Mountain West Renewables
October 28 - 29, 2025
Salt Lake City, UT
Join Top Regional Energy Leaders for the Latest Insights into Expanding Opportunities in the Mountain Wests’ Renewables Market
Clean and renewable energy opportunities in the Mountain West continue to grow. An estimated 29 GW of power is currently underway from numerous projects in development. In just the past year, approximately $70 billion in clean energy investments flowed into six states across the region. Transmission projects alone are projected to generate $690 million in economic activity over the next year.
Major drivers of this momentum are the collaborative effort to improve grid coordination, resilience, and renewable integration across the western U.S. through SPP Markets+, West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative, and CAISO’s EDAM. These initiatives aim to unlock grid efficiencies, reduce curtailment, and enable better transmission planning—critical factors as the Mountain West works to meet skyrocketing electricity demand driven by the region’s data center boom.
But these opportunities do not come without challenges, among them:
- The Regional energy market organization efforts are coming to a head. While they promise to streamline grid inefficiencies, participants must navigate complex issues around governance, seams, power supply and demand shifts, regional political hurdles, transmission needs, and ongoing reliability concerns.
- Regional policymakers, developers, utilities, and capital providers must grapple with unprecedented electrical load growth and determine how to meet demand across vast, diverse service territories.
- Growing uncertainty around potential IRA tax credit rollbacks, federal funding pauses, shifting regulations, and looming tariffs are contributing to an industry-wide cooling of investment and development activity nationwide.
Only those equipped with the latest insights into how these challenges affect the Mountain West will be positioned to overcome obstacles, manage risk, and seize opportunities in this evolving landscape.
Infocast’s Mountain West Renewables Summit is designed to bring together top regional, state, and national policymakers alongside executives from utilities, local governments, LSEs, renewable developers, and the finance community. This unique event offers a one-of-a-kind venue to network and share insights into the current state—and the future—of the Mountain West energy markets.
The Summit’s deep focus on real-world needs, emerging initiatives, and the changing economic and political landscape makes this a can’t-miss event for those looking to lead in renewable energy development and deployment across the Mountain West.
50
Expert Speakers
Hear from top industry leaders
and market stakeholders
19
Content-Packed Sessions
Gain highly-relevant,
exclusive insights and updates
Premier Networking
Connect with key decision-makers
and get deals done
2024 FEATURED SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Steve Feldgus
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Land and Minerals Management
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Gabriel Aguilera
Commissioner
NEW MEXICO PUBLIC REGULATION COMMISSION
Bryce Carter
Emerging Markets Program Manager for Geothermal
COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE
Beth Davis
Director of Origination
SCOUT CLEAN ENERGY
Jacqueline DeRosa
Vice President - Energy Storage Systems
AMERESCO
Walter W. Haase, P.E.
General Manager
NAVAJO TRIBAL UTILITY AUTHORITY
Harry Hansen
Deputy Director
UTAH OFFICE OF ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
Eric Hawkins
Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel
TRICO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC
Saif Ismail
Energy and Sustainability Division Manager
CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE
Jonathan Koehn
Climate Initiatives Director
CITY OF BOULDER
Jennifer Livermore
General Engineer, Geothermal Technologies Office
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Kavya Niranjan
Markets & Transmission Policy Manager
RENEWABLE NORTHWEST
Kris Raper
Vice President, Strategic Engagement & External Affairs
WECC
Leah Rubin Shen
Managing Director
ADVANCED ENERGY UNITED
Derek Seaman
Director, Resource Acquisition
ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE
Carrie Simpson
Senior Director, Seams & Western Services
SOUTHWEST POWER POOL (SPP)
Kelly Snyder
Senior Director of Origination - North America
EDP RENEWABLES
Holly Taylor
Manager of Regional Affairs
CALIFORNIA ISO (CAISO)
Maggie Tallmadge
Director of Development
NAVAJO POWER
Ruby Theresa Nahan
Researcher, Community Solar, ADDS Center
NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY (NREL)
Christopher Thomas, Sr.
Climate & Energy Program Manager
SALT LAKE CITY CORPORATION
2024 SPEAKING ORGANIZATIONS
- Advanced Energy United
- Ameresco
- Arizona Energy Consortium
- Arizona Public Service
- Black Hills Corporation
- Blink Charging
- Bonneville Power Administration
- California ISO (CAISO)
- Carbon Vault Holdings LLC
- City of Albuquerque
- City of Boulder
- Clean Capital LLC
- Colorado Energy Office
- Colorado Solar & Storage Association
- Copia Power
- Cordelio Power
- Davies
- Denham Capital
- DG Fuels, LLC
- EDF Renewables
- EDP Renewables
- Enbridge
- Engie North America
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Guzman Energy
- HEAL Utah
- Holland & Hart LLP
- ibV Energy Partners
- Interwest Energy Alliance
- Legacy Bank & Trust
- LevelTen Energy
- Lotus Infrastructure
- Mercuria Energy America
- MUFG
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
- National Renewables Solutions (NATRS)
- Navajo Power
- Navajo Tribal Utility Authority
- New Mexico Department of Transportation
- New Mexico Public Regulation Commission
- Nexamp
- Ormat Energy Storage
- Prudential Private Capital
- Renewable America
- Renewable Northwest
- RMI
- rPlus Energies
- RWE Clean Energy
- Sage Geosystems
- Salt Lake City Corporation
- Salt River Project
- Scout Clean Energy
- SolaREIT
- SolRiver Capital
- Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
- STX Commodities
- SYSO
- The University of Utah
- Tri-Merit
- Trico Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- Trio
- Troutman Pepper
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- US Solar
- Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS)
- Utah Clean Energy
- Utah Department of Transportation
- Utah Office of Energy Development
- Volvo Energy
- Vote Solar
- WECC
- Wells Fargo Energy Group
- Western Resource Advocates
- Zanskar
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Solar, Storage, Wind & Transmission Developers
- Utilities
- Local, State, Regional and Federal Energy Regulators
- Investors, Banks, Lenders & Financiers
- EPCs, Construction, and Equipment Suppliers
- Energy Risk Management Services / Insurance
- Cities, Munis, Co-ops, & other Energy Procurers
- Corporate Offtakers
- City, State and Regional Governments
- Law Firms
- Analysts & Consultants
PAST PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
- ABB Inc
- Acciona Energy USA Global
- Aces
- Advanced Energy United
- AES Clean Energy
- AESI
- Albertsons Companies, Inc.
- Allium Renewable Energy
- Alpha Omega Power
- Also Energy
- Altis Energy Services LLC
- Ameresco
- Ampt
- Apex Clean Energy
- Arevon Energy
- Arion Energy
- Arizona Energy Consortium
- Arizona Public Service
- Arizona Solar Energy Industries Association (ARISEIA)
- Avangrid Renewables
- AWG
- Balanced Rock Power
- Bamert Seed Company
- Barr Engineering Co.
- Black & Veatch Management Consulting, LLC
- Black Hills Corporation
- Black Mountain Energy Storage
- Blink Charging
- Bonneville Power Administration
- Broad Reach Power LLC
- Brookfield Renewable
- Brown & Brown
- Busch Law Firm PLLC
- California ISO (CAISO)
- Capital Power
- Carbon Vault Holdings LLC
- Champlin Renewables, LLC
- City and County of Denver
- City of Albuquerque
- City of Boulder
- City of Reno
- Clark Bros Inc
- CLE Power
- Clean Capital LLC
- Clean Development International
- Clean Energy Buyers Association
- CleanArc Data Centers
- CleanCapital
- Clearway Energy Group
- Clenera
- Collective Clean Energy Fund
- Colorado Energy Office
- Colorado Solar & Storage Association (COSSA)
- ConnectGen
- Convergent Energy & Power
- Copia Power
- Cordelio Power
- CPS America
- CTC Global
- Customized Energy Solutions
- Cyrq Energy, Inc.
- Davies Public Affaris
- Denham Capital
- DEPCOM Power
- DG Fuels, LLC
- Doral, LLC
- Duncan Weinberg Genzer & Pembroke
- Dynasty Power
- Ecoplexus, Inc.
- EDF Renewables
- EDP Renewables
- EIP Storage
- Elective Power
- Electric Power Engineers
- Empowered Energy
- Enbridge
- Energy Exemplar
- Enertis
- ENGIE, North America
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Environmental Science Associates
- Enyo Renewable Energy
- Eocene Environmental Group
- ESA
- Estuary Power
- Excelsior Energy Capital
- Exus Renewables
- FERVO Energy
- FlexGen
- Fluence
- Focus Clean Energy, LLL
- Foley & Lardner LLP
- GameChange Solar
- GE Renewables
- Green Box Solar
- Guzman Energy
- Hartree Partners
- HEAL Utah
- Heber Light & Power
- Hexagon Energy
- Holland & Hart LLP
- IBEW
- ibV Energy Partners
- Idaho Power Company
- Innergex Renewable Energy
- Interwest Energy Alliance
- IOWN Renewable Energy Inc.
- Japan Electric Power Infomation Center, USA
- Jupiter Power
- JUWI Inc.
- Korsail Energy
- Laborers' Health and Safety LiUNA
- Lancer Energy
- LandGate
- Langan Engineering and Environmental Services
- LCPtracker
- Legacy Bank & Trust
- LevelTen Energy
- Longroad Energy
- Lotus Infrastructure
- Low Carbon Fuels Coalition
- LS Power
- M.A. Mortenson Company
- Marathon Capital
- Mercuria Energy America
- Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc.
- MUFG
- Murray City Power
- National Cooperative Bank
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
- National Renewable Solutions, LLC
- Nautilus Solar Energy, LLC
- Navajo Power
- Navajo Tribal Utility Authority
- Nevados Engineering
- New Energy Equity
- New Mexico Department of Transportation
- New Mexico Public Regulation Commission
- Nexamp
- NextEra Energy Resources
- Nova Clean Energy
- Novis Renewables
- NRS
- NWLECET
- Ohio Energy Storage Association
- OnPeak Power
- Onyx Renewable Partners LP
- Orennia
- Ormat Technologies, Inc.
- Orsted
- Panamint Capital
- Perkins Coie
- PGM
- Pine Gate Renewables
- Pivot Energy
- PNE USA, Inc.
- Potentia Renewables Inc.
- POWER Engineers
- Powerex
- Powin
- Prevalon Energy
- Primergy Solar
- Private Energy Partners
- Prudential Private Capital
- Qcells
- QTS Data Centers
- Reactivate
- Renewable America
- Renewable Northwest
- Renova inc.
- Repsol Renewables
- RES America Developments
- REV Renewables
- Risk Strategies
- RMI
- Rocky Mountain Power (PacifiCorp)
- rPlus Energies
- RWE Clean Energy
- Sage Geosystems
- Salt Lake City Corporation
- Salt River Project
- Savion
- Schneider Electric
- Scout Clean Energy
- Siemens Energy
- Silicon Ranch
- SINOVOLTAICS
- Sol Systems
- Solar4America Technology, Inc.
- SolaREIT
- Solariant Capital
- Solarjuice Technology Inc
- SolRiver Capital
- Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
- Starwood
- State of New Mexico- NMDOT
- Stellar Renewable Power
- STX Commodities
- Sunpin
- SYSO Technologies
- TAPP, Inc.
- Tenaska
- TGE
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- The University of Utah
- TransAlta Corporation
- Transcon Environmental, Inc.
- Trico Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- Tri-Merit
- Trio
- Triple Oak Power
- Troutman Pepper LLP
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Unicorn Solar Inc
- US Bitcoin Corp
- US Energy Information Administration
- US Solar
- Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS)
- Utah Clean Cities Coalition (UCCC)
- Utah Clean Energy
- Utah Department of Transportation
- Utah House of Representatives
- Utah Inland Port Authority
- Utah Office of Energy Development
- Vistra Corp
- Vitol
- Volvo Energy
- Vote Solar
- WECC
- Wells Fargo
- Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking
- Wells Fargo Energy Group
- Western Energy Storage Taskforce (WEST)
- Western Freedom
- Western Resource Advocates
- Winergy / Flender Corporation
- Xcel Energy
- X-Elio
- Zanskar Geothermal
- Zero Emission Think Tank
2024 RECAP
230+
Event Participants
60
Expert Speakers
19
Content-Packed Sessions
2024 Sponsors
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