Community Choice Energy Summit

Jan Pepper

PENINSULA CLEAN ENERGY

Edward Randolph

CPUC

Joe Mosca

SAN DIEGO REGIONAL COMMUNITY CHOICE ENERGY AUTHORITY

Vicken Kasarjian

MCE

Geof Syphers

SONOMA CLEAN POWER

Taj Ait-Laoussine

EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY

Jason Anderson

CLEANTECH SAN DIEGO

Rolf Bienert

OPENADR ALLIANCE

Brett Bishop

FRANKLIN ENERGY

Pierre Bull

CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

Jason Caudle

CITY OF LANCASTER

Howard Chang

EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY

Nick Chaset

EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY

Cathy DeFalco

CALIFORNIA CHOICE ENERGY AUTHORITY

Dennis Dyc-O’Neal

MONTEREY BAY COMMUNITY POWER

Dennis Gakunga

CITY OF CHULA VISTA

Jonathan Hart

CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

Chelsea Hasenauer

THE CLIMATE REGISTRY

Woody Hastings

THE CLIMATE CENTER

Cody Hooven

CITY OF SAN DIEGO

Randy S. Howard

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA POWER AGENCY

Helen Kou

BLOOMBERGNEF

Shawn E. Marshall

LEAN ENERGY

Michelle McGinty

CENTER FOR RESOURCE SOLUTIONS

Matthew Marshall

REDWOOD COAST ENERGY AUTHORITY

Abe Powell

SANTA BARBARA BUCKET BRIGADE

Nancy Rader

CALIFORNIA WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION

Clay Sandidge

LONG BEACH COMMUNITY CHOICE ENERGY

John Sarter

CLEAN COALITION

Harry Singh

GOLDMAN SACHS

Hilary Staver

SILICON VALLEY CLEAN ENERGY

Michael Totah

PENINSULA CLEAN ENERGY

Jeremy Waen

PENINSULA CLEAN ENERGY

Kathy Wells

LANCASTER CHOICE ENERGY

V. John White

CENTER FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES (CEERT)

Fred Zelaya

MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP (MUFG)

Bidgely

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As the industry’s first enterprise energy analytics and customer engagement platform provider, Bidgely’s UtilityAI™ SaaS solutions transform utility meter data into business intelligence for optimizing shareholder value, personalizing the customer experience and modernizing the grid. Bidgely’s mission to be a trusted AI partner helps utilities solve daily challenges related to home energy management, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency and new revenue models. With roots in Silicon Valley, the company has raised over $50M in funding, retains 30+ data scientists and brings a passion for AI to utilities serving residential customers around the world. For more information, please visit www.bidgely.com or the Bidgely blog at bidgely.com/blog.

GridX, Inc.

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GridX is a leading provider of Big Data Billing and Data Management solutions to Community Choice Energy providers, retails suppliers and integrated utilities. Our clients include some of the largest IOUs and MOUs and innovative CCAs.

Our core technology consists of Big Data (Interval) Billing, Settlement and Advanced Analytics. Leveraging this technology, we have developed a suite of applications to streamline business operations. This integrated solution set serves as a “CCA-in-a-Box” to enable the successful launch of a CCA as well as ultimately achieving the aspirations of the Community Choice movement.

We call this CCA-in-a-box the GridX Business Operation Support System (BOSS). BOSS includes a full suite of tools that enables management of rate design & development, rate marketing, customer engagement, retail billing, wholesale (shadow) settlement, load forecasting, revenue forecasting, and revenue & margin simulation and optimization.

Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)

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As the nation’s sixth-largest community-owned electric utility, SMUD has been providing low-cost, reliable electricity in an environmentally-responsible way for more than 70 years to Sacramento County (and small adjoining portions of Placer and Yolo Counties).

And as a vertically-integrated utility, SMUD has experience and expertise in all facets of energy supply – from power generation to product and service delivery to customers and everything in between. It’s that experience that makes SMUD the perfect choice for CCAs.

In addition, our values are closely aligned with CCAs in supporting local decision making, product choice, affordable rates, greenhouse gas reduction, energy efficiency and a nonprofit, public power business model. Our Community Energy Services (CES) team offers data management and call center services, wholesale energy services, financial modeling and budget services and start-up services to California CCAs.

River City Bank

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At River City Bank, we believe in doing our part to make California a greener and cleaner place
to live. We also believe it’s essential to support and partner with organizations taking the lead in
driving climate change policy, sustainability practices, and clean energy.

As a culmination of the Bank’s long-term involvement in the clean energy sector, the Bank
established the Clean Energy Division in 2018 under the leadership of Rosa Cucicea.
River City Bank was the first bank to provide credit and banking services to Community Choice
Aggregators (“CCAs”) in California and have actively worked with numerous CCAs since
financing the launch of Marin Clean Energy in 2010.

The Clean Energy Division also provides debt financing to renewable energy projects ranging
from $5 to $50 million. Our project lending team has deep experience working with various
financing structures, project developers, and tax equity investors to successfully finance projects
to completion.

Suntech Power Development America LLC

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Suntech Power Development America is a fully vertically integrated Independent Power Producer (IPP) and one of the 100% subsidiaries of the Suntech Power Japan Group. We have over 2GW of solar power plants operating globally. Our US team is focusing on CCAs that serve their communities with locally generated power. Suntech Power Japan Group strong financial background and worldwide IPP business experience enables us to manage projects from the beginning of early-stage development through commissioning and operation. Our extensive services include site selections, feasibility studies, engineering, construction, and finance. We lead the way to the future of Community Microgrids by changing how project development is executed. You can learn more about us at www.stpdam.com.

CLEAResult

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CLEAResult is the largest company dedicated to providing energy efficiency and demand-side management programs in North America. CLEAResult helps utilities process over 50 million customer applications annually working with a network of over 30,000 contractors across the United States. In 2016 alone, CLEAResult programs helped utilities and their customers save over 4,500 GWh and 54 million therms, resulting in customer energy cost savings of over $530MM.

CLEAResult has offices in Oakland, San Bruno, Los Angeles, and San Diego and an active team of over 100 California staff running over 50 programs – including some of the most innovative programs in the state. CLEAResult provides program design, implementation, technical support, engineering, marketing, outreach, call-center, training, and incentive services to public and investor-owned utilities, local governments, and, directly to customers in California across the commercial, residential, industrial, agricultural, and public sectors.

Enchanted Rock, LLC

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Enchanted Rock provides affordable, long duration backup power to commercial, industrial, and institutional customers by delivering a proven, full-service solution with the cleanest available technology. Enchanted Rock handles the design, construction, commissioning, operations, and maintenance of natural-gas powered generators so utilities can provide their customers with reliable backup power without the expense and challenges that come with maintaining a backup generation system. To learn more about offering electrical resiliency using Enchanted Rock solutions, visit www.EnchantedRock.com or visit us on Twitter @ERock_LLC or LinkedIn.

Innowatts, Inc.

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Innowatts is a leading provider of AMI-enabled predictive analytics and AI-based solutions for utilities, energy retailers and smart energy communities. To date, the Innowatts eUtility™ technology platform has provided nearly 23 million energy consumers and their energy providers with access to lower energy costs and more reliable and personalized energy experience. Innowatts is backed by Energy Impact Partners, Evergy Ventures, Shell Ventures, Iberdrola (Spain), Energy and Environment Investment (Japan) and Veronorte (Columbia).

NextEra Energy Resources

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NextEra Energy Resources is a clean energy leader and is one of the largest wholesale generators of electric power in the U.S.. NextEra Energy Resources is also the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun, a world leader in battery storage, and is driving the development of the green hydrogen economy. The business offers a wide range of clean energy solutions to help businesses and customers across the country meet their emissions reduction goals. www.nexteraenergy.com

Energy Exemplar

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Energy Exemplar is the market leader in the technology of optimization-based energy market simulation. Our software suite, headlined by PLEXOS® and Aurora, is used across every region of the world for a wide range of applications, from short-term analysis to long-term planning studies. It is relied upon by hundreds of organizations worldwide to inform multi-million-dollar decisions. Our people continually think of novel approaches and more realistic simulations that enhance decision making, create market opportunities and enable utilities and regulatory authorities to become smarter, more energy efficient and profitable. Energy Exemplar continues to ‘push the envelope,’ being first-to-market with the latest advances in programming and energy market simulations, as it strives to offer the most comprehensive simulation software to its customer base. For more information visit www.energyexemplar.com

Eolus North America, Inc.

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Eolus North America, Inc. (ENA) is a Nevada company with offices in Reno, NV and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA. ENA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eolus Vind AB (publ) which is publicly traded company on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange.

Eolus Vind is headquartered in Sweden, with offices in Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and the United States. The company has been operating since 1990 as a leader of renewable energy development in the Nordic counties and successfully expanded its business to North America in 2015. Eolus Vind has participated in the establishment of more than 500 wind turbines currently operating in Sweden. ENA has 1,900 MW of utility-scale solar plus storage under development throughout the Western United States.

Our services include development of renewable energy facilities, electricity generation and asset management services for owners of renewable power facilities. The company focuses on the utility-scale solar, utility-scale wind, and energy storage in the United States.

Bioenergy Association of California

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California Wind Energy Association (CALWEA)

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Clean Coalition

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The Clean Coalition is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and a modern grid through technical, policy, and project development expertise. The Clean Coalition drives policy innovation to remove barriers to procurement and interconnection of distributed energy resources (DER) – such as local renewables, advanced inverters, demand response, and energy storage – and we establish market mechanisms that realize the full potential of integrating these solutions. The Clean Coalition also collaborates with utilities and municipalities to create near-term deployment opportunities that prove the technical and financial viability of local renewables and other DER.

Cleantech San Diego

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CRS Center for Resource Solutions

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Center for Resource Solutions (“CRS”) is a California-based NGO with global impact. CRS brings forth expert responses to climate change issues with the speed and effectiveness necessary to provide real-time solutions. Its leadership through collaboration and environmental innovation builds policies and consumer-protection mechanisms in renewable energy, greenhouse gas reductions, and energy efficiency that foster healthy and sustained growth in national and international markets. For more information about CRS’s programs, visit www.resource-solutions.org.

Franklin Energy

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As Director of Contract Services, Brett Bishop works closely with contractors drawing on his years as an HVAC system designer and technician, General Contractor, and Green Building subject matter expert. Recent accomplishments include successfully petitioning the CPUC for the formulation of California’s new Regional Energy Network, the 3C-REN, and designing and implementing programs that focus on the nexus of energy and health. Brett was a panelist for American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s "Hospitals and Healthcare Partnerships," last Nov. He has spent the last year working in the space of decarbonization of energy end uses and designing behind the meter storage strategies that better utilize California’s increasingly renewable grid mix as well as on site renewable generation.

OpenADR Alliance

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The OpenADR Alliance, a nonprofit corporation created to foster the development, adoption and compliance of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) standard, helps utilities manage the growing pool of distributed energy resources (DER), which includes renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and electric vehicle charging. The OpenADR standard supports communications to all DER resources to manage changes in load shape, energy inputs and power characteristics of DER assets. For more information please visit www.openadr.org.

Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI)

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