Clean Cities Renewable Power Procurement

Whitney Washington Boles

CONSTELLATION

Mike Borger

REC Solar

Luke Cartin

PARK CITY, UTAH

Matt Cox, Ph.D.

THE GREENLINK GROUP INC.

Alexander Dane

WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE

Mardi Ditze

City of Philadelphia

Bill Eger

City of Alexandria

Nadia El Mallakh

XCEL ENERGY

Paul Faeth

The Cadmus Group

Michael Forrester

CITY OF CINCINNATI

Angie Fyfe

ICLEI-LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR SUSTAINABILITY USA

Danny Grady

CITY OF PORTLAND, OREGON

Mark Hartman, M.B.A., LEED AP

CITY OF PHOENIX

William H. Holmes

K&L Gates

Shubhada Kambli

HARTFORD, CT

Amy Kao

Project Officer

Jonathan Koehn

CITY OF BOULDER

Megan Lorenzen

SALESFORCE

Aaron Lu

CITY OF SAN DIEGO

David McIlhenny

SUNPOWER

Lori Mitchell

San Jose Community Energy Department

Troy Moon

CITY OF PORTLAND, MAINE

Mak Nagle

SPower

Anand Natarajan

CITY OF CLEVELAND

Tyler Poulson

SALT LAKE CITY

Hans Royal

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

Jeffrey Schub

COALITION FOR GREEN CAPITAL

Louis Ting

LADWP

Jerry Tinianow

CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER

Sarah Yeager

CITY OF PITTSBURGH

AEP Energy

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AEP Energy, a competitive supplier of retail electricity and natural gas supply since 2002, serves nearly 430,000 residential, business, and industrial customers in six states and Washington, D.C.

Beyond competitive energy services, AEP Energy partners with businesses across the United States to build smart and successful energy strategies, including behind-the-meter (BTM) services and innovative solutions to reduce energy costs and risks. We provide capital, technical expertise, and market knowledge for a diverse array of BTM systems and technologies, including solar, combined heat and power, energy storage and more. In addition, we develop, own and operate utility-scale wind and solar energy generation assets nationwide.

AEP Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of AEP, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, and is ranked 185 of the Fortune 500.

Ameresco

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Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading independent provider of comprehensive services, energy efficiency, infrastructure upgrades, asset sustainability and renewable energy solutions for businesses and organizations throughout North America and Europe. Ameresco’s sustainability services include upgrades to a facility’s energy infrastructure and the development, construction and operation of renewable energy plants. Ameresco has successfully completed energy saving, environmentally responsible projects with Federal, state and local governments, healthcare and educational institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers. With its corporate headquarters in Framingham, MA, Ameresco has more than 1,000 employees providing local expertise in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit https://www.ameresco.com

The Cadmus Group

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Cadmus is a strategic and technical consultancy compelled to help solve the world's most challenging problems. We assemble outstanding teams of leading experts who work seamlessly across disciplines to help you achieve extraordinary results. From energy, water, and transportation to safety, security, and resilience — together, we are strengthening society and the natural world.

The work we do on behalf of our clients is often the first of its kind, largest of its kind, goals- exceeding, barrier-overcoming, and bar-raising, ensuring we deliver pioneering solutions. We've helped our clients achieve honors for outstanding results from top industry organizations, including the Association of Energy Service Professionals, the National Association of Government Communicators, CDP, and the American Institute of Architects.

This commitment to achievement is the reason Cadmus' expertise is sought by a diverse list of federal, state and local agencies; why most major utilities have engaged our services; and why Fortune 500 companies regularly reach out for our help.

Constellation

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Constellation, an Exelon company, is a leading competitive energy company providing power, natural gas, renewable energy, and energy management products and services for homes and businesses across the continental United States. We provide integrated energy solutions — from electricity and natural gas procurement and renewable energy supply to energy efficiency and distributed energy solutions — that help customers strategically buy, manage and use their energy. Today, approximately 2 million residential, public sector and business customers, including two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies rely on our commitment to innovation, dependability, transparency and service.

For customers looking for an impactful renewable energy solution, Constellation’s Offsite Renewables (CORe) products combine location-specific renewable energy purchases and renewable energy certificates (RECs) with a physical, load-following, energy supply contract. With the CORe+ product, that includes support for the development of new build renewable assets.

EDF Renewables

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EDF Renewable Energy is a leading U.S. independent power producer with more than 25 years of expertise in the renewable industry, covering all range of services from project development, management to operations and maintenance. EDF Renewable Energy specializes in wind and solar photovoltaic with presence in other segments of the renewable energy market: biogas, biomass, hydro, marine energy and storage solutions. The company develops, constructs, operates and manages renewable energy projects throughout the United States for its own accord as well as for third parties. EDF Renewable Energy’s portfolio consists of 4 gigawatts of developed projects with 1.9 gigawatts of installed capacity. EDF Renewable Energy is the U.S. subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles. EDF Energies Nouvelles is the renewable energy arm of the EDF group, the leading electricity company in the world.

Energy Edge Consulting

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Energy Edge Consulting provides customized energy solutions for large commercial, industrial and institutional organizations. Energy Edge provides a full range of services relating to renewable energy strategy development, procurement, energy risk management services, demand response initiatives and ongoing support services.

Energy Edge has supported a variety of organizations in developing and implementing a sustainable energy strategy. This includes evaluating various renewable generation projects, procuring renewable and low carbon power, negotiating PPAs and ensuring these are properly integrated into retail and wholesale power supply arrangements.

Energy Edge has extensive experience with both off-site and behind the meter generation projects. This includes utility scale
solar assets, wind generation, geothermal production, virtual PPAs and back up generation assets.

Energy Edge has locations in California, Texas, Arizona and the United Kingdom.

Engie North America

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ENGIE North America manages a range of energy businesses in the United States and Canada, including clean power generation, cogeneration, and energy storage; retail energy sales; and comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense. Nearly 100 percent of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE is the largest independent power producer and energy efficiency services provider in the world, with operations in 70 countries employing 150,000 people, including 1,000 researchers in 11 R&D centers.

Greenlink

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The Greenlink Group Inc., is a clean energy technology, research and consulting firm, built upon its award-winning modeling tools and research. Greenlink focuses on rapidly advancing clean energy in the smartest, most equitable, and cost-effective ways possible. Greenlink provides the evidence and expert analysis needed to evaluate the most pressing issues faced by today’s energy markets, namely the integration of a wide range of clean energy options, such as energy efficiency in buildings and manufacturing, demand side management, aligning centralized and distributed renewable energy within the current energy system, especially the electric grid, and modernizing these approaches for future applications. Greenlink was founded by PhD scientists with over 100 research publications in energy and environmental public policy and planning; current staff have expanded to former governmental energy officials, data scientists, and economists. Through its combination of of practitioner experience and analytical capacity, Greenlink is able to provide unmatched recommendations on social, environmental, and economic energy questions.

K&L Gates

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K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents. Our delivery of legal services is supported at both the individual office level and through nine firmwide practice areas: corporate and transactional; energy, infrastructure and resources; finance; financial services; intellectual property; labor, employment and workplace safety; litigation and dispute resolution; real estate; and regulatory and policy. Our broad global platform allows us to guide clients through the legal challenges inherent in the ever-changing international landscape. Our clients include leading global corporations in every major industry, capital markets participants, and ambitious middle-market and emerging-growth companies. Our lawyers also serve public-sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations, and individuals. We are leaders in legal issues related to industries critical to the economies of both the developed and developing worlds — technology, manufacturing, financial services, health care, and energy, among many others.

REC Solar, a Duke Energy Renewables Company

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In an evolving and increasingly complex industry, REC Solar and Duke Energy Renewables are creating a smarter energy future, one that is based on risk mitigation and a simplified approach to energy modernization, diversification and resiliency. Consuming power now comes with options that never existed before. With new choices comes the responsibility of energy partners to help navigate this new industry paradigm. Our renewables energy strategy is customer-centric, bringing advanced energy intelligence, operations and ownership to the marketplace for over 100+ years. The nimbleness of an entrepreneurial company like REC Solar combined with the experience and financial heft of a utility leader like Duke, bring better solutions to deliver enduring business value far beyond the cost per watt.

Schneider Electric

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Schneider Electric’s Energy & Sustainability Services helps thousands of companies in more than 100 countries buy energy smarter, use energy more efficiently, and drive sustainable growth.

ESS’ Renewables & Cleantech team is a pioneering global supplier of renewable energy and clean technology products and services—including the New Energy Opportunities (NEO) Network™—for the C&I sector. For more than 15 years, the team has been providing unparalleled experience and expertise on strategic renewable energy procurement. The ESS team has advised on more than 4 GW of new wind and solar capacity and is the recognized global leader in cleantech consulting, serving more clients than any other procurement advisor, worldwide.

Contact us to learn more about how strategic renewable PPAs can accelerate your energy goals.

sPower

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sPower, an AES and AIMCo company, is the largest private owner of operating solar assets in the United States. sPower owns and operates a portfolio of solar and wind assets greater than 1.3 GW and has a development pipeline of more than 10 GW. sPower is owned by a joint venture partnership between The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES), a worldwide energy company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, one of Canada’s largest and most diversified institutional investment fund managers.

Unico Solar Investors

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Unico Solar Investors is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unico Investment Group that develops, owns, and operates solar energy systems for our own real estate portfolio and for third-party clients. Our investments provide long-term, acyclical cash flow by selling clean energy to a diversified mix of electricity consumers that include utilities, commercial and industrial buildings, and educational facilities.

Safari Energy, LLC

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Safari Energy, LLC is the solar partner of choice for commercial and industrial real estate owners, public sector organizations and solar developers seeking competitive financial solutions for their projects. Headquartered in New York City, Safari Energy has helped clients unlock enormous economic value and drive significant energy savings by developing more than 300 solar energy projects from Massachusetts to Hawaii. With extensive interdisciplinary expertise, Safari forms the cornerstone of PPL Corporation’s focus on distributed energy resources and shaping a sustainable future.

CDP

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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.

ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability

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Sierra Club

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The Sierra Club is an organization that believes in the power of people working together to make change happen. As the largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the US, for over 126 years, we’ve helped shape the way people can participate in local, state, and national advocacy and policy work, so that we can better protect the planet and each other. Our three million members and supporters – through the Sierra Club’s resources, personal efforts, and collective action – have helped us make real change in advancing climate solutions, protecting lands, air, water, and wildlife, acting for justice, and getting people outdoors. We still have a lot more change to make, because so much more is possible. We work alongside other local and national groups because we are more powerful together. Join us in making change.

Urban Sustainability Directors Network

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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.