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Community solar continues to gain momentum— with 410 MW installed in 2017, double the 2016 rate. Yet, the market is still evolving and many challenges remain to be tackled for this market segment to fully achieve its potential.

At Infocast’s Community Solar 2.0, solar developers, customer aggregation firms, retail energy suppliers, utilities, the finance community and other industry players will gather to dive into the business of developing and financing third-party community solar. It will build on the industry’s early experience and look at opportunities for industry players to more successfully serve the market. It will explore how industry players can more efficiently bring product to market and what can be done to create a more efficient deployment of capital.

The conference is all about the business of taking community solar to the next level and will provide a timely venue for the industry to advance this process.

Agenda Highlights:

  • Identify the top community solar markets
  • Discuss what kind of Community Solar subscription terms are making it into the marketplace
  • Hear about utilities’ plans and programs for third-party community solar projects
  • Learn about tax equity, lender and long-term investor’s requirements on financing community solar
  • Access innovative innovative community solar project case studies
Featured Supporting Organization

2018 Featured Speakers

Eric Blank
President & Co-Founder
COMMUNITY ENERGY SOLAR

Jeff Cramer
Executive Director
COALITION FOR COMMUNITY SOLAR ACCESS

Jesse Grossman
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
SOLTAGE, LLC

Joe Henri
Director, Sales and New Market Development
FOREFRONT POWER

Safiyyah Khan
Director, Product Marketing
BLUEWAVE SOLAR

Shaun C. Laughlin
Head of US Strategic Development
STANDARD SOLAR, INC.

Joe Ritter
Senior Vice President, Business Development
SEMINOLE FINANCIAL SERVICES

Craig Robb
Executive Vice President, Managing Director
ZIONS ENERGY LINK

Eugene Shlossberg
Director, Alternative Energy Finance
CAPITAL ONE, N.A.

Daniel B. Smies
Managing Director of Business Development & Strategy
AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER

Scott Vogt
Vice President of Energy Acquisition
ComED

Richard E. Walsh
Managing Partner, Business Development
MADISON ENERGY INVESTMENTS

Participating Organizations

  • American Electric Power
  • Ampion
  • Arcadia Power
  • BlueWave Solar
  • Capital One, N.A.
  • Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA)
  • Clean Choice Energy
  • ComEd
  • Community Energy, Inc.
  • Coppertree Energy
  • Dimension Renewable Energy
  • Energetic Insurance
  • Forefront Power
  • GAF
  • Joules Assets
  • MC Squared Energy Systems, LLC
  • Nautilus Solar
  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • Pepco Holdings, an Exelon Company
  • Seminole Financial Services
  • Solstice
  • Soltage
  • Standard Solar, Inc.
  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • Summit Ridge Energy
  • Syncarpha Capital
  • Think Energy by Engie
  • Vote Solar
  • WGL Energy
  • Zions Energy Link

2018 Sponsors

 
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Eric Blank

COMMUNITY ENERGY SOLAR

Jeff Cramer

COALITION FOR COMMUNITY SOLAR ACCESS

Jesse Grossman

SOLTAGE, LLC

Joe Henri

FOREFRONT POWER

Safiyyah Khan

BLUEWAVE SOLAR

Shaun C. Laughlin

STANDARD SOLAR, INC.

Joe Ritter

SEMINOLE FINANCIAL SERVICES

Craig Robb

ZIONS ENERGY LINK

Eugene Shlossberg

CAPITAL ONE, N.A.

Daniel B. Smies

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER

Scott Vogt

ComED

Richard E. Walsh

MADISON ENERGY INVESTMENTS

Ampion

Website

Ampion provides Customer Acquisition, Customer Management, and Asset Management services for community solar providers across North America. The company operates under a “Software and Service” business model, deploying and operating its software platform on behalf of its clients.
The Ampion platform has extensive operational capability in the community solar market. It is a tightly integrated customer information, billing and payment, and performance monitoring system. Cloud-based and configurable, Ampion’s platform delivers a range of functions necessary to manage both assets and customers, including data acquisition, production reporting, payment processing, customer service, and energy allocation.
Ampion’s platform consists of three white-labeled, cloud-based interfaces, each customized to meet the needs of its clients, their subscribers, and their prospects. The platform supports all energy models and providers, managing assets while supplying the transparency and agency needed to optimize energy portfolios while maximizing revenue.

BlueWave Solar

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BlueWave Solar developed a platform to make it easier for households & businesses to go solar without an installation – perfect for renters! Plus, homeowners in Massachusetts can go “AllBlue” by adding Community Solar to their home solar installations.

BlueWave Solar provides Community Solar subscriptions from our own projects and provide Community Solar customer management for other developers as our clients.

BlueWave works with home solar installers to provide accessible financing options so that owning your own solar system, or solar + storage system, becomes not only feasible but profitable.

CleanChoice Energy

Website

CleanChoice Energy is a leading renewable energy company empowering residential and commercial customers to reduce emissions and support clean energy through 100 percent renewable electricity. CleanChoice Energy’s mission is to make clean energy accessible for everybody. CleanChoice Energy supplies only clean renewable energy to customers, operating in eight states and the District of Columbia, bringing cleaner air closer to home. The company is a founding member of the Coalition for Community Solar Access, recently passed $1.3 million in total corporate donations to environmental and social impact organizations, and has been awarded the highest level of B Corp certification. For more information or to become a customer, visit: www.CleanChoiceEnergy.com

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

Website

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm and powerhouse in the project finance market. Its projects group did $211 billion in 448 significant transactions in the last five years. It works in some capacity for most of the major developers who are active in the US market. It is also a prominent thought leader. Its Project Finance NewsWire goes to more than 81,000 people. Issues back 27 years can be found on the firm’s website. Its Currents podcast has had more than 3.2 million downloads in five years. Its periodic live podcasts on topical subjects draw 2,000 to 6,000 people for the live sessions and thousands of downloads for the recordings.

Wilson Sonsini

Website

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.

Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA)

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The Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA) is a business-led trade organization that works to expand access to clean, local affordable energy nationwide through community solar. Our mission is to empower energy consumers large and small by increasing their access to affordable, reliable clean energy, maximize existing opportunities and support opening new markets for community solar. By creating opportunities for all Americans to access solar, whether or not they put it on their own roof, CCSA will work to make solar available to the vast majority of consumers who do not have that option today.

Energy Acuity

Website

Energy Acuity is the leading provider of energy industry and market intelligence. We strive to offer the most up-to-date and timely information on the power generation and infrastructure technology sectors, ensuring that subscribers have everything they need to identify opportunities and make educated business decisions. Find out how you can streamline your research and business development efforts with one of our three online platforms.

Mercom Capital Group

Website

Navigant

Website

Navigant Research is a market research and consulting team that provides in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team’s research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research and demand assessment, and deep examination of technology trends to provide a comprehensive view of these industry sectors.

Renewables Now

Website

RenewablesNow.com is а one-stop-shop for business news and market intelligence for the global renewable energy industry.

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