“New York is making high-stakes energy decisions that will affect reliability, affordability, resilience, and economic opportunity for decades,” said Jan Woodcock, director of operations for UAlbany’s Center of Excellence in Weather & Climate Analytics. “The Clean Energy Pathways Workshop is designed to bring diverse perspectives into the same room so we can have a practical conversation about the challenges, tradeoffs, and opportunities ahead.”
New York’s energy system is at an inflection point. The state must make major grid-investment decisions, advance decarbonization, expand clean-energy and energy-storage development and respond to changing policy, market and technology conditions, all while protecting reliability and affordability for residents, businesses and communities.
“The workshop will bring together experts and innovators to examine potential pathways forward and the hurdles that must be addressed,” said Bruce Bailey, executive in residence at the Center of Excellence in Weather & Climate Analytics. “Discussions will include grid reliability and resilience; energy affordability; transmission and distribution investment; clean-energy and storage development; policy and market-rule changes; and the strategies organizations need to adapt, compete, and lead through the transition.”
Attendees will have access to all workshop sessions, including keynotes and panel discussions; networking opportunities with industry leaders and peers; breakfast, lunch, coffee and refreshment breaks; and the evening reception.
For registration, speaker updates, agenda information and additional event details, visit: weatheranalytics.org/2026-renewable-energy-conference