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Workshop II: Are EVs Really Better? Understand the Emissions Tipping Points (Including MCE rebates & charger incentives)
Breakfast break w/Sponsor Bingo
Official Welcome & RISE Leadership Award
Break
Asking the Critical Questions Forum: To Till & EV or Not to Till & EV?
Catered lunch & Wine
Thank you to our exclusive event sponsor MCE.
MCE is a not-for-profit, public agency that has been setting the standard for clean energy in California since 2010. MCE offers 60-100% renewable power at stable rates, significantly reducing greenhouse emissions and reinvesting millions in local programs.
Two parallel workshops. Spend 30-35 minutes at each workshop, then groups will switch.
Hot water heating is energy and cost intensive. Join ergSol’s Monika Weiss and Treasury Americas’ Will Drayton for an actionable exploration of nascent opportunities for the wine industry–solar thermal hot water and energy storage. Learn how ergSol’s building-integrated designs provide renewable hot water while preserving winery aesthetics. Drayton will share the why, how, and outcomes of the ergSol system at their Sonoma bottling facility, and how it integrates in their plans for net zero emissions by 2030. Consider if solar thermal could make sense for your operation, both to reduce costs and increase renewable energy. As more and more operations aim to move toward energy independence, Drayton and Weiss will also share insights on the future of energy storage.
Action Opportunities:
Will Drayton is the Director of Technical Viticulture, Sustainability and Research at Treasury Wine Estates
(TWE), one of the world’s largest wine companies. Will has been with TWE since 2008, beginning in
viticulture at Etude Winery and has held many positions within the viticulture and winemaking groups.
In his current role, Will guides TWE’s US sustainability efforts in addition to technical and scientific aspects of winegrowing in California. He serves on the committee that guides the Sustainable Wine Roundtable, Chair of the PD-GWSS board for the CDFA and board member of the Los Carneros Water District.
Will holds a Master’s degree from UC Davis in Horticulture and Agronomy and undergraduate degree in
Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Will resides with his young family in Sebastopol, CA.
Monika is an environmental pioneer and management consultant with extensive national and international experience in helping people and organizations turn potential to success. She has a strong background in collaborative leadership in cross-cultural, multi-industry environments and public-private consortium. As an experienced project manager and change agent she is committed to developing sustainable organizations. Her skills include: finding organizational forms to fit the tasks of innovating a new technology; preparing the infrastructure and raising the public awareness for product commercialization; valuing diversity to create synergy. Monika’s work focus is on sustainable business strategies and renewable technologies, especially in the solar thermal realm. She holds a M.S. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology.
Two parallel workshops. Spend 30-35 minutes at each workshop, then groups will switch.
As California mandates 35% zero-emission vehicle sales by year’s end, this workshop cuts through the confusion surrounding EVs’ environmental impact. Understand the lifecycle analysis comparing EVs to conventional vehicles, examining crucial factors like battery production, grid electricity sources, and vehicle usage. Understand the science-backed tipping points where EVs become the cleaner choice. Get practical guidance for evaluating electric cars, trucks, and tractors for your wine industry operations. Plus, get up-to-date information on available incentives, including MCE Clean Energy rebates and California CORE subsidies for cleaner off-road vehicles, which can significantly reduce your transition costs.
Action Opportunities:
2-3 speakers coming soon
MCE is a not-for-profit public agency and the preferred electricity provider for more than 580,000 customer accounts and 1.5 million residents and businesses across Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, and Solano counties. Setting the standard for clean energy in California since 2010, MCE leads with 100% renewable power at stable rates, delivering a 1200 MW peak load and significantly reducing greenhouse emissions and reinvesting millions in local programs. For more information about MCE, visit mceCleanEnergy.org, or follow us on your preferred social platform @mceCleanEnergy.
Featuring Ray Isle, Executive Wine Editor of Food & Wine and Author of “The World in a Wineglass”
Join acclaimed wine journalist Ray Isle for a multifaceted exploration of “energy” in wine – from the vitality of healthy soils to the skilled work of vineyard teams, from production and supply chain to market momentum. Drawing from his latest book “The World in a Wineglass” and two decades at the forefront of wine journalism, Isle will discuss some of the trends he’s seeing in sustainable and regenerative viticulture, and the growth in trade and consumer interest in sustainable and climate-smart wines. Through engaging storytelling and market insights, he’ll explore the intersection of fine wine and sustainable winegrowing and the opportunity for cascading benefits: enhancing wine quality, engaging new customers and building loyalty, and leveraging new marketing angles in a challenging wine economy.
Action Opportunities:
Ray Isle is the Executive Wine Editor of Food & Wine and the Wine & Spirits Editor of Travel + Leisure. He writes Food & Wine’s monthly “Bottle Service” column, and oversees wine content for both brands as well as contributing regular print and online features about wine, spirits, and wine-related travel. His articles about wine, beer, food and spirits have appeared in a wide range of national publications, as well as in Best American Food Writing. He has won the IACP Award for Narrative Beverage Writing three times, the gold award from the North American Travel Journalists Association, and been nominated three times for the James Beard Award in beverage writing. He speaks regularly on wine at events around the country and is a frequent guest on national media, appearing on programs such as NBC’s Today, CBS Mornings, CNBC’s Squawk Box, American Public Media’s “Splendid Table,” and many others. His recent book The World in a Wineglass was published in 2023 by Scribner’s. Follow his wine exploits on Instagram @rayisle.
Purchase his latest book at RISE Climate & Wine Symposium.
Join Master Sommelier Andrea Robinson for an evidence-based exploration of two actively debated vineyard transitions–conservation/no-till and the pros and cons of EV tractors. Morgan Twain-Peterson MW of Bedrock Vineyards and Margarita Postoronca of CHANDON will candidly share their experience implementing conservation and no-till practices and being early adopters of EV tractors. Discover how these growers are realizing the documented benefits of dramatically reducing tillage–from enhanced soil health and water retention to reduced erosion and operational costs–while successfully navigating site-specific challenges like cover crop selection and weed management. Plus, get candid insights about where electric tractors excel–from mowing and under-vine cultivation to spraying–and where traditional equipment still plays a crucial role. This practical discussion will debate when and if to implement these climate-smart practices across different vineyard conditions.
Action Opportunities:
Andrea Robinson is a world-renowned Master Sommelier who takes the seemingly daunting subject of wine and food, and brings it down to earth for all to understand and enjoy. Robinson, one of only 26 female Master Sommeliers in the world, couples this distinction with a strong culinary pedigree as a graduate and former Dean of the French Culinary Institute, and the winner of three James Beard Awards. In addition, she has been widely featured across leading national television networks and publications as the “go-to” expert for all things wine. She and her husband John live in Napa Valley.
Morgan’s early exposure to wine and winemaking was thanks to his father Joel Peterson, who had started a small passion project called Ravenswood Winery— a job for which he was steadily not making money while working out of a small building along the big curve on Broadway. Though always enamored with the wine industry, Morgan bypassed a traditional Viticulture and Enology degree and studied History and Political Science at Vassar College. After undergrad, he enrolled at Columbia University with an eye towards a Masters in American Studies. meanwhile working at a small shop in the Upper East Side called Pet Wines. There, he met Chris Cottrell, with whom he became fast friends.
Morgan’s early exposure to wine and winemaking was thanks to his father Joel Peterson, who had started a small passion project called Ravenswood Winery— a job for which he was steadily not making money while working out of a small building along the big curve on Broadway. Though always enamored with the wine industry, Morgan bypassed a traditional Viticulture and Enology degree and studied History and Political Science at Vassar College. After undergrad, he enrolled at Columbia University with an eye towards a Masters in American Studies. meanwhile working at a small shop in the Upper East Side called Pet Wines. There, he met Chris Cottrell, with whom he became fast friends.
MCE is a not-for-profit public agency and the preferred electricity provider for more than 580,000 customer accounts and 1.5 million residents and businesses across Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, and Solano counties. Setting the standard for clean energy in California since 2010, MCE leads with 100% renewable power at stable rates, delivering a 1200 MW peak load and significantly reducing greenhouse emissions and reinvesting millions in local programs. For more information about MCE, visit mceCleanEnergy.org, or follow us on your preferred social platform @mceCleanEnergy.
The Agriculture Energy Savings Action Plan (AESAP) helps agriculture operations by offering a variety of rebates, incentives, and financing options to help your operation reduce energy usage and costs.
Upgrading ventilation, irrigation, and other critical systems with more energy-efficient options is one way to reduce your overhead, improve production, and preserve natural resources.
At Scout, our mission is to assist growers, wineries and vineyard management companies achieve their financial objectives, grow better quality fruit, and increase their yields using data harvested during the growing season. We believe in the blending of traditional farming intuition with state of the art data collection and AI assisted insights will enable sustainable, profitable, and high quality farming for generations. We are dedicated to helping our customers make the best decisions to maximize their efforts across all their planted sites while improving their bottom line.
Napa Green is a global leader in sustainable winegrowing, setting the highest bar for sustainability and climate action in the wine industry. Napa Green facilitates systematic soil to bottle certification for wineries and vineyards, and provides the resources, tools and connections to continuously level up leadership. In 2021, Napa Green was the first sustainable winegrowing program in the world to redevelop Vineyard certification standards to focus on climate action, regenerative carbon farming, and social equity. In 2022, Napa Green and community partners launched a first of its kind, six-event Climate & Wine Symposium (Napa THRIVES now RISE) with over 65 speakers and 600 total guests.
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