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E2Tech's GRIDsilience series brings together regulators, electric utilities, generators and storage developers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of building the grid of the future with an affordable and resilient energy supply. May's GRIDsilience event featured three panels, this is the third panel focused on energy storage opportunities and the developer's perspective with Cianbro's Parker Hadlock, NextEra Energy's Michelle Gardner, Maine Department of Energy Resources' Ethan Tremblay, and Drummond Woodsum's Adam Cote. For slides and video of the first two panels focused on grid transformation and system planning go to www.e2tech.org/post/gridsilience-system-planning Special thanks to event sponsors ⁠The Roux Institute⁠⁠⁠ at Northeastern University, ⁠Central Maine Power⁠, ⁠Cianbro⁠, and ⁠Drummond Woodsum⁠. E2Tech programs are supported by our members and sustaining partners like the Maine Technology Institute which offers grants, loans, equity investments, and services to foster Maine’s innovation economy. Find out more about MTI at www.MaineTechnology.org and about upcoming programs at www.E2Tech.org - your Maine source for innovation information.

E2Tech's new GRIDsilience series brings together regulators, electric utilities, generators and storage developers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of building the grid of the future with an affordable and resilient energy supply. May's GRIDsilience event featured three panels, this is the second panel focused on grid transformation with Versant Power's David Norman and Central Maine Power's Craig Nale. For slides and video and the first panel focused on system planning with ISO New England's Melissa Winne, Maine Public Utilities Commission's Phil Bartlett, and Maine Department of Energy Resources' Ethan Tremblay go to www.e2tech.org/post/gridsilience-system-planning Special thanks to event sponsors ⁠The Roux Institute⁠⁠⁠ at Northeastern University, ⁠Central Maine Power⁠, ⁠Cianbro⁠, and ⁠Drummond Woodsum⁠. E2Tech programs are supported by our members and sustaining partners like the Maine Technology Institute which offers grants, loans, equity investments, and services to foster Maine’s innovation economy. Find out more about MTI at www.MaineTechnology.org and about upcoming programs at www.E2Tech.org - your Maine source for innovation information.

E2Tech's new Gridsilience series bringing together regulators, electric utilities, generators and storage developers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of building the grid of the future with an affordable and resilient energy supply. May's Gridsilience event featured three panels, this is the first focused on system planning with ISO New England's Melissa Winne, Maine Public Utilities Commission's Phil Bartlett, and Maine Department of Energy Resources' Ethan Tremblay. Special thanks to event sponsors The Roux Institute⁠⁠ at Northeastern University, Central Maine Power, Cianbro, and Drummond Woodsum. E2Tech programs are supported by our members and sustaining partners like the Maine Technology Institute which offers grants, loans, equity investments, and services to foster Maine’s innovation economy. Find out more about MTI at www.MaineTechnology.org and about upcoming programs at www.E2Tech.org - your Maine source for innovation information.

Find out what happened in the 132nd Maine Legislature and how Augusta is shaping Maine’s energy and environmental landscapes with Melanie Loyzim of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Jack Shapiro of Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), Sylvia Most of the Office of the Public Advocate, Eliza Donoghue of the Maine Renewable Energy Association (MREA), and Tony Buxton of the Industrial Energy Consumers’ Group (IECG). More at www.e2tech.org/blog

When E2Tech first talked about organizing a discussion about data centers, someone said to me, “Make sure you present both sides of the issue.” But then every person I talked to had a unique perspective that somehow was both aligned and in tension with other perspectives in unexpected ways. We have put together a diverse panel with expertise in energy, environmental, and policy issues that goes beyond “bothsidesism” because we don’t live in a binary world that can be reduced to just ones and zeroes, good and bad, left and right, us and them. The world is not black and white and the alternative is not a sea of gray. Allow me to say something obvious, the world is a vast rainbow of colors. And how beautiful it is. There are so many shades of color that we make up names like Zomp, Fulvous, Mindaro, Grullo, and Sinopia. (Yes, I learned these are colors by reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.) Beyond these fun names, there are wavelengths of light we cannot see with our own two eyes, but we know they are there. I have a lot of questions for our panelists about data centers, but for a productive conversation, maybe the most important questions are the ones we ask ourselves. Am I here just to confirm what I already believe? Am I here to really listen and learn, or am I here to listen just enough to poke holes in someone else’s argument, or to understand only enough to try to persuade them of what I already think? I’m not saying that people shouldn’t have agendas. Of course, we would like others to see things our way. E2Tech’s approach in organizing this event is not to tell you how to feel or what to think, but to provide an opportunity to see a wider spectrum, to grasp a broader perspective, to add a little color. - E2Tech’s Orion BreenWe hope you are open to joining the conversation on May 28th in South Portland at 5:30pm. Thanks to gold sponsor Flycatcher LLC and silver sponsors Tetra Tech, Sevee & Maher Engineers, and Pierce Atwood LLP. Find out more at: www.e2tech.org/our-events