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Wednesday, September 6

8:00 – Complimentary Breakfast
9:00 – Welcome & Keynote
Speaker: Senator Troy Singleton (Majority Whip, NJ State Senate)

10:00 – Panel
National Funding, Local Impact: Deploying Federal Incentives at State Energy Offices
Speakers: David Althoff (PA DEP), Maddie Koewler (NASEO), & Catherine Klinger (Gov. Murphy’s Governor’s Office of Climate Action)
Moderator: Camille Moore (American Association of Blacks in Energy)

11:15 – Panel
Perspectives on Decarbonization
Speakers: Patrick Migliaccio (NJ Natural Gas), Carolyn Sloan (Oracle), Leo Sommaripa (DNV), & J.R. Tolbert (Advanced Energy United).
Moderator: Theo Love (Green Energy Economics Group)

12:30 – Lunch

1:45 – Panel
New Jersey’s Energy Efficiency Landscape
Speakers:  Mike Ambrosio (NJCEP), Susanna Chiu (PSE&G), Anne-Marie Peracchio (NJNG), & Stacy Ho Richardson (BPU)
Moderator: John Kolesnik (EEA, KEEA, & EEA-NJ)

3:15 – Panel
Pennsylvania’s Energy Efficiency Landscape
Speakers: Rob Altenburg (PennFuture), Kathy MacWilliams (PECO), & Tom McAteer (PPL)
Moderator: Andrew Dieck (Performance Systems Development)

4:30 – Networking Happy Hour

Thursday, September 7

8:00 – Complimentary Breakfast

9:00 – Second Keynote
Speaker: Christine Guhl-Sadovy (Commissioner, NJBPU)

9:45 – Panel
Multiple Challenges, Multiple Opportunities: Energy Efficiency & Multifamily
Speakers: John Jensen (MaGrann Associates), Lindsey Samsi (Pennrose), Lisa Shulock (Philadelphia Energy Authority), & Brendan Thomas (CMC Energy)
Moderator: Julie de Seve (CLEAResult)

11:15 – Panel
Raising the Bar: Pushing Building Performance Standards With Emerging Strategies
Speakers: Philip Chao (BPU), Amanda Clevinger (Bright Power), Alex Dews (IMT), & Luke Surowiec (ICF)
Moderator: Renwick Paige (EIP)

12:30 – Lunch

1:45 – Panel
Distributed Energy Resources
Speakers: Baird Brown (Eco(n)law), Elowyn Corby (Vote Solar), Manuel Esquivel (Enel), & Russ Newbold (C-Power)
Moderator: Kevin Warren (Warren Energy)

3:00 – Closing Keynote Speaker & Remarks

4:30 – Dismissal

*Please note that schedule, content, and speakers are subject to change

SEI is sharing this event for the County.

The Sustainability Summit will take place at Penn State University, Great Valley.

Follow this link for more information https://www.chescoplanning.org/AboutUs/SustainabilitySummit.cfm

Save the Date! Chester County’s first-ever Sustainability Summit will be held on Tuesday, September 26th from 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at Penn State Great Valley’s Conference Center.

To support the implementation of the county’s Climate Action Plan, this free event will feature engaging presentations that municipalities, businesses, institutions, non-profits, and anyone who loves our planet can use related to energy efficiency and renewable energy, vehicle fleet transition to alternative fuels, sustainable landscape options, and funding and financing opportunities and local case studies for all of these topics (plus more!). A full agenda and registration will be posted in August.

World Geothermal Day is September 4th! Hold the date and follow the link below for more information.

https://worldcogenerationday.org/

On this one day, we celebrate the resiliency and sustainability of cogeneration. We celebrate its people and share with the world how CHP serves humanity. Celebrants take to schools, cafes, internet, offices, power plants, and airwaves to teach us what is obvious. If we work together, using resilient, energy-efficient, and sustainable cogeneration, we can tackle the future and enhance the environment that sustains us. Conventional, Bio-gas, Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), and Hydrogen all offer us sustainable and resilient CHP. This one day helps us to pursue a “green  future”, showing that sustainable, resilient energy supplies enable healthy environments.

PA Geo members may RSVP to scockerham@ccedcpa.com

Interested in attending as a guest to learn more about PA Geo? contact jlauckner@ccedcpa.com.

Our next PA Geo meeting will take place at the CCEDC in Exton with light food courtesy of SEI, and adult beverages courtesy of J*Lis Management. If you need to participate remotely, email Sherry Cockerham, SEI Coordinator at scockerham@ccedcpa.com for a zoom link.

A full agenda will be available soon.

Topics will include:

• Share what is happening in your business – successes and challenges.
• SEI Clean Energy Grant aims to help Chester, Berks and Montgomery county businesses through increased connections to local partners and training opportunities, deployment of work-based training models and upskilling methods, and expanded access to career pathway development in the industry. Find out how SEI can help you grow your business by going to the link above, or emailing jlauckner@ccedcpa.com.
• Are you training your employees, or yourself before June 15, or have you completed any training since April 1, 2023? We want to help! Topics included in the grant are wide and Jim and Sherry can help guide you in the quick application to get up to 50% back on your training costs.
• In addition to our grant funding available we want to make you and your employees aware of free courses available. SkillUp™ PA provides access to FREE, online job skills training to Pennsylvania residents!? Strengthen your #JobSkills with access to over 6,000 flexible, self-directed, web-based courses. Courses are available on the Metrix Learning Portal and can be accessed by registering for a free account.

Are you hiring, or know of anyone hiring to refer to our upcoming Business Networking event? Hire One Business Networking, June 22 from 5-7PM at CCEDC, Exton. It is not a job fair, but in the spirit of networking and sharing contacts. It is not just who is in the room, but who they can introduce you to, so you may fill your open positions. Light food and adult beverages will be served. https://Hire_One_Business_Networking_June_22.eventbrite.com

Stay plugged in!

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/SmartEnergyPA
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/smart-energy-initiative-of-southeastern-pennsylvania
Twitter – https://twitter.com/SmartEnergyPA?s=20
You Tube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgUaVxld48HVUOS21MjmgXw/featured
Website – https://smartenergypa.org/

William Ronayne, President PAGEO

Register>> https://ccls.libcal.com/event/10665440

Come learn about energy conservation, efficiency, and electrification from PECO energy experts, and how you can put the pieces together to significantly reduce the energy costs for your home or business while also reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. Rebates from PECO and recently announced incentives from the Federal government and other programs will also be discussed. Follow on seminars will discuss heat pumps, solar panels, geothermal systems, electric vehicles and vehicle chargers. This event is held in partnership with Northern Chester County Clean Energy Future and West Vincent, East Pikeland, Schuylkill and West Pikeland townships.

This is a hybrid event–register to attend in person at the library or online via Zoom. Registered attendees will recieve a Zoom link to join the program two hours before the progam is scheduled to start. You do not need a Zoom account to attend this program online.

Learn more and register: https://secure.everyaction.com/OrFi4HOHqEWvb-vgnWtlxg2

This event is for a specific audience of government officials, economic development practitioners and others in our partner networks with direct interest in the topic. Please feel free to forward to your networks!

Guest speakers:

-Jacob Hannah, Coalfield Development, West Virginia

-Flore Marion & Will Bernstein, City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

-Mayor Steve Patterson, City of Athens Ohio

-Others TBD

Our partners at Green Build United are promoting their 2023 Sustainability Symposium taking place at Drexel University.

This year’s Symposium will cover topics including innovative green building, sustainability and industry best practices, city-level decarbonization, public funding and financing, community climate resiliency, integrated building design, indoor air quality, Passive House, Living Building Challenge, green stormwater infrastructure, legislation, and so much more! Attendees will hear directly from experts across our region and beyond in discussion around new projects, opportunities for social, environmental, and economic impact, and how communities are applying innovative solutions throughout the sustainability field.

Learn more and REGISTER