ACP's Siting & Permitting Conference 2024

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.

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Our 2024 Program Co-Chairs

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 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

View the full 2024 agenda

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.

Presenting Sponsors

2024 Sponsors

2024 Media Partners

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.

View the 2023 recap

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.

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