CA Renewable Energy Procurement 2.0 Summit

Nathan Barcic

CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (CPUC)

Seth Baruch

KAISER PERMANENTE

Jeffrey Billinton

CAISO

Aaron Binkley

DIGITAL REALTY

Jon Bonanno

NEW ENERGY NEXUS / CALIFORNIA CLEAN ENERGY FUND

Howard Chang

EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY

Josh Copenhaver

SCE

Karen Douglas

CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION

Andre Duurvoort

JLL

Dian Grueneich

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Barbara Hale

SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (SFPUC)

Frank Harris

CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES ASSOCIATION (CMUA)

Scott Olson

DIRECT ENERGY

Edward Randolph

CPUC

Anne Selting

S&P GLOBAL

Adam Stern

OFFSHORE WIND CALIFORNIA

Bryan Swann

SMUD

Elsa Valay-Paz

SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC

174 Power Global

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174 Power Global corporation is based in Irvine, CA an affiliate company of Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE global 500 firm and among the eight largest business enterprises in South Korea. 174 Power Global, along with our affiliated companies is focused on making solar energy competitive for a cleaner and sustainable future, benefiting all partners that are involved. Possessing knowledge and resources on all sides of the solar industry, we closely work with our partners to create success.

Black & Veatch

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With more than 100 years of service, Black & Veatch has helped clients improve the lives of people in more than 100 countries through consulting, engineering, construction, operations and program management.

Black & Veatch’s Smart Integrated Infrastructure business supports the innovations of utilities and cities by establishing the foundation of all smart functions as we bring together physical infrastructure, communication networks and data analytics to infuse intelligence into systems. As a global leader in Critical Human Infrastructure, our technologies boost sustainability, resiliency, efficiency, economic health and cultivate new system-wide intelligence at utilities and along roadways, in cities and beyond.

Candela Renewables

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Candela Renewables is a utility-scale solar and storage power plant developer headquartered in San Francisco, California and established in July 2018. Our mission is to develop the most reliable, cost effective, financeable and environmentally beneficial solar power projects in the United States. Candela provides the full suite of development services including: siting, interconnecting, permitting, engineering, contracting and financing solar energy projects. Candela’s team members are energy industry veterans who are responsible for the successful development of over 7,500 megawatts, including over 5,000 megawatts in California, of solar and solar plus storage projects with Power Purchase Agreements in the United States over the past 10 years. Candela strives to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy through competitively priced renewable energy and is acutely focused on lowering the cost of solar power. We are technology agnostic, flexible in our approach and well capitalized through our partnership with Macquarie Capital’s Green Investment Group.

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.

Stoel Rives LLP

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Stoel Rives is a leading U.S. corporate and litigation law firm providing high quality services to sophisticated business clients at every stage of their evolution. With 350 attorneys in seven states and Washington, D.C., Stoel Rives is a nationally recognized leader in the energy and natural resources industries. From deals and disputes to compliance and counseling, clients turn to Stoel Rives for their most complex business challenges. Let’s navigate the future together. Learn more at www.stoel.com

Enel Green Power

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Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (EGP-NA) is part of the Renewable Energies division of the Enel Group, a multinational power company that operates in more than 30 countries around the world with an installed capacity of more than 89 GW and that connects more than 61 million customers to more reliable and increasingly sustainable power.

EGP-NA is a leading owner and operator of renewable energy plants in North America with projects in 22 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces that owns and operates over 100 power plants with an installed capacity exceeding 2.5 GW powered by renewable hydropower, wind, geothermal, and solar energy.

EGP-NA is committed to continued investment and growth in North America and through leading commitment to renewables and heritage of technological innovation, the company is at the forefront of a cleaner and more innovative energy future.

CalCCA

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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.

CMUA California Municipal Utilities Association

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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.

Green-e

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Green-e is a program of the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions, and is North America’s leading independent risk assurance and consumer protection program for the purchase and sale of renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions in the retail market. Green-e offers certification and verification services through Green-e Energy, a renewable energy certification program; Green-e Climate, a greenhouse gas emission reduction certification program; Green-e Direct, an energy purchase certification program, and Green-e Marketplace, a program that provides forward-thinking organizations a simple, nationally recognized logo they can use to communicate their renewable energy and climate commitment to their customers and stakeholders. To learn more about Green-e Certified products and programs available in U.S. and Canada and coming soon for some international regions, visit www.green-e.org.

New Energy Nexus

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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.

Power Association of Northern California (PANC)

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Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI)

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Energy Central Power Industry Network

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Energy Central is a platform for electric power industry professionals to connect, learn and share in a collaborative community environment. Supported by leading industry organizations, our mission is to help industry professionals connect and advance knowledge sharing for the benefit of the industry. We help the industry work better. Join Energy Central today and be part of a growing community of over 200,000 registered members.

RTO Insider LLC

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RTO Insider™ is your eyes and ears on the organized electric markets, putting you “inside the room” at PJM Interconnection, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE and SPP. We provide independent, objective coverage and analysis of the wholesale electric industry’s markets and policymaking, saving you time and ensuring you don’t miss the issues most important to your interests.

Features include:

• Coverage of key RTO/ISO committee, subcommittee and task force meetings. We’ll be there when you can’t.
• Coverage of news events impacting the industry throughout the 35 states managed by the RTOs/ISOs.
• Coverage of state and federal regulatory (FERC, EPA) & legislative news affecting RTO/ISO stakeholders.
• Issue Briefs: Concise summaries of major issues (e.g., Order 1000, EPA’s 111(d) rule).

What RTO Insider isn’t: We are not advocates or representatives. You can trust that our coverage will not be slanted to the interests of any member or membership sector.

What RTO Insider is: A source for both the big picture (e.g. analyses of major FERC rulings and RTO stakeholder developments) and the details (why is Manual 28 being changed and what does that mean to me?)