Save the Date for CUB’s 11th Annual Policy Conference on October 15, 2021
Posted on May 26, 2021 by Amelia Lamb
Tags, Energy, Conference & Events
Save the date for the 2021 CUB Policy Conference: CUB’s 11th annual energy policy conference will start at 9:30am on Friday, October 15!
We are pleased to announce this year’s conference theme: Changing Climates: Reliability and Resilience in our Energy Systems. Increasingly, the Pacific Northwest sees the impacts of climate change in real time. Recently, catastrophic wildfires and wind and ice storms have placed a massive strain on our energy systems. In severe cases, customers have been left without power for days or weeks on end. Meanwhile, our policy climate is shifting decidedly toward a model of 100% clean electricity. Increasing reliance on variable resources raises questions of resource adequacy and reliability. How can we reliably heat and cool everyone’s homes, while keeping service affordable for all? How can we ensure we are making the proper investments for affordable decarbonization? How can we ensure that consumers aren’t left stranded by changing energy systems? In short: can we pull off a future without climate pollution?
Beyond the lessons learned from natural disasters and other unforeseen events in the Pacific Northwest, what can we learn from other regions as well, such as the rolling blackouts that were imposed on California and the frozen natural gas wells supplying Texas? Energy system resilience is another essential piece of the puzzle, but whose interests are served by the resilience conversation as it is shaped today? How can we ensure communities have access to affordable energy? How do we ensure that customer needs are actually being met, and account for all vulnerabilities in the system, from the point of generation to the customer’s home?
We look forward to discussing these and other questions throughout the day. After our successful online conference in 2020, CUB knows that it can provide excellent content and learning opportunities in any format. This year’s conference will be held using a state-of-the-art video conference platform, ensuring safety and accessibility for as many people as possible. You can also count on experiencing the CUB Conference’s unique mix of panel conversations among industry experts and dynamic presentations, with opportunities for Q&A at the end of every panel session.
The CUB Policy Conference is designed to educate energy and utility policy analysts, attorneys, advocates, regulators, and others working in and around the energy industry. CUB plans to apply for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits for this event from the Oregon Bar Association.
Details on the day’s agenda, video conference platform access, and registration will be shared in the coming weeks, so stay tuned. For convenient CUB conference updates right in your inbox, sign up for our Policy Conference email list. You can also find CUB Conference news on Twitter at #CUBCon21.
Sponsorship packages for this event are available at several levels. We could not present the CUB Conference without the generous support of our sponsors, and each sponsorship tier offers a variety of partner benefits. For information about sponsoring the 2021 CUB Conference, contact Office Manager Thomas Jerin at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (503) 227-1984 ext. 0.
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05/26/21 | 0 Comments | Save the Date for CUB’s 11th Annual Policy Conference on October 15, 2021