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VX News features interviews and market intelligence from the policymakers, executives, and innovators driving the next phase of the energy transition.

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Publisher’s Tribute: Bob Foster in His Own Words
Water’s Global Challenge: Booky Oren on De-Risking Innovation to Scale Implementation
Building the Next Phase of California’s Hydrogen Market: FPH2’s CEO Jason Caudle
Building Water Resilience Through Data: Joone Kim-Lopez of Moulton Niguel
The 14 Climate Signals That Will Define 2026 (Bloomberg Excerpt)
Little Hoover Commission’s Virtual Hearing: Senator Josh Becker on Data Centers, Energy Grid Costs, and Who Pays?
Autonomous Mobility: Billy Riggs on Perception, Cities, and Advice for LA28
Chair Pedro Nava on Utility Economics, Hidden Costs, and Protecting Californians from Rising Energy Burdens
Lauren Faber O’Connor on Scaling Tech That Wins — The Unf**ck Thesis
SoCalREN’s Charnofsky on Preparing Future Leaders for Green Careers
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— Eric Garcetti, 26th United States Ambassador to the Republic of India and Fmr. Mayor of the City of Los Angeles
“The beauty of VerdeXchange is that it encapsulates the energy that’s going on in California and finds a way to interconnect that both federally and globally.”
— Arnab Pal, Fmr. Sr. Advisor & Consultant, US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office
“VerdeXchange is this unique gathering of people from an unusual range of sectors: government, business, NGOs, investors, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and even economists, and that doesn’t happen anywhere else. ”
— Felicia Marcus, Stanford Water in the West, Fmr. Chair, CA State Water Resources Control Board
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“VerdeXchange Conferences offers attendees an opportunity to see things through other people’s lens.”
— Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President, Western States Petroleum Association
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“The hallmark of VerdeXchange is that it’s a global perspective. There is money to be made in protecting the environment, and VerdeXchange is a good place to find it.”
— Rick Cole, Pasadena City Council/ Deputy LA City Controller
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Colorful hand-drawn illustration highlighting environmental issues and solutions, including air quality, hydrogen fuel, zero emissions, infrastructure, and community activism.
Colorful illustrated infographic about government's new administration and policy focus, featuring a caricature of a man holding a lemon, emphasizing making lemonade from challenges. Highlights include strengthening the spine during the prior Trump t
Hand-drawn illustrated infographic about offshore wind development in California, highlighting funding, community input, regional allocation, and technical considerations, with colorful text and sketches of wind turbines, water, and environmental fea
A colorful illustrated infographic about California's environmental efforts. It includes messages about climate change, commitments to green initiatives, and achieving early goals. Features drawings of a map of California, a person with a flag, a rab
Colorful illustrated infographic about hydrogen fuel cell trucks and related topics, including building in Canada and the US, challenges in education and scaling, benefits like range and resilience, and the goal to move heavy-duty freight to hydrogen
Notes on energy transition focusing on fossil fuels, system-wide approach to carbon reduction, and challenges like historical inequality and cost, emphasizing need to come together, keep talking, and create trial solutions.
A colorful illustrated diagram about hydrogen energy research and ecosystem development in California. It highlights hubs, projects, community support, policy, workforce development, and investment in H2 data consortium, and emphasizes the importance
Colorful illustrated infographic about hydrogen's global development, highlighting project funding, India as a hydrogen exporter, market competition, U.S. and Canadian hydrogen strategies, environmental tech R&D, and long-term perspectives.
A colorful illustrated graphic about VerdeXchange, a climate and environmental event. It features a speaker, Mayor Karen Bass, and points on urgent climate response, opportunity in California, resilient rebuilding, and profitable climate action. The
A colorful illustrated infographic about microgrids, energy demand, and grid stabilization, highlighting strategies like data centers, AI, and renewable sources for a resilient, efficient, and safe energy grid.
Hand-drawn infographic about California's electricity management strategies, emphasizing the need for a holistic, nature-based approach, large-scale investments, and regional strategies to meet energy goals and resource challenges by 2030 and 2045.
A colorful hand-drawn infographic about hydrogen initiatives, featuring terms like 'Lancaster,' 'Pacific Hydrogen Alliance,' 'LA Metro,' and phrases about developing regional projects, creating infrastructure, and using hydrogen in everyday life. Inc
Illustrated infographic about rebuilding LA's water and power systems, resilience, biodiversity, education, community engagement, and combating misinformation, featuring icons of water, houses, buildings, trees, and a person inspecting plants.
An illustrated infographic about renewable energy and resilience featuring topics like Fukushima reconstruction, evacuation, community rebuilding, and global resilience, with visuals of a map of Japan, a wind turbine, hydrogen production, and a green
A colorful illustrated infographic discussing energy utility undergrounding, its facts, alternatives, challenges, and methods of measuring value, with various icons and text in green, blue, and black.
Illustrated infographic discussing fire damage impacts, water capture, climate change, resilience, and creating certainty for communities to survive. Includes people icons, trees, buildings, and text emphasizing flexibility, certainty, outdoor coordi
A colorful illustrated infographic discussing water charrette, fire damage, impacts, access, affordability, and wildfire urban fire issues. Highlights include county blue-ribbon panel, application, systems being offline, long-term investments, and th