Pathway to 2050 Event Will Help Accelerate California’s Advanced Energy Economy

The Pathway to 2050 event will be held in Sacramento, California on August 11, 2016. This annual event brings together advanced energy business leaders and policymakers to discuss opportunities to accelerate California’s economy through the growth of advanced energy.

At Pathway to 2050, there will be plenty of networking opportunities to meet with others in the advanced energy industry as well as state policymakers. Confirmed speakers include Kevin Self, SVP at Schneider-Electric; Michael Wheeler, VP, Policy, Recurrent Energy; Lawrence Lingbloom, Chief Consultant, California Assembly Natural Resources Committee; Commissioner Andrew McAllister, California Energy Commission; JP McNeill, CEO, Renovate America; and dozens more.

One of the discussions I’m most excited about is the session Pathways and Pitfalls: Media Perspectives on California Policy and Politics. This panel will be facilitated by Robert Keough, VP, Communications at AEE, and will include the following panelists:

• Kate Galbraith, Assistant Business Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
• Dan Morain, Editorial Page Editor, Political Affairs Columnist, and Editorial Writer, Sacramento Bee
• Jeff St. John, Senior Editor, Greentech Media
• Cassandra Sweet, Reporter, Wall Street Journal

Check out the full 2016 Agenda here

About the AEE:

Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) is a national association of business leaders who are making the global energy system more secure, clean, and affordable. Advanced energy encompasses a broad range of products and services that constitute the best available technologies for meeting energy needs today and tomorrow. Among these are energy efficiency, demand response, energy storage, natural gas electric generation, solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, electric vehicles, biofuels and smart grid.

AEE engages in policy advocacy at the federal, state, and regulatory levels; CEO-to-CEO convenings to identify and address cross-industry issues; and targeted outreach to key stakeholder groups and policymakers.

They also work with a growing coalition of state and regional partner organizations across states and industries to help the advanced energy industry succeed nationwide.

Find out more about AEE on their blog, or follow them on Twitter.