When it comes to electrification, few topics receive more attention than electrical transmission infrastructure.

​Join us for a one-day, multi-disciplinary event where your unique skills and ideas can contribute to resilient and low-carbon energy infrastructure of the future. Hackers will have 2 hours to develop a demo + business case. Whether you're into software, hardware, electrical engineering, data, policy, finance, business, or just somone who is curious what an "interconnection queue" is, we hope to see you there.

​To attend only the demo portion of the event, please select the "demo only" option when registering, and please plan to attend from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

​Food and beverages will be provided.

​​Agenda

• ​​5:00pm gather and meet

• ​​5:30pm small teams are formed, problem context from industry experts

• ​​6:00pm hack

• ​​8:00pm hackers present their demos

• ​​8:30pm judging and networking

​What to bring: your climate-interested and solutions-focused attitude, your laptop or pen+paper, and your unique skillset.

​Challenge Statements: our challenge statements will focus on critical bottlenecks within electrical transmission infrastructure. More details and datasets for these challenge statements will be announced leading up to the event.

​Deliverables: your team will present a demonstration and business case. More detail on how to format and submit the deliverables will be announced leading up to the event.

​Teams: you can create your team of three at the event, or come with a team already formed.

​We are excited to be partnered with Young Professionals in Energy to bring you this event! Winners will be eligible to share their solution for a talkback session the following evening on Wednesday, May 28.

​Why electrical grid? Every time you plug in your phone or turn on the lights, you interact with a complex electrical grid that we deeply rely on. Energy prices are linked to quality of life and economic justice. And when you add in the growth in energy demand, aging infrastructure, and an unprecedented interconnection queue; it's clear that there's a high level of need for solutions.

​And how is this related to Climate Change? Electrification is a must-have climate lever, and generation capacity needs electrical transmission.

​Event partners:

​Young Professionals in Energy https://www.ypenyc.org/

​Interested in sponsoring this hackathon, have an idea for the Challenge Statements, or want to help in some other way? Reach out to danbakke1@gmail.com

• Execution & Technical Build (30%)
  How well did the team execute their idea? Did they build a tangible product that showcases the idea well?
• Impact & Feasibility (30%)
  Will the solution improve success of transmission infrastructure projects, or reduce any of their negative impacts? Is there a clear path to implementation?
• Innovation (20%)
  How creative and novel is your solution?
• Presentation (20%)
  Is your solution clearly communicated and demonstrated?