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Mike Huisenga manages Ascend’s energy storage and renewables bid optimization platform, SmartBidder, providing strategic leadership, overseeing customer success and engagement, product strategy and development, and product sales and marketing initiatives. Mike's experience in renewable energy and sustainability spans two decades, including 15 years at WSP, the largest global engineering and environmental professional services firm, where he served as SVP and oversaw the delivery of technical services for renewable energy projects in the US.
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Ferdinand Rapant is Commercial Leader for Eastern Merchant Markets and is focused on directing commercial strategy in the developer and IPP client space. Ferdinand's background includes two decades of energy-market expertise and over 6GW of successful power projects across renewables, storage, thermal space, as well as extensive experience in digital transformation with several of the largest IPP's and regulated utilities in the US.
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Martin Chown is a Senior Energy Analyst on the Ascend Analytics Bid Optimization team, delivering expertise in energy markets, bid optimization techniques, and battery technology to its clients. His role focuses on developing advanced bidding strategies and analyzing electricity market fundamentals to strengthen the competitive positioning of Ascend’s bid optimization solution, SmartBidder.
Book a MeetingThis session will explore the strengths and weaknesses of fully-automated battery optimization systems and when and how humans should intervene to provide guidance and control. Case studies under a variety of recent RTC+B market regimes will emphasize the power of flexible optimization algorithms calibrated by human trader insights.
Balancing contracted revenue floors with merchant upside opportunities in portfolio optimization Competitive bidding for contracted capacity during a utility’s tender process and how developers position for lowest-cost awards Integrating contract strategy into site selection, permitting, and capacity planning during the early-stage, pre-commercialization feasibility process.
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