Energy Storage Finance & Investment - Presented by Infocast

June 17 - 19, 2024
California

Today’s Best Thinking About Maximizing the Value of the New IRA Incentives for Storage Projects

In structuring and financing energy storage, everything has changed. The enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and its Storage ITC, is projected to drive the development and financing of up to 120 GW of grid-scale storage over the next 10 years. Forecasts also suggest that it will also reduce financing costs for a tremendous additional amount of behind-the-meter storage developed on behalf of corporate, residential and public entities.

All of this, however, requires new development and structuring strategies to capitalize on the tremendous opportunities this incentive regime creates for standalone storage, long-duration storage, and BOT projects. It’s a whole new ballgame—requiring innovative approaches—when developing projects for utilities, munis, CCAs or other public power entities. And fully realizing the financial benefits of IRA incentives to deliver the most profitable, lowest cost storage projects requires successfully leaping a number of formidable hurdles: projects must meet domestic content requirements despite supply shortages, negotiate the vagaries of individual ISO/RTO interconnection processes, understand the unique aspects of each power market, and attract tax equity investors with projects structured to address their risk appetites and concerns in the new era.

Energy Storage Finance & Investment will bring storage developers together with leading tax equity investors, lenders, tax advisors, market analysts and offtakers to develop and discuss the best new thinking on developing and obtaining financing for energy storage projects. They will present the latest information on how to structure standalone FTM, BTM and longer-duration projects to capture the Storage ITC; reduce supply chain cost risk while meeting domestic content requirements; assess the potential revenue streams and interconnection pitfalls in ISO, RTO and bilateral markets; and how the IRA is changing project valuations and exit strategies. Beyond all this, successful storage finance and investment now needs to take into account the ongoing storage boom in ERCOT, the rise of storage as part of trading operations, the demands by corporate offtakers to source clean energy 24/7, and the emergence of longer duration storage technologies.

Attend Energy Storage Finance & Investment to network with the key developers, financiers and investors driving new strategies and structures to capitalize on the IRA and today’s storage business environment!.

2023 FEATURED SPEAKERS

 

Ali Amirali
Senior Vice President
LOTUS INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS

Jack Cargas
Managing Director, Renewable Energy Finance
BANK OF AMERICA

Carol Couch
Senior Vice President & Chief Supply Chain and Manufacturing Officer
FLUENCE

Matt Cousins
Director of Origination
EAST POINT ENERGY

Eric De Caluwé
Managing Director, Energy Storage, Hydrogen, and Generation
ENGIE NORTH AMERICA INC.

Jacqueline DeRosa
Vice President, Energy Storage Systems
AMERESCO

Dan DeSnyder
Vice President, Capital Markets
SUNNOVA ENERGY CORPORATION

Mark Frigo
Vice President, Energy Storage
NEXAMP

Nitish Garg
Director of Procurement
AVANTUS

Jonathan M. Gross
Director, Renewable Energy
MONARCH PRIVATE CAPITAL

Leng Lee
Co-Founder
ATHEVA

Chris McKissack
CEO
GLIDEPATH

Randolph Mann
President
ESVOLTA

Hugh McDermott
Senior Vice President, Business Development
ESS INC.

Daniel Nelson
External Tax Contractor
AVANTUS

Michael Slattery
Chief Financial Officer
AGILITAS ENERGY

Tracy Stoddard
Vice President, Business Development – North America
ACCIONA ENEGY

Curtis VanWalleghem
CEO
HYDROSTOR

Elizabeth Waters
Managing Director
MUFG – PROJECT FINANCE, AMERRICAS

Gabe Wapner
Vice President, Business Development
HECATE GRID

ATTENDED BY INDUSTRY LEADERS & EXPERTS

 

  • Acciona Energy, North America
  • Agilitas Energy
  • Ameresco
  • Atheva
  • Avantus
  • Bank of America
  • BDO
  • BloombergNEF
  • Both Supply & Demand LLC
  • Clean Power Alliance (CPA)
  • CoBank
  • Crux Climate, Inc.
  • Davies
  • East Point Energy
  • EnCap Energy Transition
  • Enel North America
  • Energy Vault
  • ENGIE North America Inc.
  • Enverus
  • ESS Inc.
  • esVolta
  • Fluence
  • Fractal EMS Inc.
  • Fractal Energy Storage Consultants
  • GE Energy Financial Services
  • Glidepath
  • Gotion
  • Greenprint Capital Solutions
  • GridStor, LLC
  • Hecate Grid
  • Hydrostor
  • ibV Energy Partners
  • Invinity Energy Systems
  • JP Morgan
  • KeyBanc Capital Markets
  • Lotus Infrastructure Partners
  • Luminate
  • Mission Clean Energy
  • Monarch Private Capital
  • MUFG – Project Finance, Americas
  • Nexamp
  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • Orennia
  • Orrick
  • Pine Gate Renewables, LLC
  • Q CELLS USA Corp.
  • Rabobank
  • REV Renewables
  • Segue Sustainable Investments
  • Seminole Financial Services
  • Sunnova Energy Corporation
  • Starwood Energy Group Global, Inc.
  • Swell Energy
  • Troutman Pepper
  • Tyba Energy
  • Wells Fargo
  • Zanonenergy

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

 

  • Renewable and Storage Developers
  • Regulators and Policymakers
  • Utilities
  • Public Power
  • CCAs
  • ISOs/RTOs
  • Financiers
  • Attorneys
  • Consultants
  • Engineers and EPCs
  • Battery and Equipment Vendors
  • Corporate End Users

PAST PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

 

Renewable & Storage Developers:

  • 174 Power Global
  • Acciona Energy
  • Ameresco
  • Apex Clean Energy
  • Avantus
  • Baywa RE
  • Brookfield Asset Management
  • Clean Horizon Americas
  • Clearway Energy
  • E.ON Climate & Renewables
  • EDF Renewables
  • Enel North America
  • Enera Power
  • ENGIE Storage
  • ESS Inc
  • esVolta
  • Hecate Energy
  • Invenergy LLC
  • Jupiter Power
  • juwi Inc.
  • Kinect Energy
  • MAP Energy
  • MegaWatt Storage Farms
  • NextEra Energy Resources
  • Origis Energy
  • Recurrent Energy
  • Renewable Energy Aggregators
  • Saturn Power Inc.
  • Sonnen
  • Southern Power Company
  • SunPower
  • Sunrun
  • Tenaska
  • Urban Grid Solar Projects, LLC
  • Wärtsilä Energy Storage

Financiers:

  • Alberta Investment Management
  • Corporation
  • Ares Management
  • Chevron Technology Ventures
  • CIT Bank
  • CleanCapital
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Emerging Markets Capital
  • Generate Capital
  • Impax Asset Management
  • ING Capital LLC
  • Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.
  • MMA Energy Capital
  • MUFG
  • MVP Capital
  • NewCap Partners, Inc.
  • NextPower Capital
  • Prudential Private Capital

Financiers:

  • Rabobank
  • Siemens Financial Services
  • Spinnaker Capital
  • Starwood
  • Sustainable Capital Finance
  • Total Ventures
  • U.S. Bank Community Development
  • Corporation
  • WAPA
  • Wells Fargo Bank

Utilities, Public Power & CCAs:

  • Alameda Municipal Power
  • Avista Utilities
  • Con Edison
  • East Bay Community Energy
  • Exelon
  • Hawaiian Electric
  • ITC Holdings
  • Local Clean Energy Alliance
  • Marin Clean Energy (MCE)
  • National Grid
  • New Hampshire Electric Cooperative,
  • Inc.
  • Peninsula Clean Energy
  • PG&E
  • Renewable Sonoma
  • Roseville Electric
  • SCE
  • SDG&E
  • Silicon Valley Clean Energy
  • Silicon Valley Power
  • SoCalGas
  • Southern California Gas Company
  • Xcel Energy

Law Firms, Consultants and Advisors:

  • Ascend Analytics
  • Bloomberg NEF
  • Customized Energy Solutions
  • DLA Piper LLP (US)
  • DNV GL
  • Fluence Energy, LLC.
  • Fractal Energy Storage Consultants
  • ICF
  • King & Spalding
  • Longitude 122 West, Inc.
  • Luminate, LLC
  • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
  • Navigant Consulting
  • Nexant, Inc.
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Orrick
  • ScottMadden, Inc.
  • Stem
  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • Troutman Pepper

2023 RECAP

 

260+

Attendees

65

Expert Speakers

22

Sessions
Premier Networking

2023 Sponsors

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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.

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. 

Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe

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Orrick is a global leader in the development, financing, acquisition and disposition of utility scale and distributed solar projects.

  • Over 20,000 megawatts of solar PPAs and storage contracts, arrangements, and EPC and module supply contracts
  • Innovative financing including levered and unlevered tax equity financings, using every structure in the market
  • Development, mezzanine, construction and term debt financings for market-leading solar projects
  • High profile solar project and company M&A and joint venture transactions

Atheva

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Atheva is the marketplace for buying and selling green tax credits that maximizes value for all parties. Federal tax credit transferability is causing significant shifts in the tax equity landscape. Atheva’s mission is to lead the charge in this area, enabling transferability to become the leading method of tax credit monetization. Providing a layer of discovery, price efficiency, and legal safety, Atheva’s modern web marketplace allows buyers and sellers to maximize value for assets while significantly reducing time and cost to transact. For sellers, we make it easy to list a credit and provide a bidding mechanism so that sellers can be paired with the buyer who has the highest purchase price. For buyers, we make it easy to search for the credits, review information about the credits and to bid.

BDO USA, LLP

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BDO provides professional assurance, tax and advisory services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. The firm serves clients through more than 80 offices and over 750 independent alliance firms nationwide. As an independent Member Firm of BDO International Limited, BDO serves multi-national clients through a global network of more than 95,000 people working out of more than 1,700 offices across 164 countries and territories.

BDO is the brand name for the BDO network and for each of the BDO Member Firms. BDO USA, LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership, is the U.S. member of BDO International Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, and forms part of the international BDO network of
independent member firms.

Crux Climate

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Crux is the ecosystem for developers, tax credit buyers, and financial institutions to transact & manage transferable tax credits. Our network & tools streamline transactions, provide access to a large market, and reduce risk & increase trust.

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.

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.

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.

Fractal EMS

Website

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

Reunion

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Reunion’s mission is to accelerate investment into clean energy.

The Inflation Reduction Act has created a simpler way to finance renewable energy projects through the sale of tax credits. Reunion’s marketplace facilitates the purchase and sale of transferable tax credits to support solar, wind, battery, biogas and other clean energy projects.

Reunion works with leading clean energy project developers to easily sell tax credits to a deep pool of buyers. Corporations buy tax credits on the Reunion platform to support clean energy, while generating a compelling financial return. Through standardized due diligence, diversification, and insurance, we ensure that it’s easy and low-risk for corporations to purchase tax credits.

Reunion raised corporate funding from leading renewable energy investors in 2022, and our founding team previously raised over $2B to finance solar energy projects around the world.

Swell Energy

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Swell Energy is creating a greater grid for the greater good. The energy management and smart grid solutions provider is accelerating the mass adoption of distributed clean energy technologies by providing homeowners and businesses with financing and VPP programs while partnering with trusted local solar and solar+storage companies for seamless, high-quality installations. By creating a critical mass of dynamic and responsive clean energy resources within utility service areas across the United States, Swell Energy also delivers resilient VPP networks and grid balancing services to utilities, which are fundamental to our future, carbon-free, distributed renewable energy system.

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.

Tyba

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Tyba provides end-to-end modeling tools for companies involved with developing, financing, and operating standalone and hybrid storage projects. This includes energy production models for solar, AI/ML based price forecasting and optimization models for storage assets, and bidding algorithms for wholesale power markets. Users can apply these models for a range of applications including to inform daily operations, defend assumptions in project financings, optimize plant design and system sizing, and determine valuable locations to site a project.

Qcells

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Qcells USA Corp. develops, invests, and delivers photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage system (ESS) projects through Development and Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) solutions in North America. The company brings a decade of global leadership in solar PV to deliver utility-scale power generation plants customized for local and regional energy markets.

It is an affiliate of Qcells Co., Ltd., one of the world’s largest and most recognized photovoltaic manufacturers for its high-performance, high-quality solar modules. It is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea (Global Executive HQ) and Thalheim, Germany (Technology & Innovation HQ). QCELLS USA is a flagship company of Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE Global 500 firm, and a Top 7 business enterprise in South Korea. Qcells USA offers the full spectrum of PV solutions from the core technology of modules to utility-scale project development and investment. For more information, visit www.QcellsUSA.com and on LinkedIn.

Fluence Energy

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Fluence, a Siemens and AES company, is a global energy storage technology solutions and services company that combines the agility of a technology company with the expertise, vision, and financial backing of two industry powerhouses. Established in 2018, as the successor to industry pioneers AES Energy Storage and Siemens energy storage, Fluence’s goal is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. The company offers proven energy storage technology solutions designed to address the diverse needs and challenges of customers in a rapidly transforming energy landscape, providing design, delivery and integration in over 160 countries. Fluence works closely with customers during every step of their journey and provides advisory, financing, and project lifecycle services. To date, Fluence’s teams have deployed or been awarded over 500 MW in 16 countries.

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.

Luminate

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Luminate is a leader in renewable and thermal generation, and covers commercial and next generation technologies in solar, wind, and storage, among others. Our experience is renewables alone is extensive, comprising over 50 GW of generation ranging from distributed to the world’s largest utility-scale projects. We are at the forefront of the rapidly growing energy storage industry, providing comprehensive advisory and independent engineering services, including on some of the world’s largest projects. Our team is led by authorities in energy research, development, resource and energy projections, and power project finance. We provide the full complement of resource consulting, performance modeling, and independent engineering services seamlessly in-house.

PowerDev

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PowerDev allows renewable energy contenders to make decisive and sustainable battery storage investments. The predictive web-based SaaS platform harnesses historical and real-time fragmented big data in ever-changing power market conditions to run multi-dimensional models for swift and continuous decision-making.

Rosendin

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Rosendin Renewable Energy Group brings its experience and capabilities as a diversied union electrical contractor to its role as an established full-service solar EPC. Having installed over 5GW of solar across the US, utilizing various technologies across rooftop, canopy, and ground-mount installations. The RREG also provides in-house design-build solutions for MV collection systems, turnkey substations, transmission installations, and battery storage systems for all types of renewable energy projects.

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