This event is by invitation only.
The Climate Center invites you to a Zoom discussion about how climate legislation opens markets and creates opportunities for businesses, featuring Walker Wright from Sunrun and Mary Solecki from AJW, Inc. The Climate Center is at the leading edge of advocating for clean energy policy rooted in ambitious climate protection with a commitment to robust economic growth across California. This forum will provide the unique opportunity to discuss business case studies, highlighting the vital relationship between climate legislation and a prosperous, clean energy economy. Given the anti-science and anti-climate agenda of the current presidential administration, it is more important than ever that California, now the fourth-largest economy in the world, create policies and markets that will keep us globally competitive and serve as a model for the country.
Speakers
Elliot Hinds is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm’s Century City office. Elliot focuses his practice on corporate and energy matters. While he is deeply engaged in energy transactions, he also works with clients in a variety of other capital-intensive industries, including manufacturing, health care, and technology.
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Walker Wright is the VP of Public Policy for Sunrun, the leading distributed solar, energy storage, and energy services company in the United States. Over the years, Walker has held numerous leadership positions in the clean energy space. Previously, Walker was VP of Policy for Green Charge, a leading energy storage software and development company, acquired by ENGIE (the world’s largest Independent Power Producer). At ENGIE Walker provided policy leadership to numerous subsidiaries, which included the top Public Sector energy services provider in California.
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Mary is a Partner at AJW, a public policy and business development firm for technology innovators. She has spent the last 15 years working with clean energy companies on transportation and climate issues across the Pacific Coast. She has successfully led major campaign efforts to establish carbon programs and refine regulatory measures through strategic business engagement. Her work bridges the gap between the public and private sectors, with a focus on energy, transportation, and water issues. Ms. Solecki’s work has resulted in successful legislative campaigns, business-friendly amendments to public policies, and more robust climate programs.
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Barry joined The Climate Center in 2005 and has held positions as Deputy Director and Financial Officer. He currently leads The Climate Center’s program and policy development and implementation teams. In 2018 Barry began working with a group of energy experts and advocates envisioning a more decentralized energy system that was clean, affordable, resilient, and equitable. He then championed the development of The Climate Center’s Community Energy Resilience project, which has culminated in the creation of a new $170 million Community Energy Resilience investment program by the California Energy Commission in August of 2022.
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