Environmental Awareness 2025

Solar Energy 2035: Technology and Economics

Tue Feb 11, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Holly & Buck Elliott generously underwrite the Environmental Awareness series.

Looking ahead to the possibility of solar energy becoming a more significant energy source by the year 2035, what technological and economic factors would both contribute to and limit the development of solar energy? What incentivizes the further development of solar grids? Who maintains the grid? How does solar energy get stored and distributed?

Join our panel of experts as they take us through a deep look at the costs of electricity and solar grids, the technology as it exists today and what is on the horizon (including a discussion of power storage, battery technologies and power grids) and what implementation looks like in various communities. Our panel will bring vast expertise in meteorology, solar development, research and how solar energy can weather changing government political climates.

Recommended reading available at The Bookworm in Edwards:
Our Renewable Energy Future: The Remarkable Story of How Renewable Energy Will Become the Basis for Our Lives” by Douglas Arent

Event SPEAKER(S)

Dr. Doug Arent

Dr. Doug Arent

Executive Director

NREL Foundation

Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson

Chief Meteorologist (retired)

Channel 7 News