This panel will shed light on some of the most critical features of building forward-looking resilient communities, covering highly effective solutions by Babcock Ranch, BioStar Renewables and Epic Cleantec.

Babcock Ranch is America’s first solar-powered town, one of the country’s largest solar-plus-battery systems, and as of this moment the only American town proven to withstand the impacts of a category 4 hurricane. Its remarkable performance during Hurricane Ian (circa Sept 2022) established it as an international model for resilient design, preparedness, and construction.

BioStar Renewables provides financing, turnkey engineering, procurement, construction and asset management of renewable energy assets.

Born out of work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, Epic Cleantec has become a leader in the onsite water reuse space. Its work shifts the water industry toward a distributed, circular approach in which wastewater resources — water, nutrients, energy, carbon — are recovered and reused.