For more than a decade, the Urban Future Prize Competition has identified and accelerated the founders building the technologies, infrastructure, and systems that cities need to thrive in a changing world. What begins as an early-stage idea has repeatedly become a market-shaping company: 23 startups supported, more than $1 million awarded in non-dilutive funding, and over $515 million in follow-on capital raised - a remarkable 515x return on prize dollars deployed. ​This year’s Urban Future Summit will culminate with presentations from the 2026 Urban Future Prize Competition finalists - founders tackling some of the most urgent challenges we’re facing today, from climate resilience and emissions reduction to mobility, energy, and the circular economy. These entrepreneurs are not only competing for funding; they are competing for the opportunity to join ACRE, New York’s longest-running climatetech incubator, where breakthrough ideas are transformed into scalable businesses.

The Alliance for Clean Energy New York (ACE NY) Fall Conference is an annual industry gathering held at the Albany Capital Center that connects clean energy developers, industry stakeholders, policymakers, and energy professionals across New York State. The event features educational panels, keynote addresses, and networking sessions focused on advancing renewable energy development, grid integration, and market policy. Attendees examine key topics such as offshore wind projects, solar and energy storage deployment, transmission planning, and regulatory frameworks shaping the state’s clean energy transition. The conference provides a dedicated forum for market participants to discuss commercial strategies, regulatory compliance, and local economic impact across the region.

WindScape Brooklyn is proud to present the inaugural OHNY Weekend Tour of the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Base and South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT), which will serve New York City’s first offshore wind project, Empire Wind. Located 15-30 miles off the coast of Long Island, the project’s 54 turbines will power approximately 500,000 homes upon completion. This tour will allow participants to step onto a section of the largest offshore wind port in the United States, see the project’s large-scale infrastructure from a closer vantage point, and walk around the exterior of the O&M base that will serve Empire Wind through its three-decade lifespan. This is a once-in-a-generation project, built by local labor, that will help NYC and New York meet their renewable energy targets. Following the tour of the port, visitors will be able to explore WindScape Brooklyn’s interactive offshore wind exhibits.

In this five-part webinar series, experts from Ventolines will provide a deep dive into the offshore construction and installation processes that bring a project from permitted design to operational wind farm.

In this webinar, Sarah Carkner and Jason Frasier with the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) will discuss how new renewable generation integrates into the existing electrical grid and interacts with existing power plants, and the extent to which offshore wind energy could affect older generation assets, their retirement, output, or shift into demand response. This webinar is part of the Learning from the Experts series hosted by NYSERDA’s Offshore Wind Team and featuring experts in key offshore wind topics, including wind farm technologies, development practices, regulatory processes, and research initiatives. Complete the “Learning from the Experts” Survey Link to help guide future webinars: https://nyserda.jotform.com/team/operations/LearnFromtheExperts

Windscape Brooklyn is pleased to present a sound and video work for the immersive theater, the Storybox, created by John Roach. Breezes, gusts and gales offer a visceral experience of climate as they batter, tickle and whistle their way through our human imagination. Wind is a central feature of our myths and our histories. It has shaped our lives for millennia and our earth for eons. Roach’s work, “When We Bow Down Our Heads,” celebrates the resonance of wind and its promiscuous and borderless nature with a quadraphonic soundscape that envelops the listener. It combines 10 years of spatialized field recordings, performances by Wolf Robert Stratmann (double bass) and Inbal Hever (voice), and is punctuated by interviews with climate scientist Joonsuk Kang, artist Raven Chacon, and illustrator Lauren Redniss. Accompanying the sound is a work created for WindScape Brooklyn’s massive Storybox video wall which portrays a shifting landscape of windswept grasses, trees and turbines along with a scrolling graphic score that Roach created to guide the musicians who improvised with his soundscape. Showings of this incredible installation will kick off at the end of Climate Week on September 26 and run through October 24.