Energy Conferences & Events in Massachusetts — 2026

Highlighted events

• OCT

  29

  THU

  Boston Climatetech Summit 2026

  Notable

  Greentown Labs · Somerville (Boston), MA

  Power & Utilities · Renewables

  Greentown Boston's summit focuses on financing, permitting, and installing proven climatetech at scale, bringing together startups, buyers, investors, and utilities building the deployment economy. The agenda includes a keynote on how leading technology buyers approach climatetech deployment; a market briefing on climatetech commercialization activity, technology adoption, capital flows, and projected inflection points; Greentown Labs startup pitches; and "Cracking the Corporate Buying Process," covering how corporate, government, municipal, and utility buyers evaluate vendors, including procurement hurdles and deal-breakers. "Scale or Fail: Lessons From Climatetech Deployments" presents a corporate-startup case study on the factors that determine whether projects scale. A startup showcase will feature companies working across electricity, agriculture, buildings, manufacturing, transportation, resiliency, and adaptation. The summit also includes the GE Vernova Startup Challenge for technologies covering power generation, power conversion, grid and edge analytics, transmission and distribution automation, and waste-to-power applications. Named speakers include Georgina Campbell Flatter, CEO, Greentown Labs; Kim Zou, CEO & Co-founder, Currence; and Julia Travaglini, Head of Greentown Boston.

  Julia Travaglini

  Kim Zou

  Georgina Campbell Flatter

• NOV

  2

  MON

  –

  NOV

  4

  WED

  DTECH® Northeast 2026

  Top

  DistribuTECH International (DTECH) — Clarion Events · Boston, MA

  Batteries & Energy Storage · Power & Utilities

  The agenda covers interconnection, reliability and resiliency, artificial intelligence, distributed energy resources, data analytics, grid modernization, strategy and workforce, customer engagement, affordability, asset management, storms and wildfires, and policy and regulation. Named sessions include “Keynote: Understanding the Future of Energy Across the Northeast and Beyond,” featuring FERC Commissioner Judy W. Chang; “Keynote: Enabling Regional Collaboration: A Three-State Understanding”; “Opening Panel: What Keeps Northeast Utility Executives Up at 3AM?”; “Opening Panel: Cultivating Public Trust as an Essential Affordability Strategy”; “Practical Insights on Reinventing the Interconnection Process”; “Building Confidence in GETs: From Testing to Real-World Implementation”; “Power Transmission System – Bottleneck or Super Highway?”; “From Pilot to Production: How AI Is Actually Transforming the Grid”; “Scaling AI: From Prototype to Organizational Program”; “From Planning to Execution: DER Visibility and full-scale orchestration”; “Lessons From the World's Largest DLR Application Covering 30,000 Transmission Line Spans”; “The Wildfire Resilience Tech Stack: A Lifecycle Approach to Grid Risk Reduction”; and “Innovative Solutions to Tackle the Northeast’s Peak Demand.” The program also includes utility-only roundtable discussions on grid modernization, electrification investment, resilience, affordability, policy, and regulatory hurdles, plus sessions on demand response, battery storage, EV load management, AI-powered operations, AMI data, cybersecurity, climate-risk planning, and electric fleets.

  Morgan Steacy

  Jeremy McDiarmid

  Greg Cornett

  Douglas Foley

  Holly Eagleston, PhD

• NOV

  12

  THU

  NEPOOL Participants Committee Meeting

  Notable

  ISO New England (ISO-NE) · Boston, MA · Hybrid

  Power & Utilities

  Principal governing body through which NEPOOL members act as an organization. The committee considers proposals to change the ISO Tariff; recommendations for Installed Capacity Requirements; changes to Operating Procedures, ISO Manuals, NEPOOL GIS Rules, and other system rules and procedures; endorsement of proposed nominees for the ISO Board of Directors; and the annual ISO operating and capital budgets. Meetings are not public, but are open to NEPOOL Participants and authorized representatives, consumer advocates, federal and state officials, and guests cleared with the Committee Chair. Official records and minutes are posted publicly.