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UC Riverside is scheduled to hold its fourth annual solar conference Thursday.
The one-day event – Past, Present and its Future in Inland Southern California – will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bourns Technology Center, 1200 Columbia Ave., according to a statement.
Karen Douglas, head of the California Energy Commission, will be the keynote speaker.
Panelists will discuss the latest technology, public policy regulations, economics, as well as the associated environmental benefits of solar energy.
Besides solar energy, this year’s conference will include energy storage and microgrid systems.
The latter is a cluster of connected loads and distributed energy resources that act as one entity. A microgrid can act independently or within the confines of the grid.
This conference is hosted by UC Riverside’s College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research & Technology, the UCR School of Public Policy’s Center for Sustainable Suburban Development and Southern California Research Initiative for Solar Energy.
For more information, including an agenda, visit www.ucrtoday.ucr.edu.
