ACP Siting + Permitting Conference 2027
About the Event
The ACP Siting + Permitting Conference is an annual national forum organized by the American Clean Power Association (ACP), scheduled for April 13–15, 2027, at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference convenes project developers, regulatory officials, utility planners, environmental consultants, and corporate energy buyers to address project siting, land use, environmental compliance, and community engagement challenges across the renewable energy and power transmission sectors.
The sold-out 2025 edition gathered more than 1,350 attendees, 143 speakers across three educational tracks, 48 exhibitors, and 57 poster presentations. The 2027 gathering is co-located with ACP PEAK: Performance, Modeling & Assessment Conference, sharing general sessions, an exhibit hall, and networking events while maintaining dedicated conference programming.
Programming Focus
- Clean energy and data center partnerships: structuring dedicated power delivery and siting high-density loads
- Environmental permitting pathways, agency consultation, and federal policy updates
- Community engagement and social license: navigating local opposition, moratoria, and restrictive zoning
- Transmission siting, grid interconnection bottlenecks, and regional transmission organization (RTO) coordination
- Energy storage siting, fire safety compliance, and multi-jurisdictional approvals
- Land use dynamics, including agrivoltaics and dual-use solar on agricultural parcels
- State and regional policy trends, state-level siting boards, and local permitting models
- Emerging spatial planning tools, including artificial intelligence and geographic information systems (GIS) for public outreach
- End-of-life recycling, circularity, and repowering existing project footprints
Who Should Attend
- Clean energy developers, project managers, and environmental permitting directors
- Data center energy procurement directors, infrastructure strategists, and site selection leads
- Transmission developers, utility engineers, and grid interconnection coordinators
- Environmental attorneys, land use counsel, and regulatory affairs professionals
- Federal, state, and local permitting officials and agency representatives
- Community relations directors, public affairs strategists, and stakeholder engagement leads
- Environmental consultants, ecologists, and GIS spatial planning analysts
Logistics
The conference takes place at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, located at 601 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70113. General sessions, meal functions, the shared exhibit hall, and evening receptions are held jointly with the co-located ACP PEAK conference. Speaker and poster proposals for the 2027 program close on October 14, 2026.