Projects & Money - Presented by Infocast

December 5 - 7, 2023
Sheraton Charlotte Hotel
Charlotte, NC

Join Leading Capital Providers and Project Developers at the Premier Project Finance Event as They Set the Deal-Making Agenda for the Year Ahead!

Projects & Money is the meeting where the country’s leading project developers and the financial community come together to kick off their year. Known as the “one-stop networking hub for project finance professionals," this one-of-a-kind event —- featuring its unique brand of penetrating discussions of the latest trends, approaches, issues and opportunities and eliciting the most candid insights from the nation’s leading practitioners and gurus -- returns to New Orleans January 17-19, 2024.

If you want the absolutely latest and most informed analyses of how the project finance industry’s new regime of IRA incentives is remaking industry practices, despite increasing capital and debt costs, inflation, interest rate pressures and geopolitical turmoil, this is where you want to start out your year. This event offers the very deepest dive into your ability to deploy capital, from both traditional and novel sources, for solar, wind and storage as well as for projects in LNG, hydrogen, carbon capture, alternative fuels and other areas of growing activity.

Do you want to know how and where developers expect to increase their development activity in the year ahead, as well as their best practices for managing a variety of risks? Only those armed with the latest intelligence received directly from the industry’s top movers and shakers will be positioned to maximize their success in the year ahead.

Do you want to take advantage of the high-powered networking that is at the heart of Projects & Money? From beginning to end, there will be constant opportunities to meet key decision-makers from the project and finance communities, get answers to your most pressing questions, and capitalize on new opportunities that will lead to successful deals.

Come, join us in New Orleans to kick-off your 2024 calendar year. While this event has imitators, it really has no peers. You’ll come away with genuinely new approaches, strategies and relationships that developers and financiers are using to get projects across the finish line in today’s unprecedented financing and investment environment, and across the full range of today's expanded spectrum of project opportunities. Please review our unique agenda and faculty and reserve your place today.

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70

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

SUMMIT AGENDA

Group rates available for 3 or more attendees!

FEATURED SPEAKERS

 

Curry Aldridge
Senior Vice President, Origination & Commercial Operations
TENASKA POWER SERVICES CO

Jeetu Balchandani
Global Head of Infrastructure Debt
BLACKROCK

Mit Buchanan
Managing Director, Energy Investments
J.P. MORGAN

Thomas Byrne
CEO
CLEANCAPITAL

Jorge Camiña
Partner & Head of Sustainable Infrastructure Credit
DENHAM CAPITAL

Allen Capps
Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer
ENBRIDGE

Kris Cheney
Executive Vice President: West, Central and Environmental Affairs
EDP RENEWABLES NORTH AMERICA

Ralph Cho
Co-Chief Executive Officer
APTERRA INFRASTRUCTURE CAPITAL LLC

Steve Cunningham
Managing Partner
MADISON ENERGY INVESTMENTS

David Groleau
SVP, Origination
PINE GATE RENEWABLES

Jesse Grossman
Chief Executive Officer & Co‑Founder
SOLTAGE

Randolph Mann
President
ESVOLTA

Jeff Meigel
Chief Investment Officer
CYPRESS CREEK RENEWABLES

Kellie Metcalf
Managing Partner
ENCAP INVESTMENTS

Camelia Miu
Chief Financial Officer
NAUTILUS SOLAR ENERGY

Prashant Mupparapu
Head of Investments and Asset Finance
CITADEL COMMODITIES

Martin Pasqualini
Managing Director, Partner
CCA GROUP

Meghan Schultz
Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President, Finance & Capital Markets
INVENERGY

Jordan Tamchin
Senior Vice President and Leader, Tax Insurance Practice
CAC SPECIALTY

Jahi Wise
Acting Director of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
US EPA

HEAR FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS & EXPERTS

 

  • Acciona Energy USA Global LLC
  • American Transmission Company
  • Apex Clean Energy
  • Apterra Infrastructure Capital LLC
  • BlackRock
  • CAC Specialty
  • Carbon America
  • CCA Group
  • Citadel Commodities
  • CleanCapital
  • CoBank, ACB
  • Constellation
  • Cypress Creek Renewables
  • Denham Capital
  • Eavor
  • EDP Renewables North America
  • EmberClear
  • Enbridge
  • EnCap Investments
  • EPA
  • esVolta
  • Foss & Company
  • GoldenSet Capital Partners LLC
  • H.I.G. Capital
  • ICF
  • Invenergy
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Leidos Engineering
  • Linklaters
  • Madison Energy Investments
  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • Nautilus Solar Energy
  • New Energy Development Company
  • Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
  • OGCI Climate Investments LLP
  • PA Consulting
  • PEI Global Partners
  • Pine Gate Renewables
  • Segue Sustainable Infrastructure
  • Soltage
  • Tenaska Power Services Co
  • Uniper Global Commodities

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

 

  • Gas, Power & Renewable Developers & IPPs
  • Debt, Capital & Alternative Finance Providers
  • Utilities
  • Insurance Providers
  • EPCs & Equipment Suppliers
  • Tax Equity, Private Equity & Infrastructure Investors
  • Energy Traders & Marketers
  • Financial Advisors, Analysts & Consultants
  • Law Firms

PAST PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

 

  • 1898 & Co.
  • ABB Inc.
  • ACCURE Battery Intelligence
  • Aderis Energy, LLC
  • Advanced Energy Economy
  • AES
  • Ampyr Energy USA
  • Apex Clean Energy
  • Apogee
  • Arkansas Public Service Commission
  • Avangrid Renewables
  • Babcock & Wilcox
  • Balch and Bingham LLP
  • Beaufort Rosemary LLC
  • Beltline Energy
  • Black Mountain Energy Storage
  • Blue Ridge Power
  • Bluestem Energy Solutions
  • Booth & Associates, LLC
  • Bowman Consulting
  • Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
  • BrightNight Power
  • Brown & Brown
  • Burns & McDonnell
  • Burr & Forman LLP
  • CAC Specialty
  • Candela Renewables
  • Capital Power
  • Carolina Solar Energy
  • Castle Energy Group
  • CFEX
  • Charlotte Business Journal
  • CleanChoice Energy
  • ClearGen
  • Cleco
  • Cobb EMC
  • Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses
  • Cornerstone Systems, Inc.
  • cQuant.io
  • CREADIS Inc.
  • CWP Energy Solutions
  • Cypress Creek Renewables
  • Davey Resource Group, Inc.
  • Davidson College
  • Davis Hill Development
  • Daymark Energy Advisors, Inc.
  • DHL Industrial Projects
  • Dominion Energy
  • Doosan GridTech
  • Duke Energy
  • E2
  • East Point Energy
  • ECS Southeast, LLP
  • EDF Renewables, Inc.
  • EDP Renewables
  • Electric Power Engineers, LLC
  • Empower Energies
  • Enerfin Renewables
  • Energy and Policy Institute
  • Energy Exemplar
  • energyRe
  • Enertis Solar Inc.
  • Entergy Louisiana
  • Enverus
  • EOS Capital Advisors
  • ERM
  • Erthos
  • Essense Partners
  • Federal Pacific
  • First National Bank of PA
  • First Solar
  • FORVIS
  • FORVIS LLP
  • Fox Rothschild
  • Fractal Energy Storage Consultants
  • Freestone Renewables
  • GAI Consultants, Inc.
  • GameChange Solar
  • Gemma Power Systems
  • Georgia Power Company
  • Georgia Public Service Commission
  • Green Lantern Solar
  • Green Power EMC
  • GreenFront Energy Partners
  • GreenGo Energy US, Inc.
  • Greenleaf Power
  • GreenStruxure
  • Greenvolt Power Actualize
  • HDR Engineering
  • Headwater Environmental
  • Heelstone Renewable Energy, LLC
  • hep
  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • Holocene Clean Energy
  • Houlihan Lokey
  • Hy Stor Energy LP
  • Ingeteam
  • Integrated Media Publishing
  • Invenergy LLC
  • Jiachi West, LLC
  • JinkoSolar (U.S.) Inc.
  • Johnson Controls
  • JST Power Equipment
  • Kairos Government Affairs
  • Kale Construction Supply
  • Kentucky Conservation Committee
  • Kentucky Office of Energy Policy
  • Key Equipment Finance
  • Kilpatrick Townsend
  • Kimley-Horn Associates
  • KPMG
  • LaBella Associates
  • Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.
  • Leeward Renewable Energy
  • Leyline Renewable Capital, LLC
  • Liberty Utilities
  • Longroad Energy
  • LS Energy Solutions
  • Madison Energy Investments
  • Mainstream Renewable Power
  • Mangum Economics
  • Manulife Investment Management
  • McAdams
  • McGriff Insurance
  • McGuireWoods Consulting LLC
  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • Mercer Thompson
  • Meta
  • Milliken
  • MISO
  • Mississippi Power Company
  • Mississippi Public Service Commission
  • Mitsubishi Electric
  • Mountain Association
  • MUFG
  • National Grid Renewables
  • NC Clean Energy Technology Center
  • NCSEA
  • Nelson Mullins
  • Nexceris (Li-ion Tamer)
  • NextEra Energy, Inc.
  • North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association
  • North Carolina Utilities Commission
  • Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
  • Novis Renewables LLC
  • Nucor Corporation
  • Oakhurst Energy Development
  • Olsson
  • Origis Energy
  • Origis Services, LLC
  • ORIX Corporation
  • Palmetto Power
  • Parker Poe
  • Pathward, National Assoication
  • Pattern Energy
  • Patward
  • Pine Gate Renewables
  • Pinnacle Financial Partners
  • Plus Power, LLC
  • PNE USA
  • Powder Day Capital, LLC
  • Primergy Solar
  • QE Solar
  • Radiance Solar
  • Rayonier
  • Recurrent Energy
  • Redeux Energy
  • Renewco Power Ltd.
  • RES
  • RockBridge Energy
  • RPS
  • RWE Renewables
  • S&ME, Inc.
  • SAM Companies
  • Sargent & Lundy
  • Savion Energy
  • ScottMadden
  • SEEM
  • SERC
  • Silicon Ranch
  • Sofos Harbert Renewable Energy
  • Sol Systems
  • SolAmerica Energy
  • Solar Provider Group
  • Solar4America
  • Sol-REIT
  • Solterra Energy, LLC
  • SolUnesco
  • Southeast Sustainability Directors Network
  • Southeastern Wind Coalition
  • Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
  • Southern Company
  • Southern Environmental Law Center
  • Southern Renewable Energy Association
  • Southface
  • Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
  • Staubli
  • Stellar Renewable Power
  • Stewart Title Guaranty Company
  • Strata Clean Energy
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
  • Sun Tribe Development
  • SunEnergy1
  • SWCA Environmental Consultants
  • Swell Energy
  • TenneSEIA
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • The Hawthorn Group
  • Tidwell Group
  • Timberland Investment Resources
  • Today's Power, Inc.
  • TotalEnergies USA
  • Treaty Oak Clean Energy
  • Treehouse Investments
  • Triple Oak Power
  • Troutman Pepper
  • True Green Capital
  • TVA
  • Ulteig
  • United Community Bank
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Urban Grid Solar
  • USDA
  • ViewPoint Solutions Group, LLC
  • Virginia Renewable Energy Alliance
  • Vitis Energy
  • VSUN
  • Wattch
  • Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking
  • Weyerhaeuser
  • Wind Works Power
  • Wood Mackenzie
  • Wood PLC
  • WSP USA
  • Zorya Energy Advisors

2023 RECAP

 



540+

Attendees

85

Expert Speakers

17

Sessions
Premier Networking

One of the best conferences of the year. Beautiful venue, intimate setting, and very well organized!

Bill Miller, MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS



A very valuable conference for the industry! A review of last year’s statistics and the forward look at the market sets the stage for potential transactions, capital supply, players, etc. A very well attended event!

Lori Kepner, COBANK



If you can only make one conference a year,
this is the one!

Jeff Carusone, FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE

Great panels with relevant and timely issues. A must place to be for meeting top industry players.

Daniel Hanson, TRI-STATE TAX & ACCOUNTING EA



Terrific Conference. Speakers provide real-time information on the state of financial and investor markets. One of the best energy financing conferences you can attend.

Merrill Kramer, PIERCE ATWOOD LLP



The Projects & Money conference in New Orleans always delivers!
The panels are packed with content and move along at a great pace.

Jean Bailie, NFRONT CONSULTING LLC

VENUE

 

The Roosevelt New Orleans, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel
130 Roosevelt Way, New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: (504) 648-1200


Room Rate: $299
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Cutoff Date: Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Group Name: Projects & Money

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CAC Specialty

Website

With a knowledge-driven approach informed by industry data and decades of honed instinct, CAC Specialty brings an innovative vision to insurance broking to solve your risk challenges – from the simple to the previously unsolvable. CAC Specialty is an integrated specialty insurance brokerage and investment banking business focused on providing subject matter expertise and placement capabilities across the spectrum of insurance and alternative capital markets.

CAC Specialty provides a cohesive team across all disciplines to help you take a project from early-stage concept and development through completion. CAC Specialty’s Tax Insurance team is composed of tax attorneys who combine their technical expertise, industry experience, and business acumen to craft innovative and unique renewable energy tax insurance solutions. CAC Natural Resources has a strong team with a proven reputation for exemplary client service within our industry verticals: Oil & Gas (Upstream, Midstream, Downstream), Power, Utilities and Renewables, Mining and Metals, and Surety.

CoBank

Website

CoBank is one of the largest private providers of credit to the U.S. rural economy and infrastructure sector. CoBank’s Project Finance Team consists of 25 individuals dedicated to the power industry focused on delivering bespoke project financing solutions to renewable energy, BESS, thermal and transmission power projects exclusively located in the U.S. and its territories. CoBank has the ability to partner with other Farm Credit organizations and commercial banks to syndicate large debt facilities. CoBank is often ranked in the top five leading institutions in the power project finance league table in the US. CoBank is AA/A+ rated by S&P’s and Fitch respectively, which reflects the bank’s public role, unique funding advantage and implied support by the US Government.

Foss & Company, Inc.

Website

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.

ICF

Website

ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI) is a global consulting and technology services provider with more than 5,000 professionals focused on making big things possible for our clients. We are business analysts, policy specialists, technologists, researchers, digital strategists, social scientists and creatives. Since 1969, government and commercial clients have worked with ICF to overcome their toughest challenges on issues that matter profoundly to their success. Come engage with us at icf.com.

Linklaters

Website

Linklaters is a leading law firm globally in renewables and energy transition. Our Energy and Infrastructure practice advises on complex, bespoke and often multi-jurisdictional transactions covering all aspects of the value chain, allowing us to anticipate and identify issues that may arise during the course of any project. With a proven track record in leading the energy transition globally and our extensive knowledge of the U.S. market, we present a one-of-its-kind offering of legal services for sponsors, developers, investors and lenders in the U.S. renewable and energy transition industry.

We are at the forefront of the renewables sector, acting on some of the largest transactions in 2021 and 2022 globally. This strength is evidenced by on our 2022 Band 1 Chambers Global: Multi-Jurisdictional Projects & Energy ranking, recognition at the PFI and IJ Global awards and topping IJ Global’s renewables league tables for FY2021.

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Website

McDermott Will & Emery propels the success of the world’s most respected, dynamic and important organizations. Together, we fuel missions, knock down barriers and shape markets. As a business operating in the highly specialized energy sector, you encounter unique legal challenges that require a practical and complete understanding of your industry. Our dedicated, full-service global energy team uses broad market knowledge to deliver coordinated counsel around the world, focusing on your particular transactional and regulatory needs in service of your business objectives. To help you resolve complex issues, comply with new regulations and stay a step ahead of the competition, we monitor both macro trends and local issues within the industry. With a track record of success and decades of experience in domestic markets, cross-border representations and coordinating work in foreign jurisdictions, we are well positioned to provide you with comprehensive advice in any area of energy law.

McGuireWoods LLP

Website

McGuireWoods’ cross-discipline, cross-practice energy industry team brings together legal, policy, energy technology and business experience to meet the challenges our clients face. Our energy industry experience has been recognized for the depth of our bench (more than 100 interdisciplinary lawyers) and the extent of our experience. We have been serving some of our energy clients for nearly 50 years.

We advance our renewable energy clients’ interests by getting deals done, by helping clients successfully and creatively navigate the complexities and pitfalls in this dynamically evolving industry and by maximizing the value of various tax, energy, environmental rules, markets and governmental incentives available to the renewable energy industry.

MUFG Union Bank

Website

MUFG Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service bank with offices across the United States. The bank also offers an extensive portfolio of value-added solutions for customers, including access to investment banking, personal and corporate trust, capital markets, global custody, transaction banking, and other services. With assets of $120.0 billion as of March 31, 2016, the bank has strong capital reserves, credit ratings, and capital ratios relative to peer banks.1 MUFG Union Bank is a proud member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE: MTU), one of the world’s largest financial organizations with total assets of approximately ¥298.3 trillion (JPY) or $2.6 trillion (USD),2 as of March 31, 2016. MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation, the financial holding company, and MUFG Union Bank, N.A., have corporate headquarters in New York City.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

Website

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.

PA Consulting

Website

The energy sector is at the heart of the battle against climate change. With a focus on forging a sustainable and net-zero future, the energy transition is underway.

Energy affordability, accessibility, security and water scarcity are just some of the challenges facing the sector. There’s also a huge opportunity, however. The rapid scale-up and use of new technology, the digital and clean mobility revolution, and the creation of resilient and interconnected energy supply chains and infrastructure, are areas redefining the energy eco-system, and the role of the customer.

At PA Consulting, we work across the energy value chain to help our clients thrive in complex energy markets and establish next generation utilities and technology.

Nautilus Solar

Website

Nautilus Solar Energy, LLC is a leading owner-operator of solar projects serving the community solar market and corporate customers throughout the United States.  A pioneer in solar energy since 2006, Nautilus is committed to creating a clean, sustainable future by offering an equitable and affordable renewable energy choice. Through its Community Solar initiative, Nautilus is making solar energy available to a broader marketplace, including low-to-moderate income (LMI) households and unrated businesses that wish to reduce their carbon footprint and utility bills.

Nautilus is wholly owned by Power Sustainable, a global multi-platform alternative asset manager with a long-term investment approach focused on sustainable strategies. Nautilus owns solar projects throughout their entire lifecycle enabling Nautilus, along with entrusted local partners, to fulfill its promise of creating a better world by powering communities with clean energy for the long term.

Leidos Engineering

Website

Leidos applies technical, commercial, and regulatory expertise to advise the development, financing, acquisition, and restructuring of capital-intensive energy and infrastructure assets. Our capabilities span renewable and conventional power generation, gas midstream, transmission and distribution, and emerging energy solutions meeting the demands of the evolving marketplace. Built on a rich history of technology excellence, Leidos provides independent engineering, market analysis, and transmission analysis to help our clients understand each project’s full potential to compete and perform. Learn more at energy.leidos.com.

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