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Ascend Summit 2023

Realizing the Energy Transition

October 18-20

The Ascend Summit brings together prominent electric power experts to offer fresh perspectives on wholesale electricity markets, resource planning, green energy purchasing, battery storage, and merchant portfolio management.  

Venue:
Embassy Suites by Hilton Boulder
Ascend Summit Rate
303.443.2600

Summit Registration

Summit Agenda 2023

Join us to learn about opportunities in today's rapidly changing energy landscape!

Industry-Leading Insights for:

  • Utility Power Planners
  • Renewables + Energy Storage Developers
  • Corporate Off-Takers
  • Power Operations Managers
  • Investors in Clean Power
  • Power Supply and Market Analysts
  • Power Reliability Analysts

Conference Learning Outcomes include:

  • Key changes to regional energy markets
  • Current clean energy policy updates
  • Approaches to assess power system reliability with renewables & storage
  • Best practices for transitioning to 24x7 green power procurement
  • Bid optimization and operations strategies for storage and hybrids
  • Market outlook, expectations, and geospatial dynamics of opportunity identification

Expert Topics Tailored to Today's Opportunities for Realizing the Energy Transition

  • Disequilibrium opportunities, short-squeeze, and sustained congestion persistence
  • New frontiers in contracting and renewables + storage
  • Hourly REC bonuses for renewables + storage and realizing power firming premiums
  • Power system reliability and improving resiliency with retiring thermal
  • Opportunities emerging from decarbonizing transportation and buildings

The wide-scale adoption of renewable energy is creating unprecedented structural change in energy supply. The evolution taking place in our electric grids requires greater insight into the economic opportunities addressed at the Ascend Summit.

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

8:15am - 8:45am

Breakfast provided by hotel

8:45am - 11:45am

Pre-Summit Workshops

Workshop A

Renewables and Storage Opportunities and Valuation

Presenters: Michael Fisher, PhD, Senior Manager of Portfolio Analytics, Ascend Analytics

  • BatterySIMM Introduction: configure studies for standalone and hybrid resources, overlay common forms of offtake and hedging contracts, and view results
  • Review recent M&A transactions and trends and dive into understanding TB4 swaps in CAISO

Workshop B

Portfolio Management & Budgeting

Presenters: Scott Wrigglesworth, VP of Operations & Strategy, Ascend Analytics

  • Review why power portfolios should look beyond VaR and implement best practice flow metrics like GMaR and discuss hedging strategies for protection of financial value
  • Model a case study on Merchant Generation Portfolio, Load Servicing Entity Portfolio and Integrated Portfolio and consider Counterparty Credit Risk through PFE and collateral call risk

Workshop C

Clean Power Supply Procurement & Reliability Planning

Presenters: Brandon Mauch, PhD, Director of Resource Planning Analytics, Ascend Analytics and Anthony Boukarim, Senior Manager of Resource Planning & Valuation, Ascend Analytics

  • Review resource adequacy analysis with high levels of renewables and model capacity expansion modeling for a clean energy portfolio
  • Share best practice for efficient and effective power procurement and track hourly load and generation for evaluation and accounting of carbon emissions

11:45am - 12:45pm

Lunch provided for Workshop attendees

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

1:00pm - 1:15pm

Opening Remarks: Opportunities in Today's Energy Landscape

Speaker: Gary Dorris, PhD, CEO, Ascend Analytics

1:15pm - 2:20pm

Keynote Panel: Realizing the Energy Transition

The rapid acceleration of the Energy Transition has created new opportunities and challenges. In this panel, we will explore what we might expect next on a pathway of electrification and decarbonization. We will discuss the macro drivers, economic opportunity, 24x7 green, impediments of queue reform transmission, and reliability.

Moderator: Gary Dorris, PhD, CEO, Ascend Analytics
Speakers: Mark Gabriel, President & CEO, United Power; Alice Jackson, SVP, Xcel Energy; Eric Blank, Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission; Monica Padilla, Chief Operating Officer & Director of Power Sources, Silicon Valley Clean Energy

2:20pm - 2:40pm

Break & PM Snack

Sponsored by

2:40pm - 3:30pm

Market Purchases: Conditions & Directions for Power Purchases & Corporate Clean Energy

The future of 24x7 green changes the future value of RECs to be time (hourly) sensitive and has significant implications for choices made today. We will explore how to best position renewable contracts today for a significantly different future and how hourly attributes and storage can consistently be incorporated into today's procurement decisions.

Moderator: Scott Wrigglesworth, VP of Operations & Strategy, Ascend Analytics
Speakers:  Rob Threlkeld, Director of Global Energy Strategy, General Motors; Amanda Peterson Corio, Global Head of Data Center Energy, Google; Vibhu Kaushik, SVP & Global Head of Energy, Utilities, & Storage, Prologis; Chris Taylor, CEO, GridStor

3:30pm - 4:10pm

Asset Sales: Expectations & Direction

Irrational exuberance or carpe diem, will today's winners be tomorrow's losers? What creates sustained project value and when is it at risk? We will review project prices, rationalizations, and current market conditions for asset sales.

Moderator: Michael Fisher, PhD, Senior Manager of Portfolio Analytics, Ascend Analytics
Speakers: Hagen Lee, CEO, Peregrine Energy Solutions; Andrew Waranch, CEO, Spearmint Energy; Michael Rucker, Founder & CEO, Scout Clean Energy

4:10pm - 5:10pm

Strategies for Carbon-Free Energy Supply

Utilities and Corporates are pursuing 100% carbon-free energy supply goals with great speed. Learn the strategic approaches, resource needs, and challenges to build a carbon-free energy supply portfolio.

Moderator: Mark Dyson, Managing Director, RMI
Speakers: Lena Perkins, PhD, Emerging Technologies Manager & Senior Resource Planner, City of Palo Alto; Shawn Marshall, CEO, Peninsula Clean Energy; Hemant Jain, VP Electricity Supply, NYPA; Scott Mellon, Assistant General Manager - Power Management, City of Glendale; Zakary Liske, Senior Manager of Power Operations, SVCE

5:10pm - 6:30pm

Cocktail Hour

Sponsored by

Leyline logo

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Dinner featuring Guest Speaker

Sponsored by

Accure logo

Thursday, October 19, 2023

7:45am - 8:45am

Breakfast

9:00am - 9:45am

Keynote Panel: Development Opportunities & Risk

We discuss changes to the landscape of power procurement and what they mean for clean energy investment.
Moderator: Jon Powers, Co-Founder & President, CleanCapital
Speakers: Woody Rubin, CDO, AES; Joshua Rogol, CDO & President, Strata Clean Energy; Eric Stoutenburg, PhD, Director of Energy Storage, Eolian; Johannes Rittershausen, CEO & Co-Founder, Convergent Energy + Power

9:45am - 10:30am

Power Procurement Trends & Future Expectations

Moderator: Anthony Boukarim, Senior Manager of Resource Planning & Valuation, Ascend Analytics
Speakers: Michael Enger, Director of Energy & Market Operations, Austin Energy; Paul Eory, Manager of Strategy & Planning, Lansing Board of Water & Light; Andrea Torres, Senior Portfolio Manager, San Diego Community Power

10:30am - 11:00am

Break & AM Snack

11:00am - 12:00pm

Breakout Sessions (A & B):

Session A: Utility Track | Correlated Risk in Capacity Accreditation: Knowing Where the Value Lies

Moderator: Zach Brode, Manager of Analytics, Ascend Analytics
Speakers: Jared Hansen, Director of Resource Planning, Idaho Power; Wesley Cole, PhD, Senior System Modeler, NREL

Session B: Developer Track | Storage vs. Carbon Capture and Clean Fuels for Reliability and Cost Minimization

Moderator: Rodney Kizito, PhD, Senior Manager of Energy Analytic Services, Ascend Analytics
Speakers: Caleb Stephenson, EVP of Commercial Operations, Calpine; Marco Ferrara, PhD, Co-Founder & SVP Software & Analytics, Form Energy

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

Sponsored by

Lockton logo

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Breakout Sessions (A & B):

Session A: Utility & Developer Track | Operations of Storage & Renewables: DA & RT Bid Optimization Strategies & Risk vs. Return

We'll explore applications and approaches to leveraging machine learning tools to enhance asset returns through ISO bidding and state of charge optimization of storage.

Moderator: Jeff Hartsough, Managing Director of Asset Operations, Ascend Analytics
Speakers: Chris Eshleman, Director of Energy Analytics & Electric Supply, East Bay Community Energy; Ryan Butterfield, Senior Director of Energy Storage, National Grid Renewables; Ted James, Head of North America, ACCURE Battery Intelligence

Session B: Developer Track | Revenue Insurance for Merchant Storage

Moderator: Adam Hise, Managing Director of Storage Risk Solutions, Ascend Analytics
Speakers: Andrew Galen, Renewables Strategist, Nephila Climate; Ken-Ichi Hino, Executive Director of Energy Storage, UBS

2:30pm - 3:15pm

Ascend Market Outlook

Transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables holds the potential to create cycles of excess and shortages leading to depressed and extreme prices. Where, when, and how do opportunities unfold for renewables, storage, and DERs and what are the indicators of opportunity.

Speakers: Brent Nelson, PhD, Managing Director of Markets & Strategy, Ascend Analytics; Santiago Saravia, Renewable Energy Analyst, Ascend Analytics

3:15pm - 5:30pm

Outdoor Activities (Weather Permitting)

Enjoy Boulder's best local hikes with your Ascend guides.

We have two hike options: one more strenuous, and one more flat. If you are hiking, wear sturdy shoes and be prepared for changing weather conditions. For those not hiking, we will have lawn games at Chautauqua Park.

Black Diamond: 1st/2nd Flatiron Trail
Strenuous 3.6 miles with 1,446 feet of climbing

Blue Square: Bluebell Trail to Enchanted Mesa
Moderate 2.5 miles with 500 feet of climbing

Green Circle: Lawn games at Chautauqua Park
Relaxing 0.0 miles with 0 feet of climbing

5:30pm - 8:00pm

Reception: Cocktails & Heavy Appetizers at Chautauqua Dining Hall

Sponsored by

Clean Capital

After 8:00pm

Optional informal gathering at Bohemian Biergarten

Friday, October 20th, 2023

8:00am - 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am - 11:30am

Post-Summit Technical Sessions

Session A

PowerSIMM Planner Technical Session

Presenters: Brandon Mauch, PhD, Director of Resource Planning Analytics; Zach Brode, Manager of Analytics

  • Introduce PowerSIMM's new UI and feature improvements
  • Demonstrate resource adequacy models, ARS model configuration and outputs, not model emerging technology for IRPs in PowerSIMM

Session B

PowerSIMM Portfolio Manager Technical Session

Presenters: Scott Wrigglesworth, VP of Operations & Strategy; Anand Govindarajan, Manager of Energy Analytic Solutions

  • Discuss PowerSIMM configurations for various portfolio use cases
  • Understand how to add hypothetical hedges for measuring risk reduction and consider prospective resources or PPAs in a portfolio and the impact to portfolio risk and return trade-offs.

Session C

Market Intelligence & BatterySIMM Technical Session

Presenters: Brent Nelson, PhD, Managing Director of Markets & Strategy; Santiago Saravia, Renewable Energy Analyst; Robert LaFaso, Manager of Resource Valuation

  • Configure and visualize storage/hybrid resource simulations; calculate contract settlements alongside market revenues
  • Evaluate interconnection queues, Energy Community eligibility, county-level investment rankings, historical price metrics, market forwards, and Ascend price forecasts

Session D

SmartBidder Technical Session

Presenters: Jeff Hartsough, Managing Director of SmartBidder; Tapas Peshin, Manager of Bidder & Trading

  • Introduction to SmartBidder's UI via a "day in the life" - including a demo of bidding strategy customization and evaluation to optimize project value
  • Model live operations, including manual overrides, strategy scheduling, and outages and calibration of risk and definition of risk policies and procedures

Afternoon

For those wishing to stay in Boulder throughout the afternoon, Ascend staff are available to be your guides to local breweries, road cycling, gravel cycling, or eBiking around town. Please reach out to us at ascendsummit@ascendanalytics.com if interested.

8:00am - 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am - 12:00pm

Technical Sessions

A - PowerSIMM Planner
B - PowerSIMM Portfolio Manager
C - BatterySIMM
D - SmartBidder

Afternoon

For those wishing to stay in Boulder throughout the afternoon, Ascend staff are available to be your guides in local breweries, road cycling, gravel cycling, or eBiking around town. Please notify Ascend if interested.

9:00pm - 12:00pm

Session A | PowerSIMM Planner

Presenters:

Brandon Mauch, PhD, Director of Resource Planning Analytics; and Zach Brode, Manager of Analytics.

Session B | PowerSIMM Portfolio Manager

Presenter:

Scott Wrigglesworth, VP of Operations & Strategy

Session C | Market Intelligence & BatterySIMM

Presenters:

Brent Nelson, PhD, Managing Director of Markets & Strategy; Santiago Saravia, Renewable Energy Analyst; Robert LaFaso, Manager of Resource Valuation

Session D | SmartBidder

Presenters:

Jeff Hartsough, Managing Director of SmartBidder; Tapas Peshin, Manager of Bidder & Trading; Jonah Simon, Director of Battery Products Development

Ascend Speakers

Gary Dorris, PhD, CEO & President, Ascend Analytics

Gary Dorris, PhD, CEO & President, Ascend Analytics

Dr. Dorris has been a pioneer of innovative solutions for energy planning and risk.  For the last dozen years, Gary has introduced utilities to new solutions to model and analyze planning portfolios.  His analytic innovations and expertise are sought by industry leaders including expert testimony in some of the most prominent resource planning and risk management proceedings in the country.  His company’s software solutions are used by 3 of the top 5 utilities in America and many COOPs and municipalities. He has established industry standards for model validation, monetization of risk, portfolio selection, and performance metrics.  In 2001, Dr. Dorris won distinguished recognition from the IPE for contributions to the field of energy risk management.  Dr. Dorris holds a Ph.D. in applied economics and finance from Cornell University and a BS in mechanical engineering and BA in economics with Magna Cum Laude distinction also from Cornell University.

Brent Nelson, PhD, Managing Director of Markets & Strategy, Ascend Analytics

Brent Nelson, PhD, Managing Director of Markets & Strategy, Ascend Analytics

Dr. Nelson leads forecasting practice and provides expertise in new market dynamics, storage and renewable project valuation, resource planning, and renewable integration.  Prior to joining Ascend, Dr. Nelson was an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University, while also holding a collaborative appointment with the directorate of Scientific Computing and Energy Analysis at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.  He also worked for the US Department of Energy from 2014-2016, focusing on technology research and development programs for energy efficiency and demand side management.  He has extensive experience in energy technology and energy system modeling, with a focus on understanding the impacts of future shifts in technology adoption. Dr. Nelson holds PhD and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a bachelor‘s degee in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Scott Wrigglesworth, Vice President, Operations & Strategy, Ascend Analytics

Scott Wrigglesworth, Vice President, Operations & Strategy, Ascend Analytics

Scott Wrigglesworth provides clients with expertise and analytical support in areas of energy portfolio management. Before joining the company, he spent 17 years with Dayton Power and Light and the AES Corporation.  There he focused on practical solutions in energy analytics, actionable reporting, margin modeling and portfolio optimization.  At Ascend, Scott applies his experience in commercial portfolio optimization to the Ascend Analytics team in a multifaceted role.  Mr. Wrigglesworth also teaches a course in Energy Markets at the University of Dayton from where he also earned his MBA.  He holds a BA in Global Economics and International Business from Cedarville University.

Brandon Mauch, PhD, Director of Resource Planning Analytics, Ascend Analytics

Brandon Mauch, PhD, Director of Resource Planning Analytics, Ascend Analytics

Dr. Brandon Mauch leads a team of analysts at Ascend in providing modeling support for resources planning. He is currently managing work for NorthWestern Energy and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Prior to joining Ascend, Brandon was a Senior Program Manager for CLEAResult Consulting where he managed utility energy efficiency and demand response programs for Midwestern utilities. Before that, he was a Utility Regulation Engineer for the Iowa Utilities Board where he worked on regional energy policy issues, resource planning and rate cases for Iowa’s investor-owned utilities. Brandon holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University where his research focused on wind power forecasting and risk assessment of wind forecasts. He also holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas. 

Anthony Boukarim, Senior Manager of Resource Planning & Valuation, Ascend Analytics

Anthony Boukarim, Senior Manager of Resource Planning & Valuation, Ascend Analytics

Anthony Boukarim conducts renewables valuation and resource planning for utilities and CCAs providing consulting expertise for risk management and renewable integration. His portfolio of projects in the US includes resource valuation, RFO administration, and forecasting analyses for Clean Power Alliance, Peninsula Clean Energy, Burbank Water and Power, Salt River Project Power and Water, among others. Prior to joining Ascend, Mr. Boukarim worked in Arthur D. Little/McKinsey & Co as a management consultant in their Energy & Utilities Practice. Mr. Boukarim has also worked as a research analyst in energy topics for Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley. In addition to four years of international experience in the energy sector, he holds a master’s degree in Energy Resources Engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut.

Adam Hise, Managing Director of Storage Risk Solutions, Ascend Analytics

Adam Hise, Managing Director of Storage Risk Solutions, Ascend Analytics

Adam Hise leads development and commercialization of insurance-backed revenue risk transfer offerings for storage and renewable facilities. Before joining Ascend, he founded and led EnBalance Storage until the 2021 acquisition by Ascend, developing novel risk shifting products to advance storage and renewable energy deployment.  Prior to EnBalance, he did power marketing with Scout Clean Energy and emerging tech strategy consulting.  He holds an MS in Environment Science & Engineering from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and BS in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Michael Fisher, PhD, Senior Manager of Portfolio Analytics, Ascend Analytics

Michael Fisher, PhD, Senior Manager of Portfolio Analytics, Ascend Analytics

Michael Fisher, PhD leads the BatterySIMM team which produces bankable asset valuations and revenue forecasts for merchant storage.  Dr. Fisher has spent the last 15 years of his career in the energy industry, most recently as Duquesne Light‘s head of business development where he grew a development platform for the utility‘s unregulated businesses.  He has a deep understanding of what developers and project finance professionals need across the project lifecycle.  Dr Fisher‘s doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon explored the technical, economic, and emissions impacts of distributed storage, where he created a battery optimization model that explored how storage behaves when responding to retail and wholesale value streams.  Dr. Fisher holds a Ph.D in energy policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in economics and BAS in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Rodney Kizito, PhD, Senior Manager of Energy Analytics Services, Ascend Analytics

Rodney Kizito, PhD, Senior Manager of Energy Analytics Services, Ascend Analytics

Dr Rodney Kizito will serve as the client-facing lead, handling client matters and ensuring work product, releases and analytic initiatives are delivered in a timely fashion.  Prior to joining Ascend, he spent 6 years working for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Solar Energy Technologies Office.   During his time with the DOE, he managed a $20M+ portfolio of government funded projects that focused on the development, demonstration, deployment, and commercialization of solar energy related technologies.  Rodney has a PhD in Industrial Engineering and research backgrounds in predictive analytics and techno-economic optimization of solar-plus-storage microgrid systems.

Jeff Hartsough, Managing Director of Asset Operations, Ascend Analytics

Jeff Hartsough, Managing Director of Asset Operations, Ascend Analytics

Jeff Hartsough leads the SmartBidder business, Ascend‘s real-time operations optimization platform for storage, renewables, hybrids, and load.  He works across the technical and commercial teams to drive platform innovation centered on customer needs and ensure customers fully realize the value of SmartBidder‘s optimization capabilities.  Prior to joining Ascend, Jeff was most recently a senior product manager at Cisco Systems, and has led product development on energy, IoT, and cybersecurity products, and also previously worked as a management consultant.  He holds an MBA from University of California - Berkeley and a BA from Yale University.

Santiago Saravia, Renewable Energy Analyst, Ascend Analytics

Santiago Saravia, Renewable Energy Analyst, Ascend Analytics

Santiago Saravia serves as an analyst on the BatterySIMM team, where he leads valuation efforts for dozens of storage projects across deregulated U.S. power markets, including project finance and M&A support for over 5GW of hybrid and standalone projects in Texas and California. Santiago is an expert on location-specific Inflation Reduction Act tax incentives for renewable and storage projects, having developed maps to identify current and future eligibility. 

Zach Brode, Manager of Analytics, Ascend Analytics

Zach Brode, Manager of Analytics, Ascend Analytics

Zach Brode leads resource planning, portfolio management, and valuation projects. He also manages the development of PowerSIMM. Zach joined Ascend after completing his M.A. in Economics at the University of British Columbia. At Ascend, Zach works with utility clients to model energy systems in support of capacity planning and resource assessment and valuation. He also has experience with avoided cost analysis and new resource power procurement analysis.

Speakers

Mark Gabriel

President & CEO
United Power
mgabriel@unitedpower.com

Alice Jackson

SVP System Strategy & 
Chief Planning Officer
Xcel Energy
Alice.jackson@xcelenergy.com

Eric Blank

Chairman
Colorado Public Utilities Commission
Eric.blank@state.co.nz

Rob Threlkeld

Director of Global Energy Strategy
General Motors
Rob.threlkeld@gm.com

Amanda Peterson Corio

Global Head of Data Center Energy
Google
acorio@google.com

Vibhu Kaushik

SVP & Global Head of Energy, Utilities, & Storage
Prologis
vkaushik@prologis.com

Chris Taylor

CEO
GridStor
Chris.taylor@gridstor.com

Hagen Lee

CEO
Peregrine Energy Solutions
hlee@peregrineenergysolutions.com

Andrew Waranch

CEO
Spearmint Energy
awaranch@spearmintenergy.com

Michael Rucker

Founder & CEO
Scout Clean Energy
michael@scoutcleanenergy.com

Mark Dyson

Managing Director
RMI
mdyson@rmi.org

Lena Perkins, PhD

Emerging Technologies Manager & Senior Resource Planner
City of Palo Alto
Lena.perkins@cityofpaloalto.org

Shawn Marshall

CEO
Peninsula Clean
Energy
smarshall@peninsula
cleanenergy.com

Hemant Jain

VP Electricity Supply
New York
Power Authority
Hemant.jain@nypa.gov

Scott Mellon

Assistant General
Manager
City of Glendale
smellon@glendaleca.gov

Zakary Liske

Senior Manager of
Power Operations
Silicon Valley
Clean Energy

Jon Powers

CEO
CleanCapital
jpowers@cleancapital.com

Woody Rubin

CDO
AES
Woody.rubin@aes.com

Joshua Rogol

CDO & President
Strata Clean Energy
jrogol@stratacleanenergy.com

Eric Stoutenburg, PhD

Director of Energy Storage
Eolian
Eric.stoutenburg@eolianenergy.com

Johannes Rittershausen

CEO & Co-Founder
Convergent Energy + Power
jrittershausen
@convergentep.com

Michael Enger

Director of Energy &
Market Operations
Austin Energy
Michael.enger@
austinenergy.com

Paul Eory

Manager of Strategy & Planning
Lansing Board of Water & Light
Paul.eory@lbwl.com

Andrea Torres

Senior Portfolio Manager

San Diego Community Power

atorres
@sdcommunitypower.org

Jared Hansen

Director of Resource
Planning
Idaho Power
jhansen@idahopower.com

Wesley Cole, PhD

Senior System Modeler

NREL
Wesley.cole@nrel.gov

Caleb Stephenson

EVP of Commercial Operations
Calpine
Caleb.stephenson@calpine.com

Marco Ferrara, PhD

Co-Founder & SVP Software & Analytics
Form Energy
mferrara@formenergy.com

Chris Eshleman

Director of Energy Analytics & Electric Supply
East Bay Community Energy
ceshleman@ebce.org

Ted James

Head of North America
ACCURE Battery
Intelligence
t.james@accure.net

Ryan Butterfield

Senior Director of
Energy Storage
National Grid Renewables
rbutterfield@national
gridrenewables.com

Andrew Galen

Renewables
Strategist
Nephila Climate
agalen@nephilaclimate.com

Ken-Ichi Hino

Executive Director of
Energy Storage
UBS
Ken-ichi.hino@ubs.com

2022 Attendees:

  • Accelergen
  • AES
  • Algonquin Power
  • Ambient Fuels
  • Ambri
  • Ameren
  • American Clean Power
  • Apex Clean Energy
  • Arevon
  • Available Power
  • Avantus
  • BayWa
  • Better Energies LLC
  • Borrego Solar
  • BrightNight Power
  • B2U Storage Solutions
  • Calpine
  • Candela Renewables
  • Capacity Power Group
  • Capture Advisory LLC
  • Cenergy Power
  • CleanCapital
  • Clean Energy Associates
  • Clean Power Alliance
  • Cloudbreak Energy
  • CoBank
  • Colorado PUC
  • ConnectGen
  • Duke Energy
  • East Point Energy
  • EDF Renewables
  • EDP Renewables
  • Elevate Energy
  • Energy Innovation
  • Equinor
  • ESIG
  • Flatiron Energy
  • Form Energy
  • Grant PUD
  • Greenleaf Power
  • Hecate
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Holy Cross Energy
  • Hyde Renewables
  • Idaho Power
  • Intersect Power
  • Jupiter Power
  • Korsail
  • LBWL
  • Leyline Capital
  • Lightsource BP
  • Masdar
  • MAN Energy Solutions
  • Middle River Power
  • NARUC
  • Nexamp
  • NorthWestern
  • Novis Renewables
  • Ormat
  • Orix Investments
  • Orsted
  • Osiyo Renewables
  • Perfect Power
  • Peregrine Energy Solutions
  • Primergy Solar
  • Prologis
  • Redding Electric Utility
  • Redeux Energy
  • Riverside Public Utilities
  • RKB Energy
  • Rocky Mountain Institute
  • RWE
  • Saft
  • Savion Energy
  • Scout Clean Energy
  • Solarstone
  • Sonoma Clean Power
  • Spearmint Energy
  • Starwood Energy Group
  • Strata Clean Energy
  • Sunfox Capital
  • SVCE
  • Talen Energy
  • Telamon
  • Terra-Gen
  • Tesla
  • Trina Solar
  • Tri-State G&T
  • Turlock Irrigation District
  • UBS
  • United Power
  • Uplight
  • VCV Digital
  • Wartsila
  • Wellhead
  • Wells Fargo
  • Western Resource Advocates
  • X-Elio
  • Xcel Energy