Vice President
The Great Plains Institute
Duluth, MN
Brian Ross, AICP, is a Vice President at the Great Plains Institute. He leads GPI’s renewable energy market transformation efforts in the Midwest and nationally. For over 30 years he has worked with local, regional, and state governments on climate and energy planning, renewable energy policy and land use and natural resource regulation. Brian currently leads efforts at the state and national level to integrate renewable energy and community co-benefits to meet host community land use priorities and train planners and activitsts on dual-land-use solar, including ecovoltaics and agrivoltaics. He recently published land use best practice guidance on battery energy storage systems (BESS), an emerging new clean energy land use, and helps guide the national "Energy Ready" portfolio of local government certification programs, SolSmart, ChargingSmart, and Distributed Wind Smart.
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Breaking Through the Pro-Solar/Anti-Solar Binary
Saturday, March 29, 2025
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM MT