Clean Energy Innovation Forum

The Aspen Winter Energy Forum brings together top experts from corporations, government, academia, and non-profits for frank conversations about key issues in clean energy and deep decarbonization. The invitation-only forum seeks to build relationships and broaden possibilities for a cleaner and more equitable energy future. Innovation in clean energy policy, technology, finance, and markets are major themes of the conversations, with a special focus on diving deeply into newly emerging and just over horizon technologies and policies of high consequence.

[The Forum is co-chaired by Roger Ballentine, President, Green Strategies, and Jim Connaughton, President & CEO, Nautilus Data Technologies.]

Forum Reports, Blogs & Other Publications

Energy

2020 Winter Energy Report

To stabilize global temperatures at a sustainable level, global greenhouse gas emissions need to reach net zero by 2050. This reality must guide how we sup ...

BY Energy and Environment Program

Publication

06.25.2020
Energy

2019 Winter Energy Report

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has intensified the focus on measures to achieve deep decarbonization. For the United St ...

BY Roger Ballentine & Jim Connaughton, Co-Chairs , & 1 more

Publication

07.18.2019
Energy

2018 Clean Energy Report

The 2018 Aspen Institute Clean Energy Innovation and Decarbonization Winter Roundtable, February 25-28, 2018, in Aspen, Colorado, brought together ~35 expe ...

BY Energy and Environment Program

Publication

08.01.2018
Energy

2017 Clean Energy Innovation Forum Report

The Clean Energy Innovation Forum is an annual convening that highlights new ideas on how to merge the collective desire for a clean energy future with cur ...

BY Energy and Environment Program

Publication

11.29.2017
Energy

Forty Years of Energy Policy

Forty years ago, in August 1977, more than three dozen distinguished policy makers and other experts gathered in Aspen, Colorado to discuss the state of en ...

BY Greg Gershuny

Blog Post

06.29.2016
Energy

Report from the 2016 Clean Energy Innovation Forum

Executive Summary The tripartite paradigm of technology, finance and policy remains the foundation for the clean energy sector. Driven by dramatic price ...

BY Energy and Environment Program

Publication

02.03.2017
Energy

The New Energy Innovation Economy

Topics discussed included the ongoing transformation of the energy user experience; distributed generation and disruption incumbent electricity business model; challenges in bridging the energy technology gap between development and adoption; and the impact of climate concerns on accelerating change.

BY Roger Ballentine & Andy Karsner, Co-Chairs

Publication

12.15.2015
Energy

Tectonic Shifts in the U.S. Electricity Sector

Focuses on the economic disruption occurring to existing business models in the electricity sector given the rise of consumers; distributed generation, and the impacts of energy efficiency.

BY Andy Karsner & Roger Ballentine, Co-Chairs

Publication

12.15.2014
Energy

Scaling Clean Energy

The fourth annual Clean Energy Forum, June 20-23, 2013, examined how to quickly and efficiently move toward a clean energy future.

BY Roger Ballentine & Andy Karsner, Co-Chairs, and Dave Grossman, Rapporteur

Publication

07.05.2013

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Forum Reports, Blogs & Other Publications

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