Alyssa Edwards
Senior Vice President of Environmental and External Affairs
Lightsource bp
Siting & Permitting Conference
Built to Power
Sold Out
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.
ACP’s Siting & Permitting Conference will be hosted in Seattle, WA next year from April 14 – 16.
2025 Program Co-Chairs
Andrea Giampoli
Vice President, Environmental Compliance and Strategy
Invenergy LLC
The Call for Speakers is now closed.
The momentum around clean energy project development hinges on permitting and siting solutions. Working together as an industry to share insights and best practices, we can make greater progress.
The 2025 Siting & Permitting Conference will be broken out into three program tracks:
Natural and Cultural Resources
Community, Tribal Partners, and Stakeholder Engagement
Emerging Technology and Policy
View the full list of key program focus areas below! If you applied to speak at this year’s event, decision notifications will go out in December 2024.
Key Program Changes & Focus Areas for 2025
New Session Formats: The 2025 event will feature a variety of session formats.
- Panel Session: Standard panel sessions will still make up the majority of sessions. These structured conversations feature a group of experts or thought leaders to share their perspectives on a specific topic.
- POWER Talks: These 30-minute TED-style talks will feature dynamic speakers for cutting-edge, engaging insights on a particular topic or case study.
- Tutorials & Roundtables: Speakers for these sessions will share insights from case studies and real-world experiences. Sessions may include breakout groups, tutorials and other interactive activities.
Community, Tribal Partners, and Stakeholder Engagement Track
- Combating Misinformation about Clean Energy
- Fundamentals of a Land Campaign and Processes for Better Community Engagement
- Partnerships with NGO Communities and Industry
- Engagement with Tribal Governments
- Environmental Justice: Energy Communities, Redevelopment, Workforce Training / Storage
- Effective Communication with Agricultural Stakeholders
- Preparing Landowners and Community Stakeholders for Beyond Development
Emerging Technology and Policy Track
- Local Permitting by Jurisdiction, Comparison of Processes
- Regional and State Siting Guidelines and Legislation
- Long-distance/Multi-state Transmission Specific Challenges/Policy
- Strategies and Approaches for Wildlife and Natural Resources Permitting in a New Administration
- Policy of Siting on Brownfields, Tribal Brownfields, and Disturbed Lands
- Agrivoltaics Policies, Market Incentives, and Implementation
- Optimizing GIS, Satellite Imagery, and Lidar in Siting
- Programmatic Permitting for Wildlife
- Radar, Airspace and Communication Issues
- Distinguishing Repowering from New Development
- Planning and Siting to Mitigate Fire Risk
Natural and Cultural Resources Track
- Wildlife Behavior and Designing Clean Energy and Transmission to Minimize Disturbance
- Wildlife Habitat Restoration and Mitigation
- Siting Clean Energy in a Changing Climate (Natural Disasters, Insurance)
- Vegetation Establishment, Maintenance, and Landscape Screening
- Stormwater Management Planning and Achieving Notice of Termination
- Permitting on Public Lands: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Affecting Federal Lands and Federal Permitting
- The New Methods: Measuring Biodiversity and Soil Health Improvements at Solar Sites for ESG
- Cultural Resources and Nationwide Permits (NWP)/Clean Water Act (CWA) Permitting
- Managing Monarchs and other Listed Insects at Generation Facilities and in Rights-of-Way
- Nuisance Species Management
2024 Highlights
2024 Schedule At-a-Glance
Monday, March 117:00 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 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 |
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 & 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. |
Presenting Sponsors
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.
