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Carley Dolch is the Managing Director of Energy Risk Solutions, where she leads portfolio management, resource planning, and reliability analysis. Carley brings to Ascend Analytics over 15 years of energy market experience, including optimizing reliability and financial margins, settlements, and bringing to market innovative software analytics that assist companies to best manage increasingly complex market conditions.
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Robert LaFaso leads Ascend Analytics’ Market Intelligence (AscendMI) practice, delivering long-term supply stack, market price, and project economics forecasts that power Ascend’s software suite. Robert's insights guide utilities, developers, and investors in making high-confidence investment and planning decisions. He has led valuation due diligence for multi-gigawatt M&A transactions, including TerraGen’s sale to Masdar and Origis Energy’s sale to Antin Infrastructure Partners.
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Mike Quigley is a Senior Account Manager at Ascend Analytics, where he partners with utilities, developers, IPPs, and financial institutions to support data-driven decisions in power markets. Having worked with leading organizations including GE, ReneSola, Apex Clean Energy, and Clearway Energy, Mike helps his clients navigate pricing volatility, evolving market structures, and project economics by applying market intelligence insights to improve asset performance and manage risk.
Book MeetingWith limited onshore wind resource potential, federal headwinds for offshore wind, and the removal of federal support for green hydrogen production, decarbonizing the overnight in California will become more expensive and challenging than ever. With energy affordability increasingly becoming a political flashpoint, the pressures against meeting SB100 goals and tolerating CARB cap-and-trade prices will grow as well. This presentation will examine California’s policy options for mitigating cost impacts and discuss the impacts on California’s supply evolution.
Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the power industry. The company’s offerings enable decision makers in power supply, procurement, and investment markets to plan, operate, monetize, and manage risk across any energy asset portfolio. From real-time to 30-year horizons, their forecasts and insights are at the foundation of over $50 billion in project financing assessments. Ascend provides energy market stakeholders with the clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.
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