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Here is the latest Virginia Solar Land Use Newsletter, brought to you by Jared Burden and Alexis Laundry.

It’s exciting being on the organizing committee and seeing the speaker line up. I will be co-moderating the Efficiency First panel. Energy saving strategies in buildings can reduce energy demand by 35-50% so less energy of any kind is needed, and then a given amount of solar panels can power more buildings. National, state, and local organizations are training workers to make energy-efficient improvements and test them to provide verification. Many new jobs are being created in these easy to learn building sciences. Exchange ideas and learn more about it at SOLAR 2024

In Bartow, Fla., there’s a buzz around Hines Energy Complex. Not from the hum of machinery, but from a new kind of solar array. Instead of sprawling over fields, 1,872 solar panels float effortlessly on a 1,200-acre pond. Learn more about how this innovative approach harnesses the power of the sun while efficiently using space: http://spr.ly/6048uE0Tk.

TODAY: Our Power Expert, Alex Perez will be moderating a panel on 'Forecasting Demand in Southern Europe' at the the Large Solar Scale SE event in Athens, Greece. This panel will unpack questions such as where is inward investing changing domestic industry and their power needs? How can investors plan ahead to meet these needs? How is the power mix expected to evolve? If you are planning on attending this event, be sure to stop by and visit the panel session. Find out more about the event here: https://okt.to/E7rqNK

⚡ 🤓 🔌 ♨ Definitely worth coming along to ♨🔌 🤓 ⚡ The benefits of combining electrified heat and solar PV are intuitive and numerous. Come and see Andy model these benefits to show the facts and figures behind what everyone is talking about. InstallerSHOW Midsummer

TODAY: Our Power Expert, Alex Perez will be moderating a panel on 'Forecasting Demand in Southern Europe' at the the Large Solar Scale SE event in Athens, Greece. This panel will unpack questions such as where is inward investing changing domestic industry and their power needs? How can investors plan ahead to meet these needs? How is the power mix expected to evolve? If you are planning on attending this event, be sure to stop by and visit the panel session. Find out more about the event here: https://okt.to/q6DbYR

On June 3rd a retrofit forum will be hosted by Nisga’a Nation, on their Homeland, in partnership with Community Energy Association. Now, we coordinate dozens of training and capacity building events - in fact, over the past couple of years, we have had 700 participants engage in training which has spanned from mechanical system, house-as-a-system, envelope-first, and more. This Nisga’a event is unique. It is the manifestation of our intention to walk with, learn from, and co-create projects that support the priorities of Indigenous communities while building local capacity and fostering long-term resilience. I’m bursting with pride. 🍃Gaëtane, from our Relationships and Reconciliation team, has been spending impactful time in community over the past year and has already successfully secured funding to ensure Nisga’a staff have capacity to support a major retrofit project in development. 🍃Led by Capital Project manager Eric Nyce, we are proceeding with a 40 home deep energy retrofit pilot. 10 homes per Nisga’a community. Their ambition is to address 500 homes over the next few years. 🍃BC’s top trainers and energy retrofit experts are on board and the training is coming to community. They include: Nuxalk hereditary chief, and independent First Nations consultant, Richard Hall, thinkbright Homes owner and committed sustainability expert Meredith Hamstead, President of CHBA BC Mark Bernhardt, Rob Pope of Ecolighten Energy Solutions, James Bourget of RDH and high performance builder Shawn Wiebe. 🍃The case study of a multi-year retrofit initiative at Akisqnuk First Nation will be shared - a project that demonstrated the value of aggregated planning and implementation for deep energy retrofits (more to come on that!!) This project is built on trust and relationships. Not only between CEA and Nisga’a, but with the funders who recognize the value of two-way learning, community-led design and the importance of building local capacity for long-term impact. Thanks to Real Estate Foundation of BC, Canadian Home Builders' Association Northern BC, BC Hydro, FortisBC and the Province of BC.

Electricity supply capacity has become a major issue, particularly for areas of new development. Ideas to mitigate the issue that save on the need for expensive new infrastructure are worth considering

You can catch up with my recent Ynni Cymru energy seminar series at the links below.

With Energy Ministers agreeing to develop a National Consumer Energy Resources (CER) Roadmap - if we are to actually plan for the future LLM/AGI integration will need to be front and centre.