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Webinar - Energy Technology and Industrial Heritage: Opportunities for Adaptive Reuse and Place-Based Design Thinking
United States electric utilities will invest $1.4 trillion dollars in new and updated energy infrastructure in the next five years. This webinar will review some evolving energy technologies, with a focus on those that are suited for novel use in industrial heritage landscapes. By reviewing example companies, particularly those working in energy storage or generation in underground spaces and abandoned mine land, webinar participants will learn about adaptive reuse and development opportunities using energy as an anchor around which redevelopment and remediation planning can occur. We will review example incentive programs states have created to capture a larger share of energy infrastructure investment, concluding with an outline of how historic preservation professionals are uniquely suited to coordinate these efforts.
1. Summarize various energy technologies that can be integrated with adaptive reuse designs for industrial heritage sites.
2. Explain how heritage professionals can help communities shape future energy development as part of redevelopment or remediation projects, particularly involving underground assets.
3. Discuss how preservation laws, policies, incentives, and practices can be refocused as processes that facilitate community-based design.
4. Identify ways that agencies or companies can build collaborations with universities, colleges, and/or schools to facilitate these projects.
Speaker:
Timothy Scarlett
Associate Professor
Michigan Technological University
December 18, 2025
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