Siting & Permitting Conference 2024
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The spotlight has never shined brighter on clean energy project siting and permitting.
Getting projects off the ground is becoming more and more challenging. At ACP’s expanded Siting & Permitting Conference, previously known as the Siting & Environmental Compliance Conference, industry leaders, experts, and stakeholders convene to collaborate on challenges, best practices and solutions.
Our 2024 Program Co-Chairs
Highlights from Last Year
2024 Schedule at-a-Glance
Monday, March 117:00 am – 5:00 pm | Registration Open 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | Pre-Conference Tour (Tentative) 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Pre-Conference Seminars 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Opening Reception |
Tuesday, March 126:30 am – 7:30 am | Networking 5K run and 2.5K Walk sponsored by Ironwood Consulting 7:00 am – 5:00 pm | Registration Open 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Networking Breakfast 7:30 am – 6:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Open 8:30 am – 10:00 am | Welcome & Keynote Remarks 10:30 am – 4:45 pm | Programming, Lunch & Networking 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm | Networking & Poster Reception |
Wednesday, March 137:00 am – 10:00 am | Registration Open 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Networking Breakfast 8:30 am – 5:45 pm | Exhibit Hall Open 8:30 am – 4:45 pm | Programming, Lunch & Networking |
Key Program Focus Areas
Multi-Technology
- Permitting Solutions
- Biology, Behavior, and Wildlife Issues (Bats, Eagles, Fish, Big Game, Small Mammals, and Other Species)
- Community Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Local Affairs
- Construction Planning and Implementation
- Decommissioning and Disposal: Reduce, Reuse, Recycling (Innovations and Public Policy)
- Emerging Technologies (Monitoring, Detection, Minimization, Mitigation, Avoidance)
- Landscape-Scale Planning Opportunities and Challenges
- Policy and Regulatory Reforms
- Programmatic Tools
- Radar, Airspace, and Communications Compatibility with Clean Energy Deployment and Operations
- Siting Guidelines: Challenges, Opportunities, and Case Studies of Success
- Tribal Engagement: Stakeholders, Opportunities and Challenges
Energy Storage
- Siting Flexibility of Energy Storage
- Evolving State Rules on Energy Storage Permitting
- Incorporating Safety Best Practices into Energy Storage Siting & Permitting Rules
- Safety by Design — How Developers Build Safety Features into Site Plans
Solar Energy
- Terrestrial Species Movement and Interaction with Solar Facilities
- Safe Harbor and Candidate Conservation Agreements alongside Section 10 Reform
- Managing Wildlife Use around Solar Facilities during Construction and Operations
- Vegetation Establishment: Challenges and Solutions in Utility-Scale Projects
- Conversion of Farmland for Solar Development
- Stormwater Management Planning and Implementation at Utility-Scale Projects
Wind Energy
- Taller Turbines and Repowering – Permitting Policy and Environmental Considerations
2024 Location - The Broadmoor
The 2024 Siting & Permitting Conference will take place at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Discounted conference hotel rates are available until Monday, February 5, 2024, or until the discounted rooms sell out to registered conference attendees.
Activities at the Broadmoor
During your stay at the conference hotel, you’ll discover an array of thrilling activities and adventures awaiting you. Click here to explore the adventures offered at The Broadmoor.
Things to See & Do in Colorado Springs
Exquisite natural landscapes, rich Western history and impressive cultural offerings are just a few things that attract visitors from near and far to Colorado Springs, Olympic City USA, nestled at the foot of Pikes Peak one hour from Denver. Click here for more information.
2024 Exhibitors
ACP’s 2024 Siting & Permitting Conference is a one-stop-shop for addressing substantial barriers across energy storage, solar, wind & transmission project deployment.
Looking to improve your project siting services & software? Visit the 20+ exhibitors to check out their offerings.
Power Up 5K Run and 2.5K Walk
Who: Open to all conference attendees! All paces welcome.
When: 6:30AM on Tuesday, March 12
Kick off the Tuesday morning right by joining like-minded colleagues for a morning 5K run or 2.5K walk around Colorado Springs! A limited number of athletic t-shirts will be available – made possible by our generous sponsor, Ironwood Consulting. T-shirts are only guaranteed to those who register before February 26, 2024.
Pre-Conference Programs | Monday, March 11 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM MT
Add one of the two pre-conference programs to your registration to supercharge your learnings at #ACPSiting24.
Go outside the bounds of the main agenda and take an off-grid topical deep-dive before the official conference begins. These extended programs explore topics that need more than a typical conference session to fully explore are an additional $75.
Winning Community Support: Addressing Opposition & MisinformationLearn from the experts on how to develop persuasive messaging, engage trusted, influential voices to build support for renewable energy deployment in rural communities, and understand how to effectively educate decision-makers about the benefits of renewable energy projects. Leave the workshop having gained knowledge around successful tactics and tools to understand the on-the-ground challenges and how to adjust strategy to be more successful. |
Making the Most of Post-Construction Monitoring EffortsMonitoring is widely used and intended to evaluate the impact of human activity on wildlife. However, monitoring is costly and becomes an inefficient use of resources if the results are not informing management decisions. Data from monitoring efforts is collected in several repositories and databases, which can inform our understanding of renewable energy-wildlife interactions and help develop strategies to minimize negative impacts and overcome permitting hurdles. This interactive workshop will bring together experts from several renewable-energy wildlife data repositories as well as experts in data collection, management, and analyses to discuss the barriers that limit the usefulness of current available monitoring data and potential pathways for a process to make the best use of this information moving forward. |
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It is an exciting time to be in the clean energy industry—especially in the environmental field.
Read this blog from Scott Dawson, one of our 2024 Program Co-Chairs, about how Siting and Permitting conference is the place to hear about the issues currently facing the industry and discover and discuss innovative solutions to address them.
Siting 2023
Thank you for making #ACPsiting23 such a success. With more than 600 attendees, over 60 speakers, 16 exhibitors, and 15 sessions, 2023 was bigger and better than ever. In fact, the event last year sold out.
Session topics from last year’s event included biology and wildlife, community engagement and local affairs, emerging technologies, policy and regulatory reforms, promoting energy storage safety through partnerships, landscape-scale planning opportunities and challenges, tribal engagement, environmental justice, and more.
Congratulations, Jenny McIvor, 2023 Winner of the Andrew Linehan Award
This award is presented in memory of Andrew “Andy” Linehan to those leaders in the permitting and environmental community who go above and beyond in their positions and are constantly striving to improve the siting practices of the clean energy industry, create or support innovative conservation opportunities for renewable energy projects, and elevate and foster lines of communication and collaboration among renewable energy and wildlife stakeholders. It is such thought leaders that help to preserve the collective brand image that sets this industry apart from other forms of energy generation.
Join top developers and experts to address crucial siting and environmental compliance topics.
ACP’s Siting and Permitting Conference is the place where industry leaders, experts and stakeholders address crucial clean energy siting, permitting, community engagement & environmental compliance topics.
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