity to pitch to the VERGE audience. Industry experts provide commentary and audience votes determine the winner.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security
  • Sustainable Tourism

Speakers

  • Greg Gaug
  • Captain La Duca
  • Katie Fehrenbacher

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10:30am to 10:45am
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Framing the Sustainability Policy Opportunity in Hawaii

Plenary

Building on a long history of systems thinking and sophisticated natural resource management, Hawaii’s leaders continue to advance the sustainability of communities, the environment, and economic prosperity. In 2016, Hawai’i passed legislation formally aligning the state with the Paris Agreement on climate change. The State legislature with elected official and public and private sector partners launched the Aloha+ Challenge, which serves as a local mechanism to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English will help frame and discuss opportunities in Hawaii that can be scaled globally.

 

 

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security
  • Sustainable Tourism

Speakers

  • Senator English
  • Joel Makower

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10:45am to 11:05am
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Sustainable Tourism: Valuing Experiences, Efficiencies and Ecosystems

Plenary

How do tourism industry stakeholders — hotels, business owners, airlines — define "sustainability" from an economic standpoint? How can leaders advance efficiency and conservation without compromising — even increasing — the experience for travelers?  What are the metrics that the industry can align on to demonstrate data-driven progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions while creating new economic opportunities?

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Sustainable Tourism

Speakers

  • Ernie Nishizaki
  • Daniella Foster
  • Heather Clancy
  • Peter Ingram

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11:30am to 11:50am
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Scaling Distributed Energy Resources to Benefit Everyone

Plenary

For Hawai‘i to achieve its 100% clean energy goal, it cannot rely solely on grid-scale projects, making Distributed Energy Resources and the end-user an important piece of the puzzle. The University of Hawai‘i Community Colleges have launched a comprehensive energy efficiency, renewable energy, and storage project - the largest behind the meter PV + storage project in Hawai‘i.  This panel will dive into the unique financial and technical components of this innovative project – from the enabling technologies to the value stacking of benefits – and share some of the important lessons learned and considerations.  Speakers will also discuss how the operation of these systems could evolve into participation in utility demand side grid services programs.  

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security
  • Sustainable Tourism

Speakers

  • Jennie Potter
  • Brian Kealoha
  • Michael Unebasami
  • Brody McMurtry

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12:30pm to 1:30pm
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VERGE Guru Lunch: Microgrids and Virtual Power Plants — Market Trends & Future Synergy

Lunch

Peter Asmus, one of the world's more well-respected analysts in microgrids and virtual power plants, will lead a roundtable discussion about the market trends and future synergies of these solutions around the world (and why they are significant for the creation of a clean energy future).

About VERGE Guru Lunches: Join like minded attendees for interactive moderated lunch discussions around a particular topic. Each table discussion will be led by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Resilience and Security

Speakers

  • Peter Asmus

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VERGE Guru Lunch: CHP Technical Assistance — Free Help from Department of Energy

Lunch

A discussion about the free technical assistance that the Department of Energy provides to evaluate combined heat and power (CHP), storage, and solar PV simultaneously as part of a nanogrid (building level) or microgrid (cluster of structures) from the Behind-The-Meter customer perspective — with the Assistant Director of the program. To date, the CHP Technical Assistance Program (TAP) has conducted more than 270 technical assistance activities and has qualified 180 MW of CHP at 113 different sites across the states of California, Hawaii, Nevada, and other US territories.

The CHP TAP screening tools provide a 360-degree view that considers the value objectives of each customer (i.e. how do I reduce my reliance on fossil fuels for electricity while still being able to provide hot water, steam, refrigeration and A/C to my customers at their ultimate comfort level?) and is designed to help building owners, hotels, hospitals, municipalities and planners quickly and easily evaluate the economics of deploying solar PV, use of renewable biogas, battery storage and most importantly, CHP for their sites. The program always identify the optimal solar PV, battery system and CHP sizing to minimize costs and maximize lifetime energy savings from both onsite electricity generation AND onsite thermal energy generation (hot water, steam, refrigeration, etc.) And the tool can also be used to size microgrids to support adjacent sites’ critical loads during a grid outage.

About VERGE Guru Lunches: Join like minded attendees for interactive moderated lunch discussions around a particular topic. Each table discussion will be led by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Resilience and Security

Speakers

  • Shawn Jones

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VERGE Guru Lunch: Lab-Based Programs to Support Startups

Lunch

Have you considered a National Lab as a resource to support your start up efforts? The US Department of Energy (DOE) has 17 National Labs. DOE and the Labs provide a range of programs that can help you access these unique capabilities including intellectual capital, equipment and facilities. Come and join the dialogue on how to take advantage of these resources.

About VERGE Guru Lunches: Join like minded attendees for interactive moderated lunch discussions around a particular topic. Each table discussion will be led by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Models for Market Transformation

Speakers

  • Richard Adams

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1:45pm to 2:45pm
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Distributed Renewables: Creating Added Value for Your Building Portfolio

Breakout
This discussion will focus on how institutional property owners and users of energy are creating additional value by installing onsite solar and storage at their properties. The session will explore the benefits landlords, tenants and users of energy are seeing by procuring their energy onsite. The panelists will deep dive further into what it takes to actually get steel in the ground - covering topics such as contract negotiation and construction, and discussing the many pitfalls to avoid.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy Systems

Speakers

  • Adam Knoff
  • Joti Mangat
  • Drew Torbin
  • Ramsey Brown

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4:30pm to 5:30pm
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How Making Sense of Building Data Can Reduce Emissions and Generate Value

Breakout

While Hawaii’s ambitious 100% RPS goal is a positive market signal for a low-carbon future in the islands, for building owners the way forward isn’t always clear. Adding to this uncertainty is the shifting regulatory landscape of energy markets in Hawaii, which clouds the financial benefits of pursuing clean energy and efficiency. To help guide their decisions, many building owners are turning to data and technology for clarity. However, trying to make sense of this glut of information often leads to further decision-paralysis, or worse — poor decisions. 

Profit-driven carbon elimination, which operates independently of public policy or utility incentives, might be the key to breaking this stalemate. In this session, leaders in asset management, hospitality, and energy services will discuss how profit-driven carbon elimination is helping stakeholders in commercial real estate, hotels, and beyond make better decisions with the data they collect to meet sustainability goals while generating long-term financial value.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Models for Market Transformation

Speakers

  • Matt Ganser
  • Eric Crispin
  • Brian Kealoha
  • Aki Marceau

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Thursday, Jun 14, 2018
8:30am to 9:30am
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Shifting the Building Industry: Integrating to Accelerate a Clean Energy Future

Breakout

Amidst unprecedented innovations in distributed energy resources, electric vehicles, and battery storage, the real estate development industry has become stagnant, and stuck in the realm of one-off net-zero energy buildings, when we should be designing net-zero, resilient communities, and utility resources. If we are to achieve environmentally resilient, socially equitable cities and communities, the building industry needs to be more proactive, disruptive, and truly integrated into the energy revolution in terms of managing loads and load shapes, shifting to electricity, connecting load to regional renewables, and working with utilities to develop rate structures that spur investment. In doing so, buildings become the conduit to capture vehicle energy, facilitate shared resources (EVs and AVs), and prioritize the integration of storage.


This session will be an interactive discussion of the partnerships and collaboration needed between the developers, architects, utilities, DER innovators, technology companies, and community leaders; a proposal for a universal net zero carbon building code, a brainstorm of opportunities and challenges to integrating all of these stakeholders during design and construction; and highlight the tools and information flow that is needed by each party. Participants will gain insight into the challenges and obstacles within the building industry and how to better leverage current innovations and new partnerships so that buildings can truly support a decarbonized society.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Models for Market Transformation

Speakers

  • Rachel Bannon-Godfrey
  • Joshua Radoff
  • Brad Jacobson

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Talking Trash: Closing the Loop on Island Waste and Energy Management

Breakout

How might we create more integrated and sustainable materials management for island communities? And what are the opportunities to create more "circular" economies by shifting our current waste-oriented paradigm? In this session, panelists from the City & County of Honolulu (owner), Closed Loop Partners (infrastructure investor), Covanta (waste-to-energy), and Renewlogy (an end user of recycled material) will discuss opportunities and inspirations for envisioning how the City and County — and other island communities — can increase recycling more cost-effectively and align waste management with clean energy and resilient infrastructure.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security

Speakers

  • Ellen Martin
  • Lori Kahikina
  • Barry Nakamoto
  • Hannah Trimble
  • Greg Gaug

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10:05am to 10:30am
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Sharing Power: Renewables, Resilience and Redefining Beauty

Plenary

On average, the poorest 20% pay the most for electricity — that’s 10% of total household income. Community power and community storage will transform access to affordable clean energy for low-income households, if we deploy equitable project finance models that scale with the market instead of depending on subsidies. Leaders from around the world discuss new project development and finance models that are transforming the economic and energy landscape in their communities. Because the place to begin to drive sharing power as an outcome across urban/rural and diverse state and utility markets is to develop the project shaped by community values, including asking "what do we have in abundance?" Examples connecting beauty to culture and reconciliation will be provided from the southern region of the U.S., Australia and Hawaii. 

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security

Speakers

  • Michelle Moore
  • Maxine Burkett
  • Frederick Redell

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10:30am to 10:40am
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VERGE Talk: Cultivating Energy Innovation in an Unlikely Place

Plenary

Alaska is at ground zero for climate change, yet its mainstay is still oil and gas. It is also the production home to 12% of the world's microgrids. How are these factors contributing toward its cleaner energy future? This is the story of how entrepreneurs, military leaders, utility operators, researchers and thought leaders are fostering an ecosystem of energy innovation in Alaska to address grid resiliency issues locally and globally. From drones to climate change mitigation, and from electrical grids to cyber security, Alaska holds value and experience that a growing entrepreneurial ecosystem is beginning to capture.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security

Speakers

  • Isaac Vanderburg

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10:40am to 11:05am
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Asia Pacific Clean Energy Pathways — Challenges, Solutions and Inspiration

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Energy and technology leaders from Australia and South Korea share their respective cautionary tales, solutions that have been successful for their respective markets, and explore the strategies and technologies that might work for Hawaii and others.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security

Speakers

  • Adam Bumpus
  • Brian Spak
  • Heather Clancy
  • John Lee

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11:05am to 11:20am
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Bridge to Hawaii's Future — Lessons from the Next Generation

Plenary

Hawaii is pursuing a clean energy future that is fast approaching. Those who will carry the renewable electricity torch are just steps away from assuming the responsibility of leading in this industry. The reach of renewables development in Hawaii is broad — from policy to technology and social equity to fragile island ecologies — and tomorrow’s leaders will have a lot to address. So, what is being done to equip future generations with the tools necessary to seamlessly fold into the face-paced, technology-centric clean energy transformation?

This is a snap shot of what Hawaii’s youth envision for their clean energy future. Student leaders from across the state will share how they are preparing to take on the responsibility of equitable renewable energy development, as well as what Hawaii’s Youth need from today’s leaders to secure professionally viable options to remain in Hawaii and thrive in the developing clean energy ecosystem.  

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security
  • Sustainable Tourism

Speakers

  • Luis Salaveria
  • Hina Chow
  • Annika Berezney
  • Jenna Takata

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11:20am to 11:30am
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Performance: SHOCKA — The Story of Energy in Hawaii

Plenary

A short, high-energy rock musical number with choreography from Honolulu Theatre for Youth — a professional theatre production. An inspiring case study of how partners nationally and locally can work together to integrate arts and educational messages to inspire multi-generational solutions as the islands transition to 100% clean energy.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security
  • Sustainable Tourism

Speakers

  • Eric Johnson
  • Alvin Chan
  • Jocelyn Ishihara
  • Hermenigildo "Junior" Tesoro
  • Christina Uyeno
  • Sean-Joseph Choo

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11:30am to 12:00pm
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Closing: Making It Happen — The Road Ahead

Plenary

Last December, Hawaii became the first U.S. state to commit to 100% renewable fuel sources for public and private ground transportation, with a target of 2045 (and a pledge to transition all fleet vehicles to 100% renewables by 2035). This was not only historic, but an incredibly ambitious proclamation by the state's four mayors. As the cities and counties of Hawaii begin transforming their fleets and infrastructure to meet these goals as well as the Governor's 100% RPS, we close out the show with thoughts from the island leaders about the power of local action in the context of global sustainability, resiliency and economic security.

Tracks

  • Building Efficiency
  • Decarbonizing Transportation
  • Distributed Energy Systems
  • Grid-Scale Power
  • Models for Market Transformation
  • Resilience and Security
  • Sustainable Tourism

Speakers

  • Mayor Arakawa
  • Jon Nouchi
  • Ron Whitmore
  • Ben Sullivan
  • Joel Makower

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