Tuesday, September 19 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM | Reading Room, UCONN School of Law

CPES and New England Women in Energy and the Environment (NEWIEE) hosted our ninth annual joint event on Tuesday, September 19. The panel discussion featured leaders from Massachusetts and Connecticut who discussed long-duration storage and its role as New England works toward a decarbonized electric system.

Energy storage is one of the most crucial and complex challenges of the clean energy transition. To meet Massachusetts’ and Connecticut’s ambitious decarbonization goals, long-duration storage technologies will need to be commercially ready, at scale, in the next decade. Panelists explored the complex trade-offs in cost, feasibility, scalability, and carbon reduction associated with storage.

Keynote:
Weezie Nuara, Assistant Secretary for Federal and Regional Energy Affairs at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs

Panelists:
Sarah Jackson, Policy Manager for the Eastern Region at Form Energy
Joanna Troy, Director, Energy Policy and Planning at the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
Hossein Ghezel-Ayagh, Vice President, Advanced Technology Programs at FuelCell Energy, Inc.

Moderated by:
Marissa Paslick Gillett, Chairman of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority