CCS / Decarbonization Project Development, Finance & Investment - Presented by Infocast

ABOUT THE SUMMIT

 

The Best Gathering of The Entire Value Chain for Investing In, Contracting & Financing CCS and Decarbonization Projects

CCS and CCUS project development and scale-up are at the brink of exploding driven by the tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and by expansion of 45Q, market demand, and technological advances. CCS and CUUS projects continue to heat up as up as new vehicles for large tax equity, institutional, and private equity investment as the energy transition continues. Opportunities abound to leverage these technologies across the energy sector.

However, developing and financing these projects involves sometimes novel complexities. Understanding the new and expanded federal and state policies and incentives, obtaining permits, making equipment and technical choices, negotiating contract issues between emitters and decarbonization developers, and structuring deals to meet the needs of investors, lenders and tax-equity: these must all be tackled to bring a decarbonization project into reality. Only the best informed will succeed in this highly competitive space.

Infocast’s CCS/Decarbonization Project Development, Finance & Investment Summit will bring together project developers, emitters, providers of tax equity, development capital and cash equity to explain the latest developments, showcase critical market information, and provide an “inside view” from the perspectives of all the players in these deals. Let the experts show you how to take maximum advantage of available federal and state programs and incentives and other potential revenue streams and get what you need to make projects actually happen. This is a unique opportunity to network in order to build up the burgeoning US market and strategize to tackle the challenges that lie ahead for this evolving industry. Review our program outline and reserve your place at this event today.

The only event to bring together investors, emitters and developers to provide a deep dive into their needs and perspectives on investing in, contracting and financing for CCS and decarbonization projects. Come here to learn what you’ll need to get actual projects built in this critical space:

  • Learn how your project can take maximum advantage of ALL available federal and state programs and incentives – including those in the IRA And IIJA
  • Get detailed business case information on the latest Direct Air Capture and emissions capture decarbonization projects
  • Hear from emitters on their needs and what they are looking for in CCS/decarbonization projects
  • Understand the critical elements in structuring these projects to attract tax equity, development capital and cash equity financing
  • Receive a detailed briefing from tax equity, cash equity and development capital providers on how they will assess potential investments in this brand-new asset class

Plus! Don’t miss our deep dive Executive Briefing: Tax Credits for Alternative Asset Classes - 45Q & 45Z, providing you with a unique opportunity to understand the new world of post-IRA tax credits and revenue streams as explicated by some of the nation’s leading experts in this field.

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Co-Located with: RNG & SAF Capital Markets Summit
Access both incredible programs with the same ticket!

Network with even more industry leaders as we combine audiences with our RNG & SAF Capital Markets Summit for an unparalleled analysis of the 45Q and 45Z tax credits. Hear the latest analysis of available IRS-issued guidance and the new project structures that are being developed to maximize their value. Visit the event page to learn more.

65

Expert Speakers

Hear from top industry leaders and market stakeholders

17

Content-Packed Sessions

Gain highly-relevant, exclusive insights and updates

Premier Networking

Connect with key decision makers and get deals done

FEATURED SPEAKERS

 

KEYNOTE PRESENTER

Noah Deich
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for the Office of Carbon Management

OFFICE OF FOSSIL ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT (FECM), US DOE

Khalid Abedin
Managing Investment Officer
US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE)

David Burns
Vice President,
Clean Energy

LINDE
NORTH AMERICA

Ryan Crawford, CFA
Managing Partner
CARBON INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS

Cindy A. Crane
Board Chair & CEO
ENCHANT ENERGY CORPORATION

Richard A. Esposito, Ph.D.
Program Manager, Geosciences and Carbon Management - Net Zero Technologies
SOUTHERN COMPANY

Luisa Fuentes
Managing Director, Head of Energy Transition and Sustainable Finance, US
CIBC

Aaron Hood
Executive Vice President & CFO
SUMMIT CARBON SOLUTIONS

Michael Hopkins
CEO
BAKKEN ENERGY

Matthew Kittell
Director
SOCIETE GENERALE

M. Jason Lanclos, P.E.
Director, Energy Division
LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Brent Lewis
CEO and Co-Founder
CARBON AMERICA

Bret Logue
CEO
ELYSIAN CARBON MANAGEMENT

Nick Noppinger
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
WOLF CARBON SOLUTIONS US

Chris Otte
Managing Director
CIBC

Mark Plamondon
Executive Director
ALBERTA'S INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND ASSOCIATION

Ashleigh Ross
Vice President, Strategic Engagements & Policy
CARBON AMERICA

Jenny Speck
Senior Manager of Tax and Regulatory Compliance
NAVIGATOR CO2

Alex Tiller
CEO
CARBONVERT INC.

HEAR FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS & EXPERTS

 

  • Akin
  • Alberta's Industrial Heartland Association
  • Allen & Overy
  • Baker Botts
  • Bakken Energy
  • Bank of America
  • Battelle Memorial Institute
  • CAC Specialty
  • Capital Power
  • Carbon America
  • Carbon Infrastructure Partners
  • Carbonvert Inc.
  • CIBC
  • Climeworks
  • CohnReznick Capital
  • Deloitte
  • Elysian Carbon Management
  • Enchant Energy Corporation
  • Euclid Transactional
  • EY
  • Foley
  • Foss & Company
  • Frontier Carbon Solutions
  • GE Energy Financial Services
  • Global Thermostat
  • Heirloom
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Linde North America
  • Lockton
  • Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
  • Milestone Carbon, LLC
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Navigator CO2
  • OCGI Climate Investments
  • Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management (FECM), US DOE
  • Remora
  • Societe Generale
  • Southern Company
  • Summit Carbon Solutions
  • The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • US Department of Energy (DOE)
  • Verdox
  • Vitol
  • Warwick Carbon Solutions Development Company
  • Wells Fargo
  • White & Case LLP
  • Williams
  • Wilson Sonsini
  • Winston & Strawn
  • Wolf Carbon Solutions US

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

 

  • CCS & CCUS Project Developers
  • CO 2 and Carbon Transportation Technology Developers
  • IPPs, Refineries, and Industrial Facilities
  • Owner/Operators and Managers of Oil & Gas Fields, Gas Storage Facilities and Pipelines
  • Clean Energy Project Developers
  • Tax Equity, Venture/Development Capital,
    and Debt Equity Providers
  • Energy Majors
  • Carbon Capture Equipment Manufacturers
  • Hydrogen Producers
  • EPC’s
  • Local, State and Federal Regulators and Agencies
  • Lawyers
  • Analysts
  • Engineering Firms
  • Consultants

PAST PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

 

  • 8 Rivers Capital, LLC
  • Allen & Overy
  • Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
  • American Hydrogen, LLC
  • Baker Botts
  • Bakken Energy
  • Black & Veatch
  • Bracewell
  • CAC Specialty
  • Capital Power
  • Carbon America
  • Carbon Infrastructure Partners
  • Carbonvert Inc.
  • Center for Houston’s Future
  • CIBC
  • Clean Air Task Force
  • Clean Energy Systems
  • CohnReznick Capital
  • Dastur Energy
  • Deloitte Tax
  • Dow
  • Elysian Ventures
  • Enchant Energy
  • EnLink Midstream
  • Euclid Transactional, LLC
  • ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions
  • Foley & Lardner
  • Foss & Company
  • GE Energy Financial Services
  • Global CCS Institute
  • Great Plains Institute
  • Illinois Clean Fuels
  • Kansas Geological Survey (KGS)
  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Louisiana Economic Development
  • Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.
  • Milestone Carbon
  • Navigator CO2 Ventures
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
  • OGCI Climate Investments LLP
  • Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, a subsidiary of Occidental
  • Rusheen Capital Management, LLC
  • Sidley Austin
  • Southern Company
  • Stanford University
  • Summit Carbon Solutions
  • Svante, Inc.
  • University of Kentucky College of Engineering
  • University of Wyoming
  • US Department of Energy (DOE)
  • Vinson & Elkins
  • Wells Fargo
  • White & Case
  • Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  • World Resources Institute (WRI)

2022 RECAP

 

 

VENUE

 

Hilton Houston Post Oak by the Galleria
2001 Post Oak Blvd
Houston, TX 77056
Phone: (713) 961-9300


Room Rate: $169
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Cutoff Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Group Name: Infocast's Co-Located CCS/Decarbonization and RNF & SAF

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Foley & Lardner

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Foley & Lardner LLP looks beyond the law to focus on the evolving demands facing its clients and their industries. With over 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices across the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia, Foley approaches client service by understanding client priorities, objectives, and challenges. Foley’s Energy Industry Team helps clients address business and legal concerns to keep traditional and renewable source projects on track — from due diligence, negotiation, and regulatory approval through closing. We have a long history of successfully managing renewable and alternative energy projects and financings involving fuel sources such as onshore and offshore wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, biomass, ethanol and biodiesel. Foley also has an accomplished history in addressing the litigation and transactional needs of clients in the oil and gas sector, including independents, public companies and individual mineral owners. We counsel clients on issues concerning leasehold operations, royalty and title disputes, farmouts, right-of-ways and gas purchase agreements. (www.foley.com/energy/)

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has one of the world’s leading project finance and renewable energy practices. We represent developers, lenders, equity investors, manufacturers, technology companies and other sector participants in a broad array of energy and infrastructure projects, with a focus on the development, financing, operation, acquisition and disposition of renewable energy projects and renewable energy companies.

Our team has significant experience across all renewable energy technologies, including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, biofuel and hydroelectric projects and over the past year we have been lead counsel on the three largest renewable energy projects financed in the United States.

Allen & Overy

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Allen & Overy is a global law firm that helps the world’s leading businesses to grow, innovate and thrive. For almost a century, we have built a reputation for our commitment to think ahead and bring original solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and commercial challenges.

At a time of significant turbulence in the business world, we are determined to help our clients embrace change, confidently expand into new markets and keep on top of ever-more complicated regulatory frameworks.

To do this, we will harness our global strength and local knowledge. We will drive towards our vision to become the world’s most innovative law firm. And we will continue to create an environment where the brightest minds can flourish.

Baker Botts

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Baker Botts is a globally respected law firm with 725 lawyers and 14 international offices. We are driven by the highest ethical and professional standards. This professionalism, combined with industry knowledge and insights and our understanding of the law, helps us to deliver effective, innovative solutions for our clients.

For more than 175 years, Baker Botts has delivered results-oriented services, establishing us as a leading law firm. Our reputation is complemented by our leadership in government, the judiciary and our communities. Regardless of size, sector or jurisdiction of a client, our commitment is to help achieve their business objectives.

CAC Specialty

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With a knowledge-driven approach informed by industry data and decades of honed instinct, CAC Specialty brings an innovative vision to insurance broking to solve your risk challenges – from the simple to the previously unsolvable. CAC Specialty is an integrated specialty insurance brokerage and investment banking business focused on providing subject matter expertise and placement capabilities across the spectrum of insurance and alternative capital markets.

CAC Specialty provides a cohesive team across all disciplines to help you take a project from early-stage concept and development through completion. CAC Specialty’s Tax Insurance team is composed of tax attorneys who combine their technical expertise, industry experience, and business acumen to craft innovative and unique renewable energy tax insurance solutions. CAC Natural Resources has a strong team with a proven reputation for exemplary client service within our industry verticals: Oil & Gas (Upstream, Midstream, Downstream), Power, Utilities and Renewables, Mining and Metals, and Surety.

CohnReznick Capital

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At CohnReznick Capital our team creates unprecedented firsts, providing investment banking services to the sustainability sector. Since 2010, CohnReznick Capital has executed more than 85 project and corporate financings for renewable energy assets valued at more than $11 billion in aggregate. As the #1 ranked Renewable Energy Financial Adviser by IJ Global Magazine, we deliver exceptional service for financial institutions, infrastructure funds, strategic participants (IPPs and utilities), and leading global clean energy developers. Our team of experts help our clients breakthrough the dynamic and evolving sustainability sector by simplifying project finance, M&A, capital raising and special situations. To learn more visit www.cohnreznickcapital.com, follow @CR_Capital on twitter, and connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook & Instagram.

Deloitte

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DELOITTE’S M&A practice provides, comprehensive and strategically focused tax, accounting and advisory services to both financial and corporate buyers. With a global network of over 4,000 M&A specialists, clients have access to experienced professionals in all forms of acquisitions, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives, and post transaction and integration activities. Our multi-disciplinary approach teams top-flight M&A professionals, industry specialists and technical experts to provide fact-based answers and independent advice geared to helping clients minimize risk and maximize returns.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

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Chadbourne & Parke and Norton Rose Fulbright merged on June 30 to make a combined firm with 4,000 lawyers in 59 offices in 33 countries, including 400 working in the power sector of whom close to a 100 are in the United States.  The prestigious Chambers directory has consistently ranked the Chadbourne project finance team at the top of the US renewable energy market based on year-round interviewing of corporate law departments and peers at other firms.  The group did $53.5 billion in financings in the last two years.   Approximately 60% of the work of the group in each of the last 11 years has been in renewable energy. The group has worked on projects in more than 80 countries.

OCGI Climate Investments

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Climate Investments (CI) is an independently managed private markets investor focused on capital-efficient industrial decarbonization. The firm seeks to accelerate greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction at scale by investing and collaborating widely to maximize the global implementation and impact of low-carbon solutions. CI provides early stage to growth capital and supports its portfolio across its business lifecycle, ensuring that the companies deliver both GHG impact and financial success.

The firm has made over 30 investments across a range of GHG-intensive sectors: energy, industry, built environments and transportation. CI’s portfolio companies offer solutions that avoid, reduce, recycle or store methane or carbon dioxide. The firm sets 2030 and 2050 GHG reduction targets against which it reports annually, and transparently. The firm has also been instrumental in developing open-source GHG emissions impact estimation methodology to encourage adoption of a common measurement framework for investors.

Climate Investments is an Oil & Gas Climate Initiative company whose 12 member companies have invested in the firm’s funds.

Orennia

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Orennia’s all-in-one platform helps capital allocators make the right decisions by providing them with the most valuable energy transition insights on the market. Access our reliable data, layered with proprietary analytics, compiled by a dedicated team with expertise in the power and renewables, decarbonization and energy transition spaces. Identify investment opportunities, generate higher returns and gain an advantage over your competitors.

White & Case LLP

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White & Case is a leading global law firm with 2,464 lawyers in 45 offices across 31 countries. Among the first US-based law firms to establish a truly global presence, we provide counsel and representation in virtually every area of law that affects cross-border business. Our clients value both the breadth of our global network and the depth of our US, English and local law capabilities in each of our regions and rely on us for their complex cross-border transactions, as well as their representation in arbitration and litigation proceedings. To learn more about the Firm, our work on behalf of clients, and points of view from around the world please take a look at our website at www.whitecase.com.

Euclid Transactional

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Euclid Transactional is a market-leading firm specializing in transactional insurance underwriting and claims handling. The firm provides underwriting services for representations and warranties, tax, contingent liability, and other transactional insurance products. We seek to provide best-in-class service for clients, lawyers, and brokers on deal time and with the commercial priorities of our partners in mind.

Euclid Transactional has underwritten over 5,000 policies and insured more than $4.0 trillion in total deal volume — among the most in the industry.

Our claims team — the industry’s largest dedicated team — leverages deep experience on both the underwriting and claims side to drive fair resolutions. Backed by the financial security of our highly-rated insurance carrier partners, we have made over $523 million in claims payments.

With offices New York, London, Toronto, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Chicago, we cover the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with leadership by industry veterans.

Foss & Company, Inc.

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Founded in 1983, Foss & Company is a national tax equity investor and fund sponsor that has deployed nearly $8 billion in tax equity on behalf of insurance, banking, and other large corporate clients into tax credit enhanced transactions including historic rehabilitation projects, renewable energy and advanced energy production facilities. Foss & Company is a full-service advisor with proven expertise navigating the world of tax equity investments. For additional information, visit www.fossandco.com.

Latham & Watkins

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Latham & Watkins delivers innovative solutions to complex legal and business challenges around the world. From a global platform, Latham lawyers advise leading multinationals, boundary-pushing start-ups, and the investors and financial institutions that fuel them. The firm helps clients navigate market-shaping transactions, high-stakes litigation and trials, and sophisticated regulatory matters. Latham is one of the world’s largest providers of pro bono services, steadfastly supports initiatives designed to advance diversity within the firm and the legal profession, and is committed to exploring and promoting environmental sustainability.

Lockton Companies

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Lockton is a global insurance brokerage that helps clients mitigate risk through strategic advisory and partnership. What makes Lockton stand apart is also what makes us better: independence. Lockton’s private ownership empowers its 9,500+ Associates doing business in over 135 countries to focus solely on clients’ risk, insurance and people needs. With expertise that reaches around the globe, Lockton delivers the deep understanding needed to accomplish remarkable results.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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Wilson Sonsini is the firm of choice for companies, investors, and lenders seeking to structure, negotiate, and close groundbreaking transactions in the new energy economy and emerging climate solutions sector. As the newest, nimblest, and most focused projects law practice in the United States, we dedicate ourselves to a single goal: advancing what’s next in the energy industry and decarbonization technologies across economic sectors. Unlike other major law firms, our mission and resources are focused on advancing solutions to build the clean energy economy and address climate change, not fighting against the reality that all major economic sectors need to evolve, decarbonize, and be more efficient. We recognize the imperative—and the opportunities—presented by climate change and want to assist the innovators that will make a decarbonized future cheaper, more transparent, more equitable, and easier to use.

Winston & Strawn, LLP

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Winston & Strawn LLP is a global law firm with 900+ attorneys across 16 offices in Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. Additionally, the firm has significant resources devoted to clients and matters in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The exceptional depth and geographic reach of our resources enable the firm to manage virtually every type of business-related legal issue. We serve the needs of enterprises of all types and sizes, in both the private and the public sectors. We understand that clients are looking for value beyond legal talent. We take time to learn about our clients’ organizations and their business objectives. And we leverage technology and collaborate seamlessly to respond quickly and effectively to our clients’ needs.

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.

Fagen, Inc.

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With vision and commitment unsurpassed in the industrial construction field, Fagen, Inc. has evolved from what in 1988 was a small agricultural contractor to what today has become a nationally recognized employee owned construction powerhouse. The company’s standard for quality, safety, and service has led Fagen, Inc. to be consistently listed in the Top 400 in ENR’s largest contractors in the United States. Fagen, Inc. continues to grow and diversify, creating a growing presence in the construction of wind farms, solar farms, and renewable fuels. Specializing in providing full EPC wraps to its client base, the company self performs civil, structural, siding, insulation, millwright, piping, instrumentation, and electrical. Striving to be the construction company most admired by our customers for our people, partnerships, performance and finished product, Fagen, Inc. is ultimately building a better world for tomorrow.

Kirkland & Ellis

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Kirkland & Ellis is a global law firm with 2,500 attorneys representing clients in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions, restructuring and tax, litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, and intellectual property matters. The Firm has 14 offices around the world: Houston, Dallas, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.

EIC (Energy Industries Council)

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Low Carbon Fuels Coalition

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SAF + Consortium

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