2024 Solar & Storage Conferences – Will You Be There? Brit Heller After a few years with no in-person gatherings during the pandemic, solar and storage conferences have been slowly coming back in 2023 and certainly now in full force in 2024. Conferences are great because not only do they support professional development by providing top notch educational sessions including the latest industry insights, technological advancements, and strategic visions to get more renewable energy on our electrical grid, they also have the unique opportunity for networking and building partnerships across the rapidly growing solar and storage industries. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of solar and storage conferences happening in North America in 2024. Will you be at any of these? January RE+ Community Energy – San Diego, CA – January 10-11 Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America – San Diego, CA – January 17-19 RE+ Hawai’i – Honolulu, HI- January 22-23 February RE+ Northeast – Boston, MA – February 13-14 Operations, Maintenance and Safety Conference – San Diego, CA – February 21-23 Solar Power and Energy Storage Mountain West Conference – Denver, CO – February 26-28 DISTRIBUTECH – Orlando, FL – February 26-29 GridTECH Connect – Orlando, FL – February 26 March RE+ Northern California – Santa Clara, CA – March 12-13 North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) Continuing Education Conference – Raleigh, NC – March 18-21* * Sean White will be teaching a live NABCEP PV Associate prep course. Learn more and enroll here, if you’re interested. Wes Kennedy will be teaching a session on Essentials of Solar Plus Storage. Energy Storage USA – Austin, TX – March 19-20 April Solarplaza Summit: Asset Management – San Diego, CA – April 9-10 Solar + Storage Mexico – Jalisco, MX – April 17-19 RE+ Southeast – Atlanta, GA – April 17-18 Florida Solar and Storage Summit – Orlando, FL – April 29- May 1 May CLEANPOWER – Minneapolis, MN – May 6-9 RE+ Texas – Houston, TX – May 14-15 American Solar Energy Society (ASES) 2024 Conference: Connecting Technology & Policy – Washington DC – May 20-23 June Wood Mackenzie Solar & Energy Storage Summit 2024 – San Francisco, CA – June 12-13 July Solar Farm Summit – Chicago, IL – July 8-10 RE+ Mid-Atlantic – Philadelphia, PA – July 18-19 August The Energy Expo – Miami, FL – August 20-22 September RE+ – Anaheim, CA – September 9-12 NYC Climate Week – New York City, NY – September 22-28 (not specifically a solar + storage conference) October Electricity Transformation Canada – Calgary, Alberta – October 21-23 November RE+ Midwest – Chicago, IL – November 7-8 December No conferences noted Conferences and Events Operations & Maintenance Solar Solar Business Growth Solar miscellaneous Solar Plus Storage Solar Product Training Utility-Scale Solar Originally posted on January 5, 2024 Written by Brit Heller Director of Program Management @ HeatSpring. Brit holds two NABCEP certifications - Photovoltaic Installation Professional (PVIP) and Photovoltaic Technical Sales (PVTS). When she isn’t immersed in training, Brit is a budding regenerative farmer just outside of Atlanta where she is developing a 17-acre farm rooted in permaculture principles. She can be found building soil health, cultivating edible & medicinal plants, caring for her animals or building functional art. More posts by Brit