Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will be joined in Fort Collins next week by two other governors, Steve Bullock of Montana and Matt Mead of Wyoming to talk about the changing landscape of Western energy.

The panel discussion at the 21st Century Energy Transition Symposium will be moderated by another governor, Bill Ritter, a Democrat who preceded Hickenlooper.

Hickenlooper and Bullock are Democrats. Mead is a Republican.

The symposium is Oct. 30-31 in the Lory Student Center Grand Ballroom at Colorado State University. There is no charge, but registration is required to attend, as well as to watch it on a livestream.

The symposium is put on by the Center for the New Energy Economy at CSU, the Energy Institute and the School of Global Environmental Sustainability.

“As in past years, CSU strives to host a balanced event that welcomes diverse thought leaders,” Maury Dobbie, assistant director of the Center for the New Energy Economy and the symposium’s chief organizer, stated. “That is, and always will be, our mission.”

The symposium’s keynote speaker next Monday is Amory Lovins, co-founder and chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, as well as a lunch panel of women executives in clean energy.

Bobi Garrett, deputy laboratory director and chief operative officer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. The panel will include Amy Halloran of Sandia National Laboratories, Laura Nelson of the Utah Governor’s Office of Energy Development and Cathy Woollums of Berkshire Hathaway Energy.

On Tuesday, a session called “The Grand Challenges Facing our Country: Solutions and Innovations” will include talks from eight research scientists, including CSU’s Chuck Henry, chair of the Department of Chemistry in the College of Natural Sciences, and Tom Bradley, associate professor of mechanical and systems engineering in the Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering.several.

Bryan Willson, director of the CSU Energy institute, and will moderate.

The symposium also is expected to address decarbonizing fossil fuels;clean energy leadership by cities, states and corporations; effective cybersecurity and energy security; behavior and human dimensions of energy transition; and “repowering the Western economy.”