Mountain West Renewables

November 7 - 8, 2023 Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel Salt Lake City, UT

Meet with the Mountain West’s Key Decision Makers for a Comprehensive Update on the Western Markets & the Vast Renewable Energy Opportunities Across the Entire 8-State Region

Opportunities for clean energy continue to grow at an exponential rate across the Mountain West. Spurred by the incentives created by the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment Act, utilities, local and state governments, and LSEs and corporates from Montana to Arizona and from Idaho to New Mexico are procuring ever increasing amounts of renewables and energy storage to ensure they meet climate and decarbonizations goals—including growing EV charging load—as well as ambitious renewable portfolio standard targets.

To seize these opportunities, however, players must deal with the interconnection and transmission bottlenecks caused by changing resources and customer demand across the West, handle continuing supply chain volatility, re-orient their procurement strategies to take advantage of new domestic manufacturing resources and qualify for related tax incentives, as well as cope with the resulting cost and schedule uncertainty in order to get their storage and solar projects financed across the region. Moreover, progress towards the development of more formally organized western electricity markets continues and every player in Western power markets needs to understand the business and operational impacts of new initiatives including SPP’s Western Energy Imbalance Service (WEIS) and Markets+, CAISO’s EDAM and Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM), and the possible development of a Western RTO, however designed and administered.

Only those who can keep up with all these developments and learn the innovations being put in place to manage these hurdles will be able to take full advantage of the burgeoning opportunities in this dynamic, eight-state region.

Infocast’s Mountain West Renewables Summit is organized to let you hear directly from the region’s leading energy decision makers. Leading local experts from utilities, local governments, LSE’s and policy makers come together with the regions’ renewable development and finance communities to network and exchange the latest market intelligence on the state and future of the Mountain West energy markets and discuss their needs, challenges, and the initiatives they have underway in light of the tailwinds for the renewables industries provided by the Inflation Reduction Act and the preceding Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. This remarkable Summit will provide the perfect venue to take advantage of the vast opportunities for renewable energy procurement, development, and deployment in the Mountain West and move the market forward.

2023 FEATURED SPEAKERS

Nate Blouin
Senator
UTAH STATE SENATE,
DISTRICT 13

Steve Handy
Utah State Director
THE WESTERN WAY and
Former Utah State Representative
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
DISTRICT 16

Dr. Annie Bukacek
Commissioner, District 5
MONTANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Eric Hawkins
Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel
TRICO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.

Lisa Tormoen Hickey
Senior Regulatory Attorney
INTERWEST ENERGY ALLIANCE

Joan Hutchinson
Managing Director, Offtake Advisory
MARATHON CAPITAL

Mike Kruger
President & CEO
COLORADO SOLAR & STORAGE ASSOCIATION (COSSA)

Debbie Lyons
Director, Department of Sustainability
SALT LAKE CITY CORPORATION

Jessica Matlock
CEO
LA PLATA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION

Ryan McGraw
Vice President, Project Development
PACIFICORP

Nick Perugini
Co-Owner and VP
SOLARIS ENERGY, INC.

Kris Raper
Vice President of Strategic Engagement and External Affairs
WECC

Vijay Satyal, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of Regional Markets
WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES

Caity Smith
Head of Stakeholder Engagement
ZANSKAR GEOTHERMAL & MINERALS

Mike Squires
Director of Government Affairs
UAMPS

Lauren Tatsuno
Director, Energy & Climate Practice, Power Markets
3DEGREES

Travis Wright
Vice President - Energy & Sustainability
QTS DATA CENTERS

ATTENDED BY INDUSTRY LEADERS & EXPERTS

3Degrees
Accelergen Energy
AES Clean Energy
Ameresco
Americans for a Clean Energy Grid
Arizona Energy Consortium
Audi of America
Aypa Power
Blink Charging Co.
Bonneville Power Administration
Brown & Brown
CAISO
Carbon Rivers
CEBA
Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission
Colorado Energy Office
Colorado Solar & Storage Association (COSSA)
ConnectGEN
Eavor Technologies Inc
Edison Energy
Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources
Department of New Mexico
Engie North America
Fluence
HEAL Utah
Holland & Hart
Innergex
Interwest Energy Alliance
Keybanc Capital Markets
Kit Carson Electric Cooperative
La Plata Electric Association
LevelTen Energy
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Marathon Capital
Montana Public Service Commission

National Renewable Solutions
Nautilus Solar Energy, LLC
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority
New Energy Equity
NW Laborers'-Employers Cooperation and Education Fund (LECET)
OnPeak Power
Our Next Energy (ONE)
PacifiCorp
Pattern Energy
Pine Gate Renewables
Primergy Solar
Provo City
QTS Data Centers
Rev Renewables
Salt Lake City Corporation
SB Energy
SMUD
Solaris Energy, Inc.
Subterra Renewables
The Western Way
Trico Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Troutman Pepper
UAMPS
United Power
Utah Clean Cities Coalition (UCCC)
Utah Clean Energy
Utah Office of Energy Development
Utah Public Service Commission
Utah State Senate, District 13
Volvo Energy
WECC
Western Area Power Administration
Western Resource Advocates
Zanskar Geothermal & Minerals

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

IOUs, Munis/POUs
Renewable Storage and Transmission Developers and Owners (Utility Scale, C&I and Resi Solar)
Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers
Financiers and Financial Advisors
City, State and Regional Governments