Cleantech San Diego

California’s growing demand for power, flexibility, and speed-to-power is placing pressure on energy systems. The event covers effects on transmission and distribution infrastructure, and strategies and policies to address transmission hurdles, interconnection bottlenecks, and reliability challenges. Panel topics include energy demand from data centers, EV infrastructure, and electrification; grid access and infrastructure needs in the San Diego region; battery energy storage as critical infrastructure and how to meet storage demand; and political challenges and state and local efforts related to clean-energy leadership.

The forum brings together cleantech innovators, investors, corporates, and other ecosystem participants to address grid stability, water scarcity, waste-to-value, critical minerals, and geopolitical pressures on supply chains and energy security. The program includes a closed-door, peer-level executive roundtable and an opening plenary covering cleantech trends, capital flows, innovation, and the 2027 Global Cleantech 100. Agenda topics include nuclear fuel supply and nuclear supply chains; mineral processing, refining, recovery, and the post-mining supply chain; physical AI applications in grid construction, critical minerals, and dual-use; data-center power demand, grid capacity, water use, cooling, and wastewater resource recovery. Other sessions address heat resilience, energy efficiency for AI compute, geopolitical risk across energy and cleantech supply chains, and investor perspectives on cleantech funding. Innovation Showcases feature cleantech companies presenting technologies and business models.