NY Climate Tech: Feb 1 - Feb 8
Today's Meetup, Emerging Markets, FERC 2222, and Jobs Jobs Jobs
Hello,
I’m looking forward to seeing all of you tonight! We have 32 RSVPs already — promises to be a good group. Once again: we’ll be outside, but if you’re coming, please stop by a rapid test van or do an at home test to keep this event safe.
If you can’t make tonight or are eager for more in-person events, James McWalter is hosting another meetup on Friday at Blue and Gold Tavern. It’s a more casual vibe, and features a lot of OnDeck alums.
Online, there are two events this Wednesday. Columbia is hosting a morning discussion with an incredible group of women leaders on ESG in emerging markets, and the DER Taskforce is running their winter meetup with Dana Guernsey to get into the weeds on FERC 2222 and more.
Finally, I’ve cherry-picked a few great jobs that are open: Senior Climate writer at TechCrunch, Product Lead for Climate at Stripe (dream job right here), and Senior Climate Data Specialist at Bloomberg. And as always, everyone’s hiring engineers.
If you want any events, jobs, or other listings posted here, just let me know.
In This Newsletter
Events
🍻 First Friday Meetup
🌍 ESG in Emerging Markets: A Discussion with Leading Women from the Energy Sector
⚡️ DER Taskforce: Demand Flexibility and FERC 2222 with Dana Guernsey, CPO of Voltus
Jobs
Senior Writer, Climate @ TechCrunch
Product Lead, Climate @ Stripe
Senior Climate Data Specialist @ Bloomberg
In-Person Events
🗽 NY Climate Tech Winter Meetup
When: Tuesday, Feb 1st at 6:30 PM EST
Where: Aria Wine Bar, 16 Bedford St (West Village)
RSVP: Free here
It's been a couple months! We'll be meeting at Aria Wine Bar in the West Village.
We always get a good mix of people, and newcomers are very welcome!
This meetup will be outside. Aria has heat lamps, but bundle up and plan to be outdoors.
We all know Omicron is still going strong, so please only attend if vaccinated and feeling well! If possible, take a rapid test before you head over — it's the courteous thing to do.
🍻 First Friday Meetup
When: Friday, Feb 4th at 7:00 PM EST
Where: Blue and Gold Tavern, 79 E. 7th St
RSVP: Free here
This Friday we have the monthly First Friday Meetup in the East Village NYC for tech people working on cool things (especially climate)! After some great feedback, we have broadened the meetup to also include tech/climate focused artists. Should be a great group! See you there! https://lu.ma/qh35ohy3
Online Events
🌍 ESG in Emerging Markets: A Discussion with Leading Women from the Energy Sector
When: Wednesday, Feb 2nd at 8:30 AM EST
RSVP: Free here
Environmental Stewardship, Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance (ESG) have become the new standard of best corporate practices globally. The Center on Global Energy Policy’s Women in Energy program will host a panel of board directors and C-suite executives from different emerging market companies to examine the dual challenges of ESG compliance and energy transition readiness. The panel will discuss how ESG issues compare to the myriad risks that are inherent to operating in emerging markets, the challenges EM companies are facing navigating the energy transition vs. ensuring energy access, profitability and reliability, and the role women corporate leaders play in managing and addressing these challenges.
⚡️ DER Taskforce: Demand Flexibility and FERC 2222 with Dana Guernsey, CPO of Voltus
When: Wednesday, Feb 2nd at 5:00 PM EST
RSVP: Free here
For February's meetup, we'll be joined by Dana Guernsey, the Chief Product Officer of Voltus, a demand-response and grid-services integrator that is going public in a SPAC deal that values the company at about $1.3 billion.
As for the topic, it only seemed appropriate to discuss FERC 2222 on 2/2/22. For those who don't know, FERC 2222 is an order issued by the federal electricity regulator that compelled electricity system operators to incorporate aggregated demand-side resources into competitive markets. When the order was released, no one knew exactly how the system operators would respond, as there are many potential ways to comply with it. Today, over a year later, it is still a rather open question.
We also plan to discuss demand flexibility broadly, its role in the energy transition, Voltus' approach, and much more.
⛲️ Landscape Architecture and the Science of Climate Change
When: Friday, Feb 4th at 3:00 PM EST (12 PST)
RSVP: Free here
The Department of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona hosts a series of monthly presentations on the science of climate change and landscape architecture solutions.
The February event will focus on rising sea levels and architecture.
Jobs
Senior Writer, Climate @ TechCrunch
TechCrunch is looking for a Senior Climate Writer who can work with a team of editors and writers to cover the technology (past and present) crafted to slow climate change and its impact on the planet.
This reporter would focus on coverage of climate tech in the startup ecosystem. This would include coverage of investment firms, investors, entrepreneurs, and startups working to affect all technological aspects of environmental change, including but not limited to energy, logistics, and agriculture.
Product Lead, Climate @ Stripe
Our mission is to make it easy and compelling for businesses to help stop climate change. Last year we launched Stripe Climate, which allows merchants to direct a fraction of their revenue toward initiatives that permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere — all in just a few clicks. This product marked the first of a suite of climate products to serve our 1M+ merchants. We’re optimistic that, together with our users, we can build a reliable market for carbon removal. If successful, this growing market will accelerate the availability of low-cost, permanent carbon removal technologies—and increase the likelihood that the world has the portfolio of solutions needed to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
You’ll be responsible for driving the vision, strategy, roadmap and execution for our climate products. The stage of our team is early and the degrees of freedom are many. This role requires a unique combination of high-level strategic thinking, user obsession, and focused execution.
Senior Climate Data Specialist @ Bloomberg
As a team, we are responsible for improving and reporting climate related content for Bloomberg, as well as for work across ESG and key climate initiatives including the GFANZ initiative. GFANZ is a coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the global economy. members currently include over 450 financial firms responsible for assets in excess of $130 trillion across 45 countries. We"re focused on broadening, deepening and raising net-zero ambitions across the financial system and demonstrating firms" collective commitments to supporting companies and countries to achieve the goals set at COP26.
As part of the GFANZ team you will have an enormous impact on supporting the global financial sector"s work to stop climate change and ensuring that financing and capital allocation decisions occur in ways that enable the world to reach net zero by 2050 in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.