Climate Week NYC 2026
September 20-27, 2026 • New York City, New York • More Info
EDF staff will be representing the Office at the Climate Week NYC 2026 in New York City. This year's Climate Week NYC will focus on the energy, the impact, and the action that we drive together. Energy systems are being redesigned, supply chains are under pressure, and demand for electricity is rising, driven by electrification, AI and digital infrastructure. At the same time, the transition is unlocking new sources of growth, investment and long-term competitiveness.
Specifically, EDF staff will be speaking at multiple events at Climate Week NYC 2026:
- EDF Senior Advisor Jeff McClure will be speaking at the Carbon Innovation Forum on a panel entitled "Mobilizing American Capital: From Venture Bets to Public Markets" at 3:55 pm on Monday, September 21. The panel will explore how public markets are starting to bet big on next-generation energy technologies. Recent public offerings are early signals that capital markets see next-generation nuclear and geothermal not as speculative bets, but as investable, scalable answers to surging electricity demand. This panel will examine what's driving that shift: how investor priorities are evolving amid surging electricity demand, what it takes for an emerging energy technology to go from private financing to public markets and how public-private partnerships and federal financing can help the next wave of companies make that same leap.
- EDF Acting Chief Investment Officer Julie Kozeracki will be participating in a panel discussion on "Powering America's Future: Innovation, Investment & Meeting Rising Energy Demand" at 3:30 pm on Tuesday, September 22. The panel will focus on where capital is flowing today, which projects are finance-ready, and the market shaping investment decisions. Speakers will explore the policy, financing and market forces shaping investment across renewable energy and other decarbonization technologies.
- EDF Acting Chief Investment Officer Julie Kozeracki will also be speaking at the Nuclear Symposium at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, September 23. The symposium will focus discussions around workforce development, new infrastructure and nuclear in a time of growing energy demand and need for affordability.
- EDF Chief Investment Officer Hernan Cortes will be speaking at the Grids in Transition event on a panel entitled "The New Operating Reality for US Grids" at 9:50 am on Thursday, September 24. The panel will discuss the electrification of transport, buildings, and industry driving new load profiles and peak demand; explosive growth in data center and AI infrastructure creating concentrated demand; renewable integration, distributed energy resources, and bidirectional power flows; Interconnection backlogs, generator queues, and the pace of new capacity delivery; Federal policy levers for grid acceleration; and building coordination across FERC, RTOs/ISOs, state regulators, utilities, and industry.
- EDF Senior Consultant Elizabeth Wolfe will be speaking at the Grids in Transition event on a panel entitled "Speed to Power: Optimizing the Existing Grid Through Advanced Technologies, Digitalization and Flexibility" at 1:50 pm on Thursday, September 24. The panel will discuss advanced conductors and dynamic line ratings to increase capacity on existing rights-of-way; grid topology optimization, power flow control devices, and network reconfiguration; AI, digital twins, and real-time situational awareness for system operations; demand response, virtual power plants, and distributed flexibility as grid assets; grid-scale storage as a transmission and distribution system resource; and regulatory and market incentives for non-wires alternatives and grid-enhancing technologies (GETs).