Siting & Permitting Conference 2024

March 11 - 13, 2024   |   Colorado Springs, CO   |   The Broadmoor

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Event in 2023 & 2024

1000+

attendees in 2024

32

exhibitors in 2024

100+

speakers across 2 program tracks in 2024

The spotlight has never shined brighter on clean energy project siting and permitting.

While clean energy projects are pouring into the pipeline, the industry is experiencing unprecedented delays across the country.

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

The view from ACP's Siting Conference in Albuquerque, NM

A standing ovation at ACP's 2023 Siting conference

A Tribal leader during his remarks at the 2023 Siting Conference

A panel at ACP's 2023 Siting Conference

A women presenting a poster to two men at ACP's 2023 Siting Conference.

Jenny McIvor, Winner of the 2023 Andrew Linehan Award at Siting 2023

A group of people networking in the exhibit hall at Siting 2023

The networking breakfast in the exhibit hall at Siting 2023

A panel at ACP's 2023 Siting conference

2024 Schedule at-a-Glance

Monday, March 11

7:00 am – 5:00 pm | Registration Open

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Pre-Conference Seminars

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Opening Reception

Tuesday, March 12

6:30 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 13

7:00 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

2024 Location - The Broadmoor

The 2024 Siting & Permitting Conference took place at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

An ariel shot of The Broadmoor hotel.

2024 Exhibitors

ACP’s 2024 Siting & Permitting Conference was 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.

 

View all of our exhibitors here

A women presenting a poster to two men at ACP's 2023 Siting Conference.

2024 Power Up 5K Run and 2.5K Walk

Thank you to the nearly 100 attendees who came out on Tuesday morning to participate in our Power Up 5K run and 2.5K walk around beautiful Colorado Springs!

2024 Pre-Conference Programs | Monday, March 11 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM MT

The 2024 Siting & Permitting Conference featured two SOLD OUT pre-conference seminars. Attendees at these interactive, small-group programs explored timely topics in depth with subject matter experts and got to know peers with similar interests before the main program began.

SOLD OUT | Winning Community Support: Addressing Opposition & Misinformation 

Learn 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 Efforts 

Monitoring 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.

 

2024 Presenting Sponsor

2024 Sponsors

2024 Media Partners

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.

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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.

A packed hotel ballroom at ACP's 2023 Siting & Environmental Compliance Conference

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.

Recipient of ACP's Andrew Linehan Award for Environmental Excellence.
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