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Agenda (all times are Central)

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM ACP Energy Storage Council Meeting

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Networking Coffee Break

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM General Session

Speakers:

• Heather Zichal – American Clean Power Association
• Secretary Jennifer Granholm – US Department of Energy
• Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM Bringing Green Hydrogen Within Reach

Moderator: Jacob Susman – Ambient Energy

Speakers:

• Janice Lin – Green Hydrogen Coalition
• Megan Reusser, PE – Burns & McDonnell
• Adolfo Rivera – Avangrid Renewables

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM The Clean Energy Market Today

Moderator: John Hensley – American Clean Power Association

Speakers:

• Douglas Giuffre – IHS Markit
• Tara Narayanan – BloombergNEF
• Aaron Barr – Wood Mackenzie

11:30 AM – 11:55 AM Scaling and Performance of Real-time Operations and Maintenance of Renewable Energy Plants

Speaker: AJ Singh – Hitachi Energy

2:30 PM – 2:55 PM Experiences Deploying Utility-Scale Storage Systems

Speaker: Mark Powell – Sungrow

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ACP Trade Committee Meeting

1:30 PM – 1:55 PM Long Duration Storage- Today’s Trends and Tomorrow’s Opportunities

Speaker: David O. Stripling – ORMAT

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Building the Clean Energy Workforce

Moderator: Adam Edelen – Edelen Ventures

Speakers:

• David Hickey – Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
• Tim Maag – Mortenson
• Jose Antonio Miranda Soto – Avangrid
• James Murphy – President and Corporate Business Leader, Invenergy
• Susan Nickey – Hannon Armstrong

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Financing the Clean Energy Transition

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM What Energy Storage Customers Want

Moderator: Catherine Sullivan – Fluence

Speakers:

• Brent Bergland – Mortenson
• Ricky T. Elder, III – Dominion Energy
• Andrew Foukal – East Point Energy
• Troy Miller – GE Renewable Energy

2:00 PM – 2:25 PM Digital Technology Landscape in Renewable Energy Asset Management

Speaker: Feng Zhang – Utopus Insights

2:45 PM – 3:45 PM Enabling Domestic Investments in the Solar Supply Chain

Moderator: Leo Moreno – AES Clean Energy

Speakers:

• Nigel Cockcroft – Jinko Solar US Inc.
• Tristan Grimbert – EDF Renewables
• Michael Wathen – Nextracker
• Becca Jones- Albertus

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Witness

• Shalanda Young, Director, United States Office of Management and Budget

The FY 2023 budget request for the White House Office of Management and Budget is $128 million, including $13 million for climate-related program activity.

Full Committee on Agriculture – Business Meeting to consider:

• The Budget Views and Estimates Letter of the Committee on Agriculture for the agencies and programs under the jurisdiction of the Committee for Fiscal Year 2023;
• H.R. 7764, A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide additional payments under the environmental quality incentives program for implementation of a nutrient management practice, and for other purposes. ;
• H.R. 2518, “Producing Responsible Energy and Conservation Incentives and Solutions for the Environment Act or the PRECISE Act”;
• H.R. 2606, “Sponsoring USDA Sustainability Targets in Agriculture to Incentivize Natural Solutions Act of 2021, or the ‘SUSTAINS’ Act”;
• H.R. 4140, “Butcher Block Act”;
• H.R. 7675, To amend the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to establish an Agricultural and Food System Supply Chain Resilience and Crisis Response Task Force, and for other purposes.;
• H.R. 7606, “Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act of 2022”;
• H.R. 7763, To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to support and incentivize domestic activities to address fertilizer shortages and deficiencies, diversity fertilizer sources, and reduce depending on foreign sources for fertilizer, and other purposes;
• H.R. 7765, “American Food Supply Chain Resiliency Act of 2022”

During this hearing, members will hear testimony on what U.S. airports and airport stakeholders are doing to meet the challenge of the climate crisis.

Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-Wash.)

Witnesses:

• Ann Ardizzone, Vice President, Supply Chain, Alaska Airlines
• Robert Horton, Vice President of Environmental Affairs, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
• Pete Bunce, President and CEO, General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA)
• Jennifer Bies, Director of Environmental Operations, Port of Portland
• John Plaza, President and CEO, SkyNRG Americas Val Miftakhov, Founder and CEO, ZeroAvia

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The FY 2023 budget request has $2.3 billion to support U.S. leadership in addressing the existential climate crisis through diplomacy; scaled-up international climate programs that accelerate the global energy transition to net zero by 2050; support to developing countries to enhance climate resilience; and the prioritization of climate adaptation and sustainability principles in Department and USAID domestic and overseas facilities. This total includes over $1.6 billion for direct programming for climate mitigation and adaptation and over $650 million for the mainstreaming of climate considerations across development programs.

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• H.R. 7569, the “Energy Cybersecurity University Leadership Act of 2022” (Rep. Deborah Ross, D-N.C.), to provide scholarships for energy cybersecurity university programs
• H.R. 7361, the “National Weather Service Communications Improvement Act” (Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Ill.), to privatize the NWSChat system
• H.R. 7289, the “Federal PFAS Research Evaluation Act” (Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, D-Texas), to report on public exposure to PFAS within the year and the toxicity of PFAS within two years.
• H.R. 7180, the “Brycen Gray and Ben Price COVID-19 Cognitive Research Act”, for research into potential cognitive impairment due to COVID-19

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Witness:

• Michael S. Regan, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Briefing Memorandum: The Biden Administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 funding request proposes $11.881 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in discretionary funding, a $2.3 billion increase from the Agency’s FY 2022 regular enacted appropriations. The President’s budget requests funding as follows for eight overarching goals for EPA.

• “Tackle the Climate Crisis with Urgency”—$100 million for grants for states and Tribes to reduce methane emissions and increase infrastructure resiliency; an additional $35 million over FY 2021 enacted levels to implement the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act to continue phasing out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); and $152.2 million for developing, implementing, and ensuring compliance with national vehicle emission standards
• “Restore Critical Capacity to Carry Out EPA’s Core Mission”—over 1,900 new Full Time Equivalents (FTE) to empower EPA to continue fulfilling its goals of reducing air, climate, and water pollution; advancing environmental justice; and protecting public health
• “Advance Environmental Justice”—$615.4 million across EPA to bolster environmental justice efforts, including a new Environmental Justice National Program Manager, and $100 million for air quality monitoring programs
• “Upgrade Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Nationwide”—$4.4 billion for water infrastructure
• “Protect Communities from Hazardous Waste and Environmental Damage”—includes $1.2 billion for the Superfund program and $215 million for Brownfields remediation projects, including for grants and technical assistance
• “Strengthen the Administration’s Commitment to Successfully Implement the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and Transform the Science of New Chemical Reviews”—provides $124 million and 449 FTE for EPA to carry out efforts under the TSCA program to protect Americans from hazardous chemicals, including completing chemical risk evaluations, issuing protecting regulations, and establishing a pipeline of prioritized chemicals for risk evaluation
• “Tackle Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Pollution”—includes $126 million for the study of PFAS on human health and the environment; restricting the use of PFAS to prevent air, land, and water contamination; and PFAS remediation
• “Enforce and Assure Compliance with the Nation’s Environmental Laws”—provides $213 million for civil enforcement efforts, with specific funding directed to increase prevention of illegal HFC importations, $7 million for a coal combustion residuals compliance program, $148 million for compliance monitoring focused on underserved and overburdened communities, and $69 million for criminal enforcement efforts

The purpose of the hearing is to examine ways to strengthen the energy and mineral partnership between the U.S. and Canada to address energy security and climate objectives.

Witnesses:

• Jason Kenney, Premier, Alberta, Canada
• Nathalie Camden, Sous-ministre associée aux Mines (Associate Deputy Minister of Mines), Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources naturelles (Ministry of Energy & Natural Resources) Québec, Canada
• Francis Bradley, President & Chief Executive Officer, Electricity Canada
• Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources