Critical Minerals Conferences & Events in California

Highlighted events

• JAN

  25

  MON

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  JAN

  27

  WED

  2027 Cleantech Forum North America

  Notable

  Cleantech Forum North America (Cleantech Group) · San Diego, CA

  Mining & Metals · Nuclear · Power & Utilities

  Cleantech Group describes this as a retreat-style forum for innovators, investors, corporations, and other cleantech ecosystem leaders. Themes include energy security and grid stability, geothermal baseload, AI-driven data-center power and water demand, critical-minerals and waste-to-value supply chains, climate adaptation, flood risk, water scarcity, and parametric insurance. Agenda topics include “The State of Cleantech & the 2027 Global Cleantech 100”; “Compute Sets the Pace: Can Quantum Break the Limits?”; “The Heat is On: Building Resilience Across North America’s Most Exposed Assets”; “Who’s Powering AI? The Emerging Ecosystem Reshaping Data Center Energy”; “Physical AI”; “Explore, Extract, Exit? Examining What Happens to Minerals After the Mine”; “Thirsty Machines: Data Centers and the Water Reckoning”; “How Geopolitics Rewired Energy and Cleantech”; “Fuel for Thought: The Nuclear Supply Chain Race”; “Can the Grid Keep Up?”; “One Man’s Trash is Another’s Mine”; and “Rethinking the Drain: Wastewater’s Quiet Opportunity.” The program also includes executive roundtables, interactive discussions, innovation showcases featuring Global Cleantech 100 companies and startups, investor pitches, analyst-led expert stations, and a town hall on the future of cleantech. Closed-door sessions provide opportunities for candid discussions with policymakers and investors. Media registration is by invitation only. The speakers page currently lists no named speakers and directs visitors to check back for the agenda.

• FEB

  9

  TUE

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  FEB

  10

  WED

  BNEF Summit San Francisco 2027

  Notable

  BloombergNEF (BNEF) · San Francisco (San Francisco Bay Area), CA

  Batteries & Energy Storage · Nuclear · Power & Utilities

  Explores how the US can power its next wave of economic and technological growth as AI, data centers, advanced manufacturing and electrification drive electricity demand higher. The agenda follows the investment and infrastructure challenge across the value chain: where new power will come from, how it will be financed, whether grids and equipment supply chains can keep pace, and which technologies—from storage and advanced nuclear to geothermal—can scale fast enough to meet demand. The program also examines how advances in AI, chips and compute could reshape future energy needs, with California-focused issues including power affordability, extreme weather, grid resilience and transport electrification. It asks whether America can translate its strengths in technology, innovation and capital into deployment at the speed and scale needed for a reliable, affordable and globally competitive power system.

• SEP

  8

  WED

  –

  SEP

  9

  THU

  Energy Storage Finance & Investment 2027

  Notable

  Infocast · San Diego, CA

  Batteries & Energy Storage · Power & Utilities

  The conference focuses on financing and developing energy storage projects and portfolios amid changing tax incentives, FEOC and Material Assistance requirements, lithium pricing, interest rates, supply-chain adjustments, and rising storage deployment. Topics include contract negotiations, revenue streams, costs, tax equity and credit markets, FEOC and Material Assistance, augmentation, M&A, merchant transactions, procurement plans, supply-chain risk, domestic equipment availability, ISO, RTO and bilateral markets, project and portfolio value extraction, and political and market risk. The audience includes storage developers, tax equity investors, capital and debt providers, tax advisors, market analysts, and offtakers.