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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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Erin Vasseur leads business development, delivering regulatory-accepted price forecasts that support investment-grade decisions for developers, investors, and utilities. By applying advanced dispatch simulations to specific customer use cases, Erin enables accurate project valuation in evolving markets. With extensive experience in renewable energy and power, she bridges technical insights with commercial needs to drive clean energy deployment and strategic planning in a rapidly transitioning energy landscape.
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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.
Book MeetingWith recent volatility declines, and as revenue certainty becomes increasingly critical to finance projects, the challenge for storage owners is no longer simply maximizing today’s revenues. The challenge has become building a financeable package of revenues that deliver consistent performance in a variety of market conditions. Operators are responding by pairing AI-powered optimization with sophisticated hedging and commercial strategies that reduce risk while preserving upside opportunities. This session will explore the tools, tradeoffs, and market dynamics shaping the next generation of merchant storage, and how leading market participants are adapting their merchant strategies to unlock higher asset value and compete in today’s evolving power markets.
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