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The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership Annual Meeting aims to catalyze the exchange of ideas and spark future collaborations by bringing together E-ffiliates corporate members and industry leaders, researchers, policy experts, Princeton University faculty, students, and postdocs for a full day of presentations on science, technology, and policy that are of critical importance to the energy and environmental sectors.

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Please contact Diana Dudash, Program Administrator for E-ffiliates and Events.

2024

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment hosted its thirteenth Annual Meeting on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, with Melanie Nakagawa of Microsoft giving the keynote address. 

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AI for Energy and Energy for AI

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment’s 2024 Annual Meeting wasg held on Tuesday, October 29 from 8:15 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. at Princeton University’s Maeder Hall Auditorium.

While the artificial intelligence boom is poised to transform how we understand and solve global challenges, its heavy reliance on energy and water has led to concerns about its own impact on the environment. This year’s Annual Meeting will explore how we can harness the power of Al to make rapid progress in global decarbonization efforts and navigate the risks that Al will create for achieving a clean and just energy future.

2023

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment hosted its twelfth Annual Meeting on Friday, October 27, 2023, with Amory B. Lovins giving the keynote address. Here’s a recap of the event.

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Next Decade Technologies for the Energy Transition

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment 2023 Annual Meeting was held on Friday, October 27, 2023 – 8:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m.  at Maeder Auditorium in Princeton University.

Ensuring a robust pathway to global decarbonization will require the rapid deployment of established clean energy technologies, as well as the swift research, development, and deployment of new and emerging technological solutions. This year’s Annual Meeting will convene experts from the academic, public, and private sectors to discuss the challenges and opportunities of three such technologies — fusion, hydrogen, and CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage) — that could play a critical role in securing a sustainable shared future.

The keynote was given by Amory B. Lovins, adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at
Stanford University and c
o-founder and chairman emeritus at RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute).

2022

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment hosted its eleventh Annual Meeting on Friday, October 14, 2022 at Princeton University. Read more about the event here.

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The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment 2022 Annual Meeting was held on Wednesday, October 14, 2022 – 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Maeder Auditorium in Princeton University.

The past year marked record heatwaves, flooding, and droughts around the world while surging inflation and supply chain disruptions threaten to derail energy transition efforts. The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers from business, national security, and academia sharing their experiences and offering insights on the changing geopolitics of the global energy transition.

The morning keynote was given by Amanda Lacaze, CEO and managing director of Lynas Rare Earths, and the afternoon keynote was a discussion with Jigar Shah, director of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy.

2021

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment hosted its tenth Annual Meeting on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at Princeton University. Read more about the event here.

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The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment 2021 Annual Meeting was held on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 – 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. virtually and in person at Maeder Auditorium in Princeton University.

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment 2021 Annual Meeting catalyzed dynamic discussions on the global transition to net-zero emissions. Speakers from the financial, energy services, oil and gas, and renewables sectors shared their experiences and offer insights on the opportunities and challenges of the energy transition.

The keynote segment, entitled “Ørsted’s Green Business Transformation and the Next Frontier for Climate Action” was given by Thomas Thune Andersen, chairman of Ørsted.

2020

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership hosted their ninth Annual Meeting on Friday, October 30, 2020 at a virtual seminar, with the honorable Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall giving the keynote address. Read more about the event here.

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The Andlinger Center’s ninth Annual Meeting brought together virtually industry, government, and academic experts to speak on the opportunities, threats, and challenges to decarbonizing the U.S. power sector and building a secure, environmentally sustainable, and resilient 21st century grid. National security expert and energy leader, the Honorable Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, former United States Deputy Secretary of Energy, was the keynote speaker. During her address, she expressed an urgent need for strong federal leadership on decarbonization in the form of a comprehensive plan that fully integrates clean energy, climate, economic and national security goals to achieve a sustainable energy transition.

The CEOs of Xcel Energy, PSEG and New York Power Authority discussed keeping power affordable, clean, and reliable, and opportunities to invest in and serve communities have that have historically been underserved.

Security experts from Princeton, MIT, the University of Illinois, and Siemens Corporate Technology, laid out the risks of cyber attacks to the grid as it continues to transform and potential steps for protecting physical and cyber assets.

The day closed with a virtual student research presentation and engagement session in breakout rooms in which undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers discussed their research with academic, government and industry representatives. 

2019

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership hosted their eighth Annual Meeting on Friday, November 8, 2019 at Princeton University. Read more about the event here.

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The 2019 Annual Meeting was a full-day event that convened corporate leaders, researchers, policy experts, faculty, and students from across the sphere of energy and the environment. The meeting explored ways to leverage technological advances, data science, and policy to accelerate resource recovery and carbon dioxide utilization with the goal of working towards economy-wide decarbonization.

Phil Sharp, a former U.S. representative and chair of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, in the morning keynote address advocated for a carbon tax, noting that policy is one of the most effective ways to signal to the market the need for emissions reductions and to successfully achieve them.

David Babson, a program director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, said that by the year 2100, mitigating climate change will require the annual removal of 20 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, more than the current emissions of the U.S. trucking, oil and gas industries. To do this, society needs to make carbon dioxide removal and utilization profitable.

2018

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership hosted their seventh Annual Meeting on Friday, November 9, 2018 at Princeton University, with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy giving the keynote address. Read more about the event here.

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy delivered the keynote address at the Nov 9 annual meeting at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. The governor declared that clean energy is central to New Jersey’s economic future and sketched his plan to bring a range of new technologies to the state.

Murphy cited the planned expansion of energy storage and community solar power, increased energy efficiency measures for the state’s utilities, and plans to approve enough wind energy to power 1.5 million homes and businesses by 2030.

The full-day meeting featured panel discussions on clean energy development and opportunities for industry-academic partnerships to help society transition to sustainable energy systems. Subjects included the development of wind energy, sustainable cements and low-carbon hydrogen production. 

2017

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership hosted their Annual Meeting on Friday, November 10, 2017 at Princeton University. Read more about the event here.

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Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund, gave the keynote address titled “Three Reasons for Hope in the Fight to Solve Climate Change.”

The Meeting’s morning session examined electrification of transportation. Lunch was followed by two faculty research presentations on co-benefits of air quality improvements for health, climate, and solar PV electricity generation and cool buildings with less cooling. The late afternoon session explored coastal resilience, and the day concluded with refreshments and a student poster competition.

The annual meeting aims to catalyze the exchange of ideas and spark future collaborations by bringing together corporate leaders, researchers, policy experts, faculty, students and postdocs.

2016

Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership hosted its Fifth Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11, 2016 at Princeton University. Read more on the event here.

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Ralph Izzo – chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer at Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) – gave the keynote address on New Jersey’s evolving energy needs and how utilities can meet them.

This event aims to catalyze the exchange of ideas and spark future collaborations by bringing together corporate leaders and researchers, policy experts, faculty, students, and postdocs for a day of talks, including panel discussions on the energy-water nexus and the role of behavioral science in environmental policy, faculty research presentations, and a student poster session.

2015

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership hosted their Annual Meeting on Friday, November 20, 2015 at Princeton University. Read more on the event here.

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Franklin (Lynn) Orr, Under Secretary for Science and Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, presented the keynote address on the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2015 Quadrennial Technology Review.

Faculty and student research was highlighted, and two panel discussions focused on energy markets and the future of photovoltaics.

2014

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership hosted their Annual Meeting on Friday November 14, 2014 at Princeton University.

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Stewart C. Prager, director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, and professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, gave a keynote address on the status of fusion energy technologies inside and outside the U.S.

In addition to faculty talks and student posters, there were two panel discussions focusing on large-scale grid storage and financial investments in sustainability technologies. Professor Michael Oppenheimer closed the conference with a highlight of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings.

2013

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership hosted their Annual Meeting on Friday, November 15, 2013 at Princeton University.

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Cheryl A. LaFleur ’75, Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, gave the keynote address titled “he Changing U.S. Electric System: Challenges and Opportunities.”

E-ffiliates members, industry representatives, and members of the Princeton University community had opportunities to interact in an arena that presented technical, business, and social components with the goal of building partnerships to accelerate innovation.

2012

The First Annual Meeting of Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership was held on Monday, November 12, 2012 at Princeton University.

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Michel Di Capua – Head of US Analysis, Bloomberg New Energy Finance – gave the keynote address titled “What’s Next for US Energy?”

E-ffiliates members, industry representatives, and members of the Princeton University community had opportunities to interact in an arena that presented technical, business, and social components with the goal of building partnerships to accelerate innovation.