engage / princeton e-ffiliates partnership
“We need to get down to the grassroots, the real grassroots, and talk about ‘do I have a stake in this nation?’” —Art Cullen
2021 E-ffiliates Retreat: Making the Rapid Switch to Net-zero Carbon Emissions To successfully slash greenhouse gas emissions, the United States must ensure rural communities benefit from producing solar, wind, biofuels, and other low-carbon fuels, experts said at the annual Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership Retreat on June 3, 2021. The E-ffiliates Retreat focused on execution challenges, stakeholder perspectives, and energy modeling techniques as they relate to a clean energy transition. It explored findings from a Princeton study, Net-Zero America (NZA), released in December 2020, which mapped out five technological pathways for the United States to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions
by 2050. The study found that utility-scale carbon capture technology, high-voltage transmission lines, swaths of solar and wind farms, and biofuel plants all must be deployed rapidly, and that the Midwest is an ideal location for much of that infrastructure. On a panel about stakeholder perspectives, Art Cullen, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter and editor of The Storm Lake Times in northwest Iowa, said that this transition could become a form of restorative justice for the country, and one that is both affordable and necessary to help farmers who were economically squeezed by the industrialization of corn and hog farming by large conglomerates.
Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership Selected Timeline
Over the last 10 years, the Andlinger Center has built a corporate membership program, Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership (E-ffiliates), that enables researchers to connect with companies to foster transformational changes in energy and the environment. Here are highlights from the program’s first decade.
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
The Princeton Energy and
The Princeton Energy and
E-ffiliates welcomes Princeton
ExxonMobil joins as a
Associate director for external
Environment Corporate
Environment Corporate
Power Systems, a designer
charter member of E-ffiliates,
partnerships, Lynn Loo, is
Affiliates Program launches in
Affiliates Program formally
and manufacturer of energy
supporting projects on organic
appointed director of the
the 2011-2012 academic year,
becomes Princeton E-ffiliates
storage, microgrid, and electric
photovoltaics, battery storage,
Andlinger Center, effective July
with the announcement of
Partnership (E-ffiliates) in
vehicle charging systems, as a
plasma physics, and other
2016, and brings her passion
PSEG as its first member.
spring 2013.
new member.
energy topics.
and commitment to expanding
Southern Company, DuPont,
FERC commissioner Cheryl
Power Survey Company, now
and Lockheed Martin become
LaFleur speaks at the second
Osmose, a utility services
E-ffiliates members.
Annual Meeting.
company, joins E-ffiliates.
The corporate affiliates
Archewild, a full service
program’s inaugural Annual
ecological restoration company,
Meeting, “Synergize,” is held
joins E-ffiliates.
corporate collaborations to the role.
in November. Michel Di Capua, head of U.S. Analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, is the keynote speaker.
CHARTER MEMBERS
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*E-ffiliate members listed are as of July 2021.
GENERAL MEMBERS
