Energy Storage Finance & Investment

ACCURE

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ACCURE is the leading provider of predictive analytics solutions for battery energy storage. We empower companies to reduce risk, enhance performance, and maximize the business value of their energy storage investments. Our advanced AI algorithms simplify the complexity of battery data, enabling safer, more reliable, and more sustainable operations.

With deep expertise in battery technology and data analytics, we deliver unique clarity to energy storage management. Our solutions enable customers worldwide to optimize the performance and safety of their battery systems while minimizing costs and environmental impact. Visit accure.net to learn how you can achieve your energy storage goals.

Banyan Infrastructure

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Banyan Infrastructure is a purpose built project finance software designed to simplify, accelerate, and optimize the financing of sustainable infrastructure across the full life cycle. Built by prior project financiers specifically for banks, investors and developers, the platform helps to replace spreadsheets, email, and pdfs with digitized loans and workflows, automating data aggregation and compliance tracking. This enables streamlined origination, servicing, and securitization of renewable energy loans and investments at higher volume and lower cost. Visit banyaninfrastructure.com for more information.

Bildmore Renewables

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Bildmore is an EnCap Energy Transition Fund (ETF) backed investment platform focused on passive minority equity positions in battery storage, solar, and other energy transition projects that cannot attract traditional renewable “tax equity” financing. The company expects to make 10 to 15 minority investments annually, initially focused on utility-scale projects and sponsors who cannot meet the requirements for tax equity but want to improve their economics beyond only transferring tax credits at a discount. Bildmore’s team is led by energy veteran David Haug, who has three decades of working relationships with the principals at ETF. Together they bring decades of power and energy project experience from a developer’s perspective, the key to fast transaction approval and funding.

Brown & Brown, Risk Solutions

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Brown & Brown is a large account risk management broker that values depth of industry and product knowledge. Operating as a single profit center organized by specialization align our service teams to be structured based on what is best for clients’ business rather than geographic convenience. We go beyond one-off transactions and utilize advanced analytics on every program. By quantifying the effects each decision will have on a company’s risk profile, we take the mystery out of buying insurance. Execution on analytical findings is our true differentiator in mitigating losses and affecting process changes. Our collective success is earned by creating the ideal risk management solution for our clients.

CAC Specialty

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CAC Specialty is a leading specialty insurance broker and advisor that provides expertise and placement capabilities across the spectrum of insurance and capital markets. CAC delivers customized solutions for a wide range of risks, serving both large corporations and small-to-medium enterprises. As an employee-controlled company, we house top industry talent dedicated to meeting our clients’ comprehensive risk management needs.

Our dedicated Tax and Natural Resources teams work together to craft innovative and unique renewable and tax insurance solutions that can help you take a project from early-stage concept and development through completion, across a variety of industries including: Oil & Gas (Upstream, Midstream, Downstream), Power, Utilities and Renewables, Mining and Metals, and Surety.

Customized Energy Solutions

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Established in 1998, Customized Energy Solutions is an energy advisory, software and services company that works closely with clients to navigate the wholesale and retail electricity markets across the United States and globally. CES offers software solutions, back office operational support, and advisory and consulting services focused on asset optimization and energy market participation efficiency. CES is also a third-party asset manager of more than 24,000 MWs of renewable and conventional generation resources across all ISOs in the United States, Ontario, Canada, and Guam. CES empowers clients to achieve their goals by helping them navigate the evolving energy markets, complex market rules, and new energy technologies. To learn more, visit CES-LTD.com or connect with CES on LinkedIn, X, and Facebook.

DNV

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DNV is a leading independent assurance and risk management company. We provide clients with advice and market insights, services, certification, and advanced digital solutions grounded in deep engineering and technical expertise that help them seize opportunities and tackle risks arising from the energy transition. This includes averting a climate crisis and ensuring an equitable, sustainable energy future. Our experts empower customers across the energy value chain to de-risk, decarbonize, maximize value, and safeguard life, property, and the environment. We are also leading by example, with a bold ambition to become a carbon positive company.

Electric Power Engineers

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A leader in grid reliability and resiliency, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe for over 50 years. EPE’s client-centric approach delivers unmatched expertise throughout the project lifecycle, with a platform of comprehensive services and proprietary solutions spanning utility engineering, grid and resource integration, reliability and compliance, digitalization, and grid analytics, as well as innovative software solutions with ENER-i.AI. Committed to designing and developing the grid of the future, EPE’s highly experienced team of detail-oriented consultants are passionate about helping clients address complex engineering and grid modeling challenges, bridge gaps, and gain visibility into the evolving complexities of the grid. Learn more about EPE at epeconsulting.com.

Empact Technologies

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Empact Technologies maximizes the impact of clean energy project tax incentives with the industry’s premier IRA management platform. Empact combines proprietary SaaS technology with professional services to ensure regulatory compliance, secure project construction financing, and protect investors from IRS recapture risk.

Empact works with EPCs to proactively identify and manage IRS regulatory requirements for prevailing wage and apprenticeship compliance issues before they impact tax credits. Collaborating with steel, iron, and major equipment suppliers ensures domestic content tax incentive qualification. Empact also supports developers to confirm energy community and low-income community qualification.

Empact enables successful transactions by reducing investor-required protections. When tax credits are sold, Empact protects the tax credit investor from recapture audit risk by maintaining a comprehensive compliance data repository for the full ITC or PTC tax period.

Empact offers a complete turnkey experience for developers to create community benefits, implement project-level ESG, sustainability, and supplier diversity, while managing project execution risk.

Enverus

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Enverus Power & Renewables brings clean, analytics-ready data into an intuitive platform, empowering you to get straight to higher-value analysis and insights. Whether you are seeking historical data to assess the profitability of new power project opportunities, or you are a seasoned power trader utilizing financial hedging instruments, Enverus supplies essential data and analytics for the power and renewables space.

Fractal EMS

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Fractal EMS is a fully vertical controls platform that includes software, controllers, integration and analytics (with optional monitoring, maintenance and bid optimization). Fractal provides all of the following: 1) controls 2) networking 3) SCADA 4) cybersecurity 5) HMI & historian. Fractal EMS provides full command, control, monitoring and management for a single asset or fleet of assets (located anywhere in the world). Fractal EMS was designed by experienced operators to maximize safety and profitability of storage and hybrid systems. Featuring an in-house team of software developers and cyber security expertise, Fractal EMS has 4 GWh in operation globally and over 13 GWh of awarded projects. Visit the website for more

Fractal Energy Storage Consultants

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Fractal Energy Storage Consultants is a specialized energy storage consulting and engineering firm that provides expert financial analysis, owner’s engineering, procurement, due diligence and advisory services for energy storage and hybrid projects. Fractal has unmatched experience with nearly a thousand utility-scale energy storage engagements since 2013. Fractal provides utilities, developers, EPCs and investors, with unbiased and technology agnostic financial, technical and commercial subject matter expertise, enabling a one stop shop with end-to-end services. Visit the website for more information: www.energystorageconsultants.com

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.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

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From our offices in strategic hubs of commerce, law, and government across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, Morgan Lewis represents clients ranging from established, global Fortune 100 companies to enterprising startups. Our team of more than 2,200 lawyers and legal professionals provides comprehensive corporate, transactional, litigation, and regulatory services in major industries, including energy.

Morgan Lewis stands out among its competitors by offering “one-stop shopping” for clients involved in the energy industry, and our focus on energy enables us to stay ahead of issues and advancements so that we can respond to our clients’ needs with agility and speed. Our multidisciplinary team consists of individuals who are not only accomplished corporate, finance, regulatory, intellectual property, labor and employment, and commercial litigation lawyers, but also seasoned in energy-related matters.

Founded in 1873, we stand on the shoulders of more than 150 years of achievement, but we never rest on our reputation.

National Grid Renewables

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National Grid Renewables, part of the competitive, unregulated National Grid Ventures division of National Grid (NYSE: NGG), develops, owns and operates large-scale renewable energy assets across the United States, including solar, wind and battery storage. As a farmer-friendly and community-focused business, National Grid Renewables develops projects for corporations and utilities that seek to repower America’s electricity grid by reigniting local economies and reinvesting in a sustainable, clean energy future. National Grid Renewables has a robust development pipeline of wind, solar and battery storage projects in various stages of development throughout the United States, as well as geographically diverse operational assets across the country. It supports National Grid’s vision of being at the heart of a clean, fair, and affordable energy future for all. To learn more about National Grid Renewables, visit www.nationalgridrenewables.com.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

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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 26 years can be found on the firm’s website. Its Currents podcast has had more than three 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.

Orennia

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Founded in 2021, Orennia is the leading all-in-one platform for accurate data, predictive analytics and actionable insights across the energy transition. Orennia’s platform is relied upon by the most sophisticated investors and developers to make more efficient capital-allocation decisions and maximize returns in the solar, wind, storage, power, RNG, CCUS, clean fuels and hydrogen sectors. The technology that powers Orennia’s platform delivers an unparalleled experience, distilling information into actionable insights to give clients a competitive edge. 

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international law firm with a particular focus on the technology & media, energy, financial services, and real estate & construction sectors. Recognized as one of the most innovative law firms by Financial Times and one of the top firms for client service by BTI Consulting, Pillsbury and its lawyers are highly regarded for their forward-thinking approach, their enthusiasm for collaborating across disciplines and their authoritative commercial awareness. To learn more, visit pillsburylaw.com.

QE Solar

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QE Solar is a clean energy technology company providing full-service O&M solutions for over 4.5+GW of commercial, industrial and utility-scale renewable energy systems. We specialize in O&M of utility-scale and distributed generation PV, BESS, EV charging and low to high-voltage electrical systems associated with renewable energy projects and provide NERC CIP compliant control center solutions. QE regularly performs third-party PV system audits and verifications, full system commissioning, system repowers, independent engineering, aerial thermography and a variety of other performance related services. Our passion is renewable energy and our sole focus is optimizing our customers’ renewable energy systems through professional-grade PV & BESS O&M, solar engineering and deep analytics, commissioning and an unceasing commitment to technical excellent and safety.

Troutman Pepper

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The energy industry is a key vertical and center of excellence at Troutman Pepper. We have been recognized as a “National Top-Tier” Energy Practice for eight consecutive years and received the 2020 “Law Firm of the Year” distinction for Energy Law in U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” edition, and our renewable energy practice has won nationwide recognition in the Chambers USA and The Legal 500 guides. We provide top legal advice to independent power producers, developers, lenders, utilities, industrial and government clients in energy-related businesses in the U.S. and internationally. We have extensive transactional, financing and regulatory experience in the electric power (including renewable energy), natural gas and water industries. The firm can bring to bear top transactional and regulatory practitioners in order to maximize the value of transactions in the heavily regulated energy space.

Vesper Energy

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Vesper Energy provides innovative solutions to today’s complex energy challenges. Headquartered in the greater Dallas area, Vesper Energy is comprised of professionals who have collectively delivered more than 10 GW of renewable energy projects globally. Today, Vesper Energy’s pipeline includes over 55 renewable energy and energy storage projects with a generating capacity of 17 GW; enough to power more than 2 million homes. Working with their customers, communities, and business partners, Vesper Energy develops, owns, and operates renewable energy projects across the United States with the goal to build a better energy infrastructure.

Ascend Analytics

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Ascend Analytics, an innovative leader at the forefront of the energy transition, offers advanced software and consulting services that capture the evolving and real-time dynamics of energy markets. Ascend Analytics provides its customers with optimized and comprehensive decision analysis that span long-term planning to real-time operations in the electric power supply industry.

Leveraging its proprietary software and more than 20 years of expertise, Ascend bridges fundamental physical system conditions with financial outcomes. The company provides critical and highly precise insights to steward capital investments and manage operations, making it an invaluable and key partner to utilities, developers, financiers, and corporate off-takers in managing the complexities of energy portfolios and markets .

The company’s unique ecosystem – which includes planning, valuation, risk management, and power market operations – is trusted by more than 250 leading-edge businesses and is the platform-of-choice that fuels more than $6 billion in asset investments.

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.

KPMG

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The KPMG Renewable Energy group is a team of experienced professionals dedicated to providing innovative solutions to clients in the renewable energy sector. With a deep understanding of the sector’s complexities and challenges, the group offers a wide range of services, including audit, tax, and advisory services, to help clients navigate the rapidly evolving renewable energy landscape.

Guided by a team of highly experienced professionals, the group is committed to delivering exceptional service and driving growth and success for its clients. The team’s expertise encompasses a huge range from renewable energy, including solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal, to rapidly emerging technologies such as batteries, hydrogen, thermal storage, smart grids, and others – and they collaborate with clients across the entire value chain, from project conception, development and financing to operations and maintenance.

The KPMG Renewable Energy group is dedicated to remaining at the forefront of industry trends and developments, and by harnessing technology and innovation to help clients achieve their objectives and make a positive impact on the environment.

SolaREIT

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SolaREIT™ is an innovative real estate company focused on delivering financing solutions for solar and battery energy storage developers across the country. Solar and energy storage development are capital intensive—SolaREIT partners with developers and landowners to provide a range of financing solutions. The company was founded by clean energy industry veterans with a proven track record in finance, project development, real estate, and community solar. SolaREIT’s practical, streamlined solutions for financing solar and storage land deliver maximum flexibility based on our partners’ individual needs, financial goals, and vision for their land. SolaREIT offers developers three flexible capital solutions: land purchase, lease purchase, and land loans. Since the company’s founding in 2020, SolaREIT has closed on over a hundred projects on land supporting more than $2 billion of solar and battery projects across the US.

JinkoSolar

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JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS) is a leading PV module manufacturer and energy storage system integrator. The company has deployed more than 130 GW in 160 countries globally, including 18 GW in the U.S. EAGLE Modules come from facilities in Malaysia and Florida. EAGLE Storage brings together the best energy storage technology for turnkey hardware and energy storage services. Publicly vetted by trusted industry third-party laboratories and top financial institutions, EAGLE is a trusted choice for U.S. solar and storage projects. As a global leader with strong regional focus, JinkoSolar has more than 300 employees based in San Francisco, CA and Jacksonville, FL offices to provide timely, local service.

Anza Renewables

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Anza is a revolutionary data and technology platform that empowers solar and storage procurement professionals to rapidly evaluate more options, mitigate risk and increase project profits. By aggregating and structuring supplier, product and contract data from more than 95% of the U.S. market, Anza enables buyers to spend more time creating value and less time chasing down data. Anza’s Effective $Watt analytics allows users to move far beyond price comparisons and rapidly compare products based on risk, production and installation cost. With solutions for the utility-scale and distributed generation market, Anza’s vision is to help every buyer rapidly make optimal procurement decisions.

Anza was born from internal tools at Borrego that maximized the financial value of its own projects. In 2021, Anza launched as a standalone procurement application for broader industry use and to further the company’s mission of accelerating the deployment of renewable energy. For more information, visit anzarenewables.com.

Davies

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What we do.
Davies has turned public affairs into an art. We provide thoughtful strategies, compelling messages and precise tactical execution to overcome controversy and crisis.

We have distinguished ourselves with a nearly flawless record of helping our clients win their most challenging battles, successfully reorienting hundreds of issues that seemed lost or burdened by insurmountable odds.

Davies provides issues management, public affairs, and crisis communication support. We specialize in message creation and grassroots programs that motivate individuals to speak out and take action – influencing regulatory, permitting and political challenges.

Who we are.
Davies is the national public affairs firm of choice for clients who need to win high-stakes, defining issues. Our nearly flawless record for project approvals over 30 years speaks for itself — if you want to win, hire Davies.

You may be facing loud mobilized opposition to your plans, as well as hostile elected officials. We overcome these opposing forces by identifying and activating a motivated and educated crowd in favor of your plans, redefining the issue and moving public opinion.

How we think.
At Davies we are on a continuous quest for the best techniques and approaches, from time-tested to novel and emerging. Over the years we’ve developed unique skill-sets and created proprietary tools to aid us in helping our clients win their battles.

We are not planning on giving you the exact recipe for our success, but we’ll be glad to share with you some of our thinking.

BDO USA, P.C.

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At BDO, our purpose is helping people thrive, every day. Together, we are focused on delivering exceptional and sustainable outcomes — for our people, our clients and our communities. Across the U.S., and in over 160 countries through our global organization, BDO professionals provide assurance, tax and advisory services. We offer Clean Tech & Sustainable Finance services to a diverse range of clients across all areas of sustainable investing including how to apply tax credit and incentives to support strategic business objectives – whether seeking financing for innovation, focusing on improving margins or navigating tax credit monetization.

At BDO, we believe that building business sustainably is not just a smart thing to do. It’s the right thing to do.  

FlexGen

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FlexGen designs and integrates energy storage solutions and the software platform that is enabling today’s energy transition.
FlexGen delivers utility-scale storage projects integrated with traditional and renewable power generation globally.
Our clients and partners include the most technically and commercially demanding developers, utilities, EPCs and electric cooperatives in the world.

Ingeteam

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At Ingeteam, we are convinced that there is a different way to generate, transport, store and consume energy more efficiently and sustainably.

We want to consolidate our position as a leader in renewable generation (wind, solar, and hydroelectric), storage, the intelligent transport network, and the efficient and clean consumption of electrical energy via our electric vehicle chargers, converters, and motors for railway, marine, steel, water and for the production of green hydrogen and submersible pump and motors for water.

With a team of over 4,000 people present in 24 countries, we have already delivered 25 GW of solar PV capacity with our solar inverters, over 54 GW of our converters and generators for the wind industry, accumulated 1.6 GWh in electrical storage facilities and are a world leader in the provision of operation and maintenance services at renewable energy plants, with more than 18 GW of maintained capacity.

Stem

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Stem, Inc. (NYSE: STEM) provides solutions that address the challenges of today’s dynamic energy market. By combining advanced energy storage solutions with Athena®, a world-class AI-powered analytics platform, Stem enables customers and partners to optimize energy use by automatically switching between battery power, onsite generation and grid power. Stem’s solutions help enterprise customers benefit from a clean, adaptive energy infrastructure and achieve a wide variety of goals, including expense reduction, resilience, sustainability, environmental and corporate responsibility and innovation. Stem also offers full support for solar partners interested in adding storage to standalone, community or commercial solar projects – both behind and in front of the meter. For more information, visit www.stem.com

CapeZero

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CapeZero is a software-as-a-service company providing financial technology solutions to counterparties evaluating investment, financing, and sale options for clean energy projects. Almost every renewable energy project benefits from receiving a “structured tax credit investment” (i.e. tax equity, transferability, and direct pay). CapeZero’s modeling and deal analysis software provides developers, investors, and advisors with a platform to efficiently navigate structured tax credit investments. CapeZero enables stakeholders to make real-time, profit-optimizing decisions and build a clean energy future together.

GridBeyond

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GridBeyond’s vision is to deliver a global zero carbon future. By leveraging AI, we innovate and collaborate with our customers to create optimal value from energy generation, demand and storage to deliver a zero-carbon future. By bridging the gap between distributed energy resources and electricity markets, GridBeyond’s technology means every connected asset – whether utility-scale renewables generation, battery storage, or industrial load – can be utilized to help maximize opportunities and enhance the grid. By intelligently dispatching flexibility into the right market, at the right time, asset owners and energy consumers unlock new revenues and savings, resilience, and management of price volatility, while supporting the transition to a Net Zero future.