Solar Citizens: Summer Soiree
Event description
Come recharge your batteries and celebrate the incredible clean energy breakthroughs of 2024.
With a critical energy-focused Federal Election looming, come learn how you can play a role in defending the threat of solar switch-off from nuclear in 2025.
We’ll shine a spotlight on home batteries as the “real-zero heroes”: the household superhero who harnesses cheap clean rooftop solar energy for nighttime use.
Hear from special industry experts Dr. Gabrielle Kuiper and Danny Kennedy as they share global insights on Consumer Energy Resources (CER) and what it means for Australia’s energy democratisation.
See you there!
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4 - 4:30pm | Mingle & Nibbles |
4:30 - 4:50pm | Recharge with clean energy speed dating & share your wins of 2024! Then, hear about the wins of 2024 & challenges for 2025
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4:50 - 5:20pm | The “Real Zero Heroes”: the role of CER in the transition to Real Zero
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5:20 - 5:30pm | What’s Next? Defending the Solar Switch-Off from Nuclear How you can get involved, donate, and meet Mr Battery!
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5:30 - 6:30pm | Mingle, Photos with Mr Battery & Nibbles |
Speaker Bios | |
 | As CEO of Solar Citizens and living in one of the most diverse areas of Sydney, Heidi Lee Douglas is constantly reminded of the challenges and opportunities of finding common ground to build bridges and create a better tomorrow. She is deeply values aligned with Solar Citizens' focus on helping to fix climate issues by unifying the community to embrace and demand the cost of living benefits that clean energy can provide. Heidi has more than twenty years of experience working in the intersection between politics, narrative, and social change. She specialises in empowering the voices of others to move the dial and using story medicine to help fix social issues. Heidi has a deep passion for community organising and advocacy and strives to enable others to fulfill their dreams. Heidi is also a local government councillor for Bayside (NSW). |
 | Dr. Gabrielle Kuiper is an energy, sustainability and climate change professional with over 20 years’ experience in the corporate world, government and non-government organisations and academia. Dr. Kuiper has held senior executive or senior advisory energy-related positions at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), the Energy Security Board, in the Office of the Australian Prime Minister, at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), and in the NSW Government. Dr. Kuiper currently works internationally and in Australia on policy and regulation to support distributed energy resources (DER) - rooftop solar, electric vehicles, smart appliances, etc. |
 | Danny Kennedy is a clean energy expert & advisor, connecting entrepreneurs everywhere to capital to build an abundant clean energy economy that benefits all. Previously he was the CEO of New Energy Nexus. He acts as Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund. This includes overseeing the CalSEED.fund of $25m for very early-stage companies driving innovation and building equity in the California economy and the $12m CalTestBed initiative with UCOP. He is an adviser to Young Greentech Entrepreneurs in China with the Asia Society. Kennedy also serves as President of CalCharge, a public-private partnership with DoE National Labs, universities in California, unions and companies, working to advance energy storage. Danny is also co-host of the award winning Climate of Change podcast, which won Best Green Podcast as part of the annual iHeartPodcast Awards held live at the SXSW Conference and Festivals in Austin in March 2024. |
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