StateImpact Pennsylvania will host a public forum on The Future Of Energy: Can We Get To Zero Carbon? on January 29 at the Energy Innovation Center, 1435 Bedford Avenue in Pittsburgh from 6:15 to 8:30.

Several recent reports, including from the United Nations and the U.S. government, stress the urgency of reducing carbon emissions to check the worst effects of climate change.

StateImpact Pennsylvania is bringing together a distinguished panel to discuss this huge challenge and potential solutions.

Panelists will include--

-- Paulina Jaramillo, associate professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University and co-director of the Green Design Institute;

-- Ivonne Peña, an energy analyst who has worked for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the U.S. and the Colombia’s Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission; and

-- Greg Reed, a professor of electric power engineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, and director of Pitt’s Center for Energy and the Energy GRID Institute. 

The event features a tour of the Energy Innovation Center before presentations begin.

Click Here to RSVP and for more information.

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[Posted: Jan. 4, 2019]

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