Events

Ascend Analytics will join industry leaders at Solar & Storage Finance USA 2025, where developers, investors, and financiers convene to address the evolving economics of renewable energy. With markets facing new financing pressures, policy shifts, and merchant risk, our team will share insights on valuation strategies, revenue certainty, and risk-adjusted returns for storage and hybrid assets.

Ascend Summit 2025 will bring together 350+ energy professionals to explore actionable strategies for navigating the Future of Power. Attendees include utility planners, developers, corporate buyers, and financiers—uniting diverse perspectives to address reliability, resilience, and climate goals. The conference will explore the latest insights on data center load growth, tariff impacts, PPA price trends, storage optimization, and more. Join us to help shape the future of energy alongside industry leaders and Ascend’s expert team.

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Ascend Analytics returns to RE+ 2025 as a leader in data-driven strategy and solutions. As clean energy faces new headwinds—tariffs, ITC shifts, and regulatory pressure—our team will share insights on data center load growth, tariff impacts, PPA trends, storage optimization, and more. Our base case forecasts integrate realistic policy assumptions, grid reliability constraints, and historical precedent—giving investors, developers, and utilities the clarity to manage risk and seize opportunity. **Visit us in Las Vegas** to see how Ascend can help you navigate uncertainty with confidence.

The APPA Business & Financial Conference convenes public power leaders to address today’s most pressing financial, risk, and planning challenges. As a trusted partner to utilities nationwide, Ascend Analytics will share how advanced forecasting and market intelligence empower resilient, data-driven decisions in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.

The Community Solar Innovation Summit 2025 gathers policymakers, utilities, developers, and advocates to accelerate the expansion of accessible, equitable solar solutions. As an event sponsor, Ascend Analytics will be on site to share insights on forecasting, valuation, and procurement strategies that support scalable, data-driven community solar programs. Meet our team!

The APPA National Conference brings together public power leaders to tackle emerging financial and planning challenges. Ascend Analytics’ Director of Energy Analytics Solutions, Paul Eory, Robert LaFaso, Director of Forecasting & Valuation and Senior Advisor on Data Centers, Paul Saferstein, will speak on June 10 at 1:30pm, regarding Adapting to the Surge of Data Centers and AI Load Growth, offering insights on managing rapid demand growth. Visit our booth #211 for the latest Market Intelligence and forecasts shaping the power sector.

Ascend Analytics is a proud sponsor of the Energy Storage Finance & Investment Summit 2025, where industry leaders explore capital strategies for storage and hybrid assets. Dr. Gary Dorris and Adam Hise, Managing Director of Storage Risk Solutions, will present Innovations in Structuring and Finance for Renewables and Storage, highlighting how advanced hedging tools like EnSurance™ can enhance returns, reduce risk, and offer alternatives to traditional PPAs.

At CLEANPOWER 2025, Ascend Analytics will host three expert-led presentations on topics including RECs and 24/7 clean energy, rising PPA prices, and storage optimization. This premier event brings together leaders across wind, solar, storage, and transmission to shape America’s clean energy future.

Visit Booth #1421 to join us for coffee, conversation, and insights. Explore our CLEANPOWER schedule and book a meeting with our team.

Ascend Analytics is a proud sponsor of California Energy Transition 2025, where state and industry leaders convene to address the challenges of meeting California’s clean energy goals. The summit explores market design, long-term planning, procurement strategies, and infrastructure investments essential to building a reliable, decarbonized grid. Meet our team and learn how our latest Market Intelligence supports stakeholders in optimizing critical energy decisions.

The CEBA Connect: Spring Summit 2025 convenes energy and sustainability leaders from across the commercial and industrial sector to accelerate clean energy procurement and decarbonization goals. Ascend Analytics will be on site, sharing insights and solutions that support data-driven decision-making. Meet Ascend at this member-only event to discuss actionable strategies for advancing the clean energy transition.

Join Ascend Analytics, a Megawatt event sponsor, at the CalCCA 2025 Annual Conference, where leaders from California's CCAs, regulators, and industry experts will explore the future of clean energy procurement. As policy and market dynamics evolve, meet our team to discuss regulatory developments, grid reliability, and strategies shaping California's community energy landscape.

As the 2024 U.S elections bring political and regulatory changes, understanding new market opportunities remain critical in this increasingly competitive sector. Meet the Ascend team at Energy Storage Summit USA 2025 in Dallas, TX, to explore our latest Market Outlook Reports and new product releases designed to help you navigate this evolving economic landscape. Don't miss Ascend Analytics CEO Dr. Gary Dorris, who will speak on Adapting Optimization Approaches in ERCOT's Saturating Ancillary Market.

At the Solar + Wind Finance & Investment Summit 2025 in Phoenix, AZ, Ascend Analytics CEO Dr. Gary Dorris will be a guest speaker, discussing the State of the Storage Market & the Road Ahead. As markets adjust to policy shifts, tax credit structures, and transmission challenges, our experts will provide new insights on valuation, risk management, and investment strategies. Meet with us to learn more about the evolving landscape of renewable energy finance.

The ERCOT Market Summit 2025 will offer a comprehensive exploration of resource adequacy and strategies to address the evolving needs of Texas's commercial, industrial, and retail customers. Join Ascend Analytics and attend our Senior Director of Valuation Services, Dr. Michael Fisher's presentation where he discusses key trends shaping the ERCOT power market, including resource adequacy, market shifts, evolving volatility, and future grid challenges.

Ascend Analytics is sponsoring Energy Storage Summit 2025 in London, UK, where industry leaders will address the growing demand for energy storage across Europe. As deployment scales to meet net-zero targets, our experts will share data-driven inishgts on market trends and investment dynamics, drawing from our latest Market Intelligence reports on Great Britain and the Netherlands.

Meet Ascend Analytics at Projects & Money 2025, a premier conference uniting energy project developers and financial professionals to discuss market trends, investment strategies, and innovations in clean energy infrastructure. Guest speaker Adam Hise, Managing Director of Storage Risk Solutions, joins the panel discussion Jan 28th on "Cutting-Edge Financings & Offtake Strategies in the Post-IRA Landscape".

Meet Ascend at Booth 511 during Energy LIVE 2024. This event convenes 400+ key decision makers from utilities, oil & gas, renewable power generation, finance, and policymaking. Join thought leaders as they share the latest insights on building modernized infrastructure, futureproofing assets for long term profitability, and scaling emissions reduction technology.

The Battery Asset Management Summit brings together industry leaders to discuss three key themes: financial streams, battery storage lifecycles, and optimization tools. Meet Ascend Analytics at this inaugural event to discuss project financing, operations, ISO market insights, and other storage asset topics.

Join Ascend Analytics at Energy Trading Week Americas, a preeminent conference that brings together industry leaders to discuss key issues shaping the Americas market, including energy trading risk, trading digitalization, renewables & battery storage market dynamics, and compliance in the carbon markets.

Meet Ascend Analytics at VERGE 24, a conference that brings together more than 6000 leaders from corporations, investors, and developer businesses looking to tackle decarbonization problems and scale innovative climate tech solutions.

Join Dr. Gary Dorris as a featured speaker at Solar & Storage Finance USA Summit. This premier event brings decision-makers at the forefront of solar and storage projects across the United States together for two-days of deal-making, learning and networking.

Invited speaker Dr. Brandon Mauch, Director of Resource Planning Analytics at Ascend Analytics presents the latest Resource Planning best practices for extreme weather including analyzing the trade-offs between resource adequacy, cost, and efficiency when considering potential scenarios.  Other conference topics include how to achieve decarbonization goals by integrating renewable resources into long-term plans, and how to best comply with regulations and satisfy stakeholders.

The Ascend Summit explores the opportunities of the energy transition in today's power sector for policy, economic, capital investments, and power procurement perspectives. The event brings together electric power experts from across the US to offer their insights into wholesale electricity markets, resource planning, green energy purchasing, battery storage, and merchant portfolio management in a rapidly changing energy landscape.

RE+ 2024 brings the modern energy industry together to foster a cleaner future and marks its 20th year as the largest and most comprehensive event in North America for the clean energy industry. Meet Ascend Analytics at Booth #47079.

Meet Ascend Analytics at APPA Business & Financial Conference, its annual conference focused on business and finance, where public power thought leaders drive the future of public power forward.

Meet the Ascend Analytics team at American Clean Power Association's inaugural RECHARGE Summit where attendees will learn from cutting-edge sessions and explore the latest technologies in energy storage.

Meet the Ascend Analytics team at the APPA National Conference, the nation’s premier gathering of public power leaders. This event brings together visionaries and experts to exchange strategies and solutions with other public power leaders and policymakers.

Join Dr. Gary Dorris as a featured speaker at Energy Storage Finance & Investment. This event caters to energy leaders looking for the best available information on contract negotiations, revenue streams, M&A markets, merchant transactions, extracting value from storage projects and portfolios, and more.

Dr. Gary Dorris hosts a roundtable discussion at the CEBA Summit, a premier event convening energy and sustainability professionals dedicated to advancing a carbon-free energy future. Ascend Analytics is proud to be part of this community and advancing opportunities that decarbonize the power sector.

California's aggressive push towards a carbon-neutral future creates vast opportunities for clean energy development in the near and medium term. Join Mr. Robert LaFaso, Director of Valuation and Forecasting at Ascend Analytics, as a featured speaker at this important Energy Procurement, Decarbonization & Development event.

Ascend Analytics Vice President of Strategy & Operations, Mr. Scott Wrigglesworth, is a featured speaker at Energy Risk USA.  This industry-leading event brings renown energy transition risk and financing & investment thought leaders together to discuss geopolitical risk, market volatility, emerging risks, and integration of climate risk into risk frameworks.

BatterySIMM launches new capabilities that enable customers to shorten the cycle time between optimizing asset configurations and generating revenue forecasts that leading banks trust.

New Feature Highlights:

• Model up to 10 battery system configurations in the same study
• Auto-populate market participation strategies with one click to produce Ascend-trusted valuations
• Leverage enhanced data validation to fast-track delivery and improve efficiency

Register for this webinar to learn how to build battery revenue forecats effortlessly with BatterySIMM.

CLEANPOWER brings together key decision makers and stakeholders across the wind, solar, storage, hydrogen, and transmission industries for discussion, deal making, and networking. Meet Ascend Analytics at Booth 3107.

Dr. Brandon Mauch, Ascend Analytics Managing Director of Resource Planning along with Dr. Lena Perkins, Senior Resource Planner at Palo Alto Utilities are featured speakers at the Annual IRP Summit where utilities, state regulatory staff & commissioners, and resource planning thought leaders meet to share, learn, and network.  

The CalCCA Annual Conference brings together state and local elected officials, energy policymakers, and distinguished energy industry thought leaders for unparalleled learning opportunities and insights. Meet Ascend Analytics, a Megawatt Sponsor, at this event in San Jose, California.

In the NYISO and ISO-NE electricity markets, increasing concerns about the costs of the energy transition has led to project and contract cancellations, while a shift to marginal ELCC accreditation in capacity markets puts downward pressure on storage project returns. Clean energy initiatives such as the Massachusetts Clean Peak Standard and New York’s 10-Point Action Plan will continue to influence development as will load growth in a more capacity-constrained grid.

The need to maintain profitability amidst razor-thin margins and unpredictable market dynamics necessitates advanced hedging strategies for Energy Retailers.  Join Ascend Analytics as we share how to:

• Evaluate the impact of extreme events on retail margins
• Identify risk failure points such as counter-party credit risk, PFE, cash flow and revenue forecasting  
• Optimize hedge ratios and minimize downside risks effectively

Energy storage is no longer an aside or a luxury; it is a necessity if we want to reach our global net-zero goals and stay on track. Join Ascend Analytics at the Energy Storage Summit and hear Dr. Gary Dorris, CEO of Ascend Analytics presents on Day 1, Prospecting New Market Opportunities.

With over 500 attendees, Ascend Analytics is proud to be an event sponsor at the Retail Energy Conference which is North America’s largest assembly of retail energy professionals, presenting unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

Join Ascend Analytics at the Solar + Wind Finance & Investment Summit, a premier event that attracts more than 2700 participants, as we discuss innovative financing and offtake structures during our conference speaking session.  Other event topics include how the emerging transferability market is creating a new outlook on financing possibilities, how to capitalize on the future opportunities, and how to handle the lingering difficulties of the present.

Ascend Analytics presents at the ERCOT Market Summit. This conference brings together policymakers with utility, solar, wind, IPP, finance, and trading executives. Topics include assessing the regulatory changes that will impact ERCOT in 2024 and beyond as well as the impact on resource adequacy, power prices, project siting, and how to meet the shifting needs of commercial, industrial, and retail customers.

The value creation of storage now flows across energy, ancillary services, and emissions. Constructing asset and nodal-specific ISO bidding strategies to maximize risk-adjusted returns also requires creating the levers to define and construct AI driven bidding, including:

Topics will include:

• Constructing asset and nodal-specific strategies to maximize risk-adjusted returns
• Risk management frameworks for storage operations
• Best practices for normalizing results in competitive bidding simulations
• Quantifying and optimizing for carbon emission reductions using locational hourly emission values

Key Takeaways include how to:

• Optimize the risk-return tradeoff of portfolios that include merchant generation, renewables, storage, load, offtake agreements, and hedges
• Design a portfolio that meets budget under extreme weather and commodity price movements
• Select meaningful risk metrics for decision-making and compliance
• Create dashboards that support active portfolio management
• Ensure portfolios capture the value of 24x7 carbon-free and hourly nodal emissions

Meet Ascend Analytics, Booth #2049, at Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America! Ascend Analytics is proud to sponsor this premier conference focused on solar, energy storage, and EV charging infrastructure that attracts more than 9,000 energy leaders that are helping to accelerate the energy transition.

Online | 11:00AM - 12:00PM MT

With low prices, high wind penetration, and an incoming surge of solar, SPP is well-situated to support offtake demand for clean energy. As load grows with electrification, data centers, and green hydrogen production the need for new capacity will become more acute, with a rapidly rising value for capacity through the end of the decade. In this webinar, we will discuss Ascend Analytics’ outlook on the SPP power market, identifying key dynamics and opportunities for renewables and storage.

Online | 11:00am - 12:00pm MT

For utilities, navigating the unpredictable nature of weather-related energy supply and demand amplifies the importance of a rigorous analysis of resource adequacy to uphold a dependable power grid.

• Role of temperature and correlated outages in resource adequacy assessment
• Role of storage and duration implications for resource adequacy analysis
• Electric Load Carrying Capability (ELCC) by resource type
• Evaluating emerging technologies to support renewable integration

This US-focused energy storage gathering convenes 150+ energy developers and investors to collaborate and discuss upcoming opportunities for energy market solutions and innovations.