Integrating Clean Energy into Your Community Friday, March 20, 2015 8:00 am – 4:30 pm Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame 240 Main St, Goshen, NY 10924 The Orange County Municipal Planning Federation along with the Orange County Department of Planning is collaborating with NYSERDA’s NY-Sun PV Trainers Network to bring you a full day clean energy training event on Friday, March 20, 2015 in Goshen, NY. This full-day training will include workshops on Intro to Solar Policy, Adopting the New York State Unified Solar Permit, Zoning for Solar Energy and background on other forms of renewable energy, including wind and geothermal. Municipal representatives including planning and zoning board members, planners, code officers, elected officials, and solar energy professionals and other interested stakeholders from around the Hudson Valley are invited to attend. The preliminary agenda is summarized below: Time 8:00 – 8:30 am 8:30 – 8:40 am Integrating Clean Energy into Your Community Registration and Breakfast Welcome Remarks from OC Municipal Planning Federation & An Overview of the NY-Sun PV Trainers Network 8:40 – 10:10 am Intro to Solar Policy (Justin Strachan & Adam Schnell, Sustainable CUNY) 10:20 – 11:40 am Intro to Wind and Geothermal Technologies 11:50 am – 12:45 pm Adopting the NYS Unified Solar Permit (Adam Schnell, Sustainable CUNY) 12:45 – 1:45 pm Lunch 1:45 – 4:30 pm Zoning for Solar Energy (Jessica Bacher & John Nolon, Pace University Land Use Law Center) TO REGISTER via the Orange County Municipal Planning Federation and forgo processing fees: http://www.orangecountygov.com/filestorage/124/1362/4665/OCMPF_Brochure_Spring2015.pdf TO REGISTER via Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/integrating-clean-energy-into-yourcommunity-tickets-15800647161 For questions, please contact Kate Schmidt, [email protected].