The United States Energy Association (USEA), in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), DOE’s Arctic Energy Office, and the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association, cordially invites you to a workshop on Regional Decarbonization to be held in Anchorage, AK (tentatively at the Sheraton Anchorage). The duration of the workshop will be 2 days, with Day 1 on May 7, from 8:45 am – 5:45 pm and Day 2 on May 8, from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm.

This is the first of several “regional” workshops, with future workshops to be held in the South Central United States (including the Gulf Coast), American Heartlands, and Appalachia. These regional workshops are focused on areas of the United States with a strong history and reliance on fossil energy and where FECM and broader DOE program areas are likely to be critical in building a clean energy and industrial economy. The Regional Decarbonization Workshops will be held in conjunction with a series of regional initiatives that DOE is preparing in an attempt to take a holistic cross-cutting approach to communicate our portfolio and work in an accessible way that addresses the opportunities and challenges of each region, anchoring on the mix of energy, electricity, industry, existing infrastructure, existing subsurface, resource opportunities, and stakeholders that are unique to each region.

The target audience includes fossil fuel users from industry, power and the oil and gas sector, Railbelt regional electric cooperatives as well as: academia, state and local officials, and Environmental Justice communities. DOE would like to introduce these groups to work that is already being funded by the department in Alaska including: CarbonSAFE, DAC Hubs and the Railbelt Innovative Resiliency (RIR) Project. An overview of the currently funded work is intended to give attendees an understanding of technologies that their company/industry could use to facilitate a lower carbon future. A DOE panel will then highlight current funding mechanisms, thereby introducing the participants to DOE funding opportunities to assist in achieving lower-carbon and decarbonized energy goals and to facilitate a lower carbon future, enhance grid flexibility, improve the resilience of the power system against growing threats of extreme weather and climate change, and to ensure communities have access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity when and where they need it.

The workshop will also offer individual sector panels where the industrial, power and oil and gas participants can speak to DOE openly about their near-term and longer-term decarbonization goals. This will allow DOE to understand the priority areas of each of these sectors and also facilitate possible interactions between these groups, FECM, and the broader DOE. An equally critical aspect will be interaction with native communities and a clear understanding of regional Environmental Justice concerns. To book your hotel room at the workshop venue, please click here.

*By registering for this workshop you agree to inclusion on the workshop contact list to be shared with all workshop registrants as well as inclusion on USEA's Consensus Program mailing list. If you would like to be excluded from either, please contact [email protected].