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Recordings from the conference are available to anyone who registered by August 2, 2021. Public recordings will be available in August 2022.
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Presentations from SOLAR 2021:
Tuesday Sessions
SOLAR 2021 Opening Reception:
Carly Rixham, Executive Director, ASES
Wednesday Sessions
Opening Keynote Session:
Dave Renné, Leader in IRENA Coalition for Action and Immediate Past President of the International Solar Energy Society
Modeling and Scaling Track: Community Solar via Micro/Mini/Macrogrids:
Matt DaCorte, Project Coordinator at Meriden Housing Authority
Zach Emond, Co-founder and CEO at RPSi
Social/Environmental Justice Track: LMI Community Strategies:
Kimberly Shields, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Energy Outreach Colorado
Rich Strömberg, Program Director, Faculty and Doctoral Student at Equitable Solar Solutions/Coldharbour Inst./Western Colorado University/University Alaska Fairbanks
Yesenia Rivera, Director of Energy Equity and Inclusion at Solar United Neighbors
Dan Shea, CEO QD Solar Inc.
Eduardo Rincón-Mejía, Professor at Autonomous University of México City
Kerry Rippy, Post Doc at NREL
Samuel Schreiber, PhD Student at CU Boulder
Colorado Spotlight Session:
Adrienne Dorsey, Executive Director at GRID Alternatives Colorado
Diego Lopez, Executive Director at Northern Colorado Clean Cities
Suzanne Jones, Past Mayor of Boulder | ECO-CYCLE Boulder
Sustainability Track: Sustainable Buildings:
Ash Ragheb, Lawrence Technological University
Dale Miller, University of Colorado Boulder
Steve Stevens, Founder, Chief Sustainabilist, Curator
William Young, Florida Solar Energy Center
Modeling & Scaling Track: Grid Scale via Modeling Tools:
Brock Mosovsky, VP of Analytics at cQuant.ioRisk Management and Procurement Strategies for Solar-Heavy Portfolios
James Stalker, President & CEO at RESPRThe Stalker Method for CFD/NWP Modeling Approach for Solar Energy
Jesse Duroha, University of Rhode IslandQuality Assurance and Metrics Associated with Solar Farm Production
Jill Cliburn, Cliburn and Associates, LLCSolar-Plus-Storage Innovation in Rural America And a Project Modeling Tool That Supports It
Nir Krakauer, City College of New YorkSolar and wind resources during heat extremes
Richard Wilk, Union CollegeReflector-Enhanced Bifacial PV
Policy, Education & Finance Track: Economic, Workforce, and Environmental Impacts:
Matt Stern, Philadelphia Energy AuthorityBright Solar Futures: The country’s most advanced high school solar program
Milton Newberry, Sustainable Technology Director at Bucknell UniversitySustainability Experiential Learning Laboratory – A Method for SELLing Photovoltaic Technology and Education to College Students
Remilekun Akinwonmi, Programs Associate at ASESDesign of Carbon Footprint Calculator
Poster Session:
Bianca Paola Meneses Brassea, Aliakbar Akbarzadeh, Peter Golding
Modeling and Scaling Track: Sustainable Resource Planning & Capture:
Emma Hubbard, Electra TechElectra Sun The Bolt Box and Mini Box
James Moran, Advanced Energy GroupThe Sol-AG Solar Aquaponic Greenhouse
Joachim Seel, Lawrence Berkeley National LabElectricity Markets & Policy
Nico Bouwkamp, Technical Program Manager at Frontier EnergyRenewable Hydrogen at Scale in Texas and Beyond
Timothy Dewitt from August Mack Environmental, IncMaywood Solar Project From Concept to Design and Installation
Sustainability Track: Electric Vehicles:
Brian Ross, Great Plains InstituteEV Charging and the Distribution Grid… And Solar
James Beregi, Solar Transportation TechnologiesNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICE – NTS
Matthew Metz, ColturaFROM GASOLINE TO SOLAR: Repowering the Clean Car Future
Solar Advancements Track: Solar Novelty/Safety:
Brian Ross, Great Plains InstitutePV-SMaRT: Photovoltaic Stormwater Management Research and Testing
Brian Wieliczka NRELQuantum Dot Photovoltaics: Understanding and Improving
David Ginley, NRELDeveloping an approach for energy carriers: Imagining Beyond Thermochemical Cycles
Qiuming Yu, Cornell UniversityLead-Free Perovskites for Stable and Highly Efficient Solar Cells
Thursday Sessions
Social & Environmental Justice Keynote:
Henry Red Cloud, Executive Director at Red Cloud Renewable
Monique Dyers, President/CEO at Ensight Energy Consulting
Pilar Thomas, Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Practice Group
Modeling & Scaling Track: Grid Integrat ion and Maintenance:
Ben Glenzer, Solar Solutions For All
James Hyungkwan Kim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mark Bolinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yacob Hiben, Mekelle University
Solar Advancements Track: Solar Economics:
Dirk Jordan, NREL
Grant Hilti, Heliospekt LLC
Henry Vandermark, Solar Wave Energy, Inc.
Spencer Fields, Manager of Market Strategy and Intelligence at EnergySage
Policy, Education & Finance Track: Federal, State, and Local Policies/Programs:
Alison Mason, SunJuice Solar LLC
David Comis & Abigail Antonini, Maryland Energy Administration
David Golembeski, The Solar Foundation
Emily Robichaux, Groundswell
Vicky Mandell, Mandell Law Firm
Policy, Education & Finance Track: Financing Clean Energy:
Gerald Bernstein, Interfaith Power and Light
Sydney Muñoz, Re-volv
Patrick Thompson, AppleSEEd Energy Transition
Philippe Hartley, CleanFinancing LLC
Raphael Schiffman, New Energy Equity
Social/Environmental Justice Track: Tribal & Rural Advances:
Johnny Weiss, Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center
Mark Nabong, Monotreme Consulting
Renee Millard-Chacon, Spirit of the Sun
~switch Session:
Aaron Boon, Environmental Solutions and Innovations, Inc.
Andy Bingle, Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center
Anita Ledbetter, Build San Antonio Green
Carol Flueckiger, Texas Tech University
Dave Finnigan, Green Actioneers
Joseph Simon, NREL
Narelle Kipple, ASES National Solar Tour Director
Sarah Younger, Living Arts Meta Programs, Inc.
Vince Lucia, Good Sun Solar State University
Sustainability Track: Responsible Solar:
Amanda Cotton, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Kate Collardson; BayWa RE
Paulo Soares, Graduate Student, The Pennsylvania State University
Victor Olgyay, Rocky Mountain Institute
William Young, Florida Solar Energy Center
Monique Dyers, President & CEO, Ensight Energy Consulting, LLC
Alan Bigelow, Science Director at Solar Cookers International
Policy, Education & Finance Track: Youth Energy Education and Development:
Brian Wieliczka, NREL
Bronte Payne, Environment America
Laura Tellez, Solar United Neighbors
Mark Weber, Minnesota Renewable Energy Society (MRES)
Numair Latif, UNM
Rachel Romero, NREL
Friday Sessions
Nuances of Residential Battery System Design Forum:
Ian Skor, Sandbox Solar; Leland Keller, Fort Collins Utilities; Matt Scherer, REenergizeCO
ASES Membership Meeting & Lunch:
Carly Cipolla, ASES Director of Operations; Carly Rixham, ASES Executive Director; Joshua Peterson, ASES Board Treasurer; Narelle Kipple, ASES Membership & Programs Coordinator; Robert Foster, ASES Board Chair; Sarah Townes, ASES CFO & ZEN Director