RNG & SAF Capital Markets Summit - Presented by Infocast

ABOUT THE SUMMIT

 

Gather with Industry Leaders from Across the RNG + SAF Value Chains Driving the Massive Capital Deployment & Buildout of Projects Across North America

The world recognizes the need for renewable natural gas and sustainable aircraft fuels, and these fields are booming. Their recognized environmental benefits are being backed by an unprecedented US government commitment to low-carbon biofuels via new tax credits in last year’s IRA. The IEA projects an 18-fold growth in renewable natural gas (RNG) production by 2040, and industry sources project a 50% expansion in the next two years. IATA projects an expansion of SAF annual production from the current 125 million liters to 5 billion by 2025. These exponential growth curves and the enormous business opportunities they entail, however, will only be available to those able to mobilize billions of dollars of capital for the production, transportation and marketing of these fuels.

To facilitate the flow of this capital into expanding these renewable fuel industries, Infocast has organized the first annual RNG & SAF Capital Markets Summit to bring together equity investors, debt providers, project development platforms, raw material resource owners, offtakers and the rest of the participants necessary to creating successful RNG & SAF projects. Only those armed with the best understanding of the needs, risk appetites, and perspectives of all the key players in the business, as well as the latest analytic data, will be able to put forth the best strategies to profitably drive the massive buildout of RNG and SAF.

Infocast’s RNG & SAF Capital Markets Summit will provide a unique forum to discuss the road ahead, the challenges and the business opportunities involved in scaling up these critical sectors. The program will provide an in-depth analysis by leading participants and experts of the new incentive structures of the IRA and how leading-edge projects are being structured to maximize these new revenue streams. Review our exceptional program and secure your ticket today!

Plus! Don’t miss our deep dive Executive Briefing: Tax Credits for Alternative Asset Classes - 45Q & 45Z, providing you with a unique opportunity to understand the new world of post-IRA tax credits and revenue streams as explicated by some of the nation’s leading experts in this field.

Co-Located with: CCS/Decarbonization Project Finance & Investment Summit
Access both incredible programs with the same ticket!

Network with even more industry leaders as we combine audiences with our CCS/Decarbonization Project Finance & Investment Summit for an unparalleled analysis of the 45Q and 45Z tax credits. Hear the latest analysis of available IRS-issued guidance and the new project structures that are being developed to maximize their value. Visit the event page to learn more.

65

Expert Speakers

Hear from top industry leaders and market stakeholders

17

Content-Packed Sessions

Gain highly-relevant, exclusive insights and updates

Premier Networking

Connect with key decision makers and get deals done

FEATURED SPEAKERS

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

John McAuliff
Senior Advisor, Climate
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, RBCS-RD

Alfredo Arredondo
CA Government Affairs Consultant
LOW CARBON FUELS COALITION

Beatrice Batty
Director, Fuel Operations
SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT

N. Ross Buckenham
CEO
CALIFORNIA BIOENERGY LLC (CALBIO)

Tim Cesarek
Chief Commercial Officer
GEVO

Ashley Duplechien
Director of Business
Development – RNG

U.S. ENERGY

Gary Greenblatt
Senior Managing Director
MARATHON CAPITAL

Kathleen Henderson
Senior Director, Operations, Environment and Regulatory Affairs
CANADIAN AIRPORTS COUNCIL

Casey Holsapple
CEO
REDTAIL RENEWABLES

Kirsten Higgins
Vice President, Renewable Natural Gas
ANEW CLIMATE

Michael E. Hoffman
Managing Director
STIFEL

Keaton Horner
Director
ORENNIA

Stephen Johnson
Founder & CEO
ILLINOIS CLEAN FUELS

Sahar Kamali
Originator, Energy Transition
MERCURIA

Charles E. Love Jr.
GM, RNG Portfolio
TRILLIUM, A LOVE'S COMPANY

Jean Paquin
President and CEO
SAF+ CONSORTIUM

Jason Salfi
CEO
DIMENSIONAL ENERGY

David Wentworth
President & CEO
EVENSOL LLC

Cindy Yeilding
Board Member and Vice Chair
THE CENTER FOR HOUSTON'S FUTURE
and Former Senior Vice President, BP America
BP

Grant Zimmerman
CEO
AMP AMERICAS

HEAR FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS & EXPERTS

 

  • Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
  • Allen & Overy
  • American Biogas Council
  • American Coalition for Ethanol
  • AMP Americas
  • Anew Climate
  • Baker Botts
  • Black & Veatch
  • Burnham Sterling & Company
  • CalBio
  • Canadian Airports Council
  • Clean Energy Fuels
  • Clean Fuels Alliance America
  • Climate Investment
  • Deloitte
  • Denbury Inc.
  • Dimensional Energy
  • EDP Renewables
  • Euclid Transactional
  • Evensol LLC
  • EY
  • Foley
  • Foss & Company
  • Gevo, Inc.
  • GoldenSet Capital Partners LLC
  • Greater Commercial Lending
  • H.I.G. Capital
  • Haffner Energy
  • Honeywell UOP
  • Hy Stor Energy LP
  • IFM Investors
  • Illinois Clean Fuels
  • Live Oak Bank
  • Lone Cypress Energy Services
  • Low Carbon Fuels Coalition
  • Marathon Capital
  • Mercuria
  • NEXT Renewable Fuels, Inc.
  • Nomura Greentech
  • Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
  • Orennia
  • Orrick
  • Redtail Renewables
  • SAF+ Consortium
  • Solid Waste Management, City of Houston
  • Signature Flight Support
  • Stifel
  • STX Commodities
  • Svante
  • Synthica Energy
  • The Center for Houston's Future
  • Trillium, a Love's Company
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture, RBCS-RD
  • U.S. Energy
  • United Energy Trading, LLC
  • Valhalla Private Capital
  • Weaver
  • White & Case LLP
  • Wilson Sonsini
  • Winston & Strawn

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

 

  • Producers & Developers of RNG, SAF, and Clean Energy Facilities
  • Oil & Gas Companies, Pipelines & Refineries
  • Biofuel, Biogas & Hydrogen Producers
  • Industrial & Petrochemical Manufacturers
  • Transport & Logistics Companies
  • Raw Material Resource Owners
  • Tax Equity & PE Investors, Lenders & Financiers
  • Utilities, IPPs, Energy Traders & Marketers
  • Aircraft Fuel Systems Managers & Airline Fuel Consortia
  • Local, State & Federal Agencies & Regulators
  • Law Firms, Consultants & Analysts
  • Engineering Firms, Equipment Manufacturers & EPC’s

 

VENUE

 

Hilton Houston Post Oak by the Galleria
2001 Post Oak Blvd
Houston, TX 77056


**WARNING: Please do not book any guest rooms with 3rd Party Housing Companies for this event. Infocast does not partner with outside housing companies, so we advise that you only book guest rooms at the hotel using the details provided above.*

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Foley & Lardner LLP

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Foley & Lardner LLP looks beyond the law to focus on the evolving demands facing its clients and their industries. With over 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices across the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia, Foley approaches client service by understanding client priorities, objectives, and challenges. Foley’s Energy Industry Team helps clients address business and legal concerns to keep traditional and renewable source projects on track — from due diligence, negotiation, and regulatory approval through closing. We have a long history of successfully managing renewable and alternative energy projects and financings involving fuel sources such as onshore and offshore wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, biomass, ethanol and biodiesel. Foley also has an accomplished history in addressing the litigation and transactional needs of clients in the oil and gas sector, including independents, public companies and individual mineral owners. We counsel clients on issues concerning leasehold operations, royalty and title disputes, farmouts, right-of-ways and gas purchase agreements. (www.foley.com/energy/)

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has one of the world’s leading project finance and renewable energy practices. We represent developers, lenders, equity investors, manufacturers, technology companies and other sector participants in a broad array of energy and infrastructure projects, with a focus on the development, financing, operation, acquisition and disposition of renewable energy projects and renewable energy companies.

Our team has significant experience across all renewable energy technologies, including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, biofuel and hydroelectric projects and over the past year we have been lead counsel on the three largest renewable energy projects financed in the United States.

Allen & Overy

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Allen & Overy is a global law firm that helps the world’s leading businesses to grow, innovate and thrive. For almost a century, we have built a reputation for our commitment to think ahead and bring original solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and commercial challenges.

At a time of significant turbulence in the business world, we are determined to help our clients embrace change, confidently expand into new markets and keep on top of ever-more complicated regulatory frameworks.

To do this, we will harness our global strength and local knowledge. We will drive towards our vision to become the world’s most innovative law firm. And we will continue to create an environment where the brightest minds can flourish.

Baker Botts

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Baker Botts is a globally respected law firm with 725 lawyers and 14 international offices. We are driven by the highest ethical and professional standards. This professionalism, combined with industry knowledge and insights and our understanding of the law, helps us to deliver effective, innovative solutions for our clients.

For more than 175 years, Baker Botts has delivered results-oriented services, establishing us as a leading law firm. Our reputation is complemented by our leadership in government, the judiciary and our communities. Regardless of size, sector or jurisdiction of a client, our commitment is to help achieve their business objectives.

CAC Specialty

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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.

Climate Investment

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Climate Investment (CI) is an independently managed private markets investor focused on capital-efficient industrial decarbonization. It invests in technologies and business models that drive high-impact in heavy emitting sectors, targeting opportunities that can deliver scaled, quantified greenhouse gas reduction alongside attractive risk-adjusted returns. The firm seeks to accelerate impact by investing and collaborating widely. It provides early stage to growth capital for both ventures and project opportunities, and supports its portfolio across its business lifecycle, ensuring that the companies deliver both GHG impact and financial success. The firm has made over 30 investments across a range of GHG-intensive sectors: energy, industry, built environments and transportation. CI’s portfolio companies offer solutions that avoid, reduce, recycle or store emitted methane or carbon dioxide. The firm reports its portfolio’s quantified GHG impact annually against a methodology it has co-developed with other investors to encourage adoption of common metrics. In the period 2019-2022 its portfolio companies collectively realized 57 million tonnes of CO2e1 of GHG reduction. Climate Investment was founded by members of the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative. They have invested in Climate Investment funds and deployed many of its portfolio innovations, supporting their early commercial development.

CohnReznick Capital

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At CohnReznick Capital our team creates unprecedented firsts, providing investment banking services to the sustainability sector. Since 2010, CohnReznick Capital has executed more than 85 project and corporate financings for renewable energy assets valued at more than $11 billion in aggregate. As the #1 ranked Renewable Energy Financial Adviser by IJ Global Magazine, we deliver exceptional service for financial institutions, infrastructure funds, strategic participants (IPPs and utilities), and leading global clean energy developers. Our team of experts help our clients breakthrough the dynamic and evolving sustainability sector by simplifying project finance, M&A, capital raising and special situations. To learn more visit www.cohnreznickcapital.com, follow @CR_Capital on twitter, and connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook & Instagram.

Deloitte

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DELOITTE’S M&A practice provides, comprehensive and strategically focused tax, accounting and advisory services to both financial and corporate buyers. With a global network of over 4,000 M&A specialists, clients have access to experienced professionals in all forms of acquisitions, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives, and post transaction and integration activities. Our multi-disciplinary approach teams top-flight M&A professionals, industry specialists and technical experts to provide fact-based answers and independent advice geared to helping clients minimize risk and maximize returns.

Linklaters

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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.

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. 

White & Case LLP

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White & Case is a leading global law firm with 2,464 lawyers in 45 offices across 31 countries. Among the first US-based law firms to establish a truly global presence, we provide counsel and representation in virtually every area of law that affects cross-border business. Our clients value both the breadth of our global network and the depth of our US, English and local law capabilities in each of our regions and rely on us for their complex cross-border transactions, as well as their representation in arbitration and litigation proceedings. To learn more about the Firm, our work on behalf of clients, and points of view from around the world please take a look at our website at www.whitecase.com.

Euclid Transactional

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Euclid Transactional is a market-leading firm specializing in transactional insurance underwriting and claims handling. The firm provides underwriting services for representations and warranties, tax, contingent liability, and other transactional insurance products. We seek to provide best-in-class service for clients, lawyers, and brokers on deal time and with the commercial priorities of our partners in mind.

Euclid Transactional has underwritten over 5,000 policies and insured more than $4.0 trillion in total deal volume — among the most in the industry.

Our claims team — the industry’s largest dedicated team — leverages deep experience on both the underwriting and claims side to drive fair resolutions. Backed by the financial security of our highly-rated insurance carrier partners, we have made over $523 million in claims payments.

With offices New York, London, Toronto, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Chicago, we cover the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with leadership by industry veterans.

EY

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At EY, our purpose is building a better working world. The insights and services we provide help to create long-term value for clients, people and society, and to build trust in the capital markets. Part of that long-term value includes navigating the energy transition as energy enables every aspect of modern life for businesses and consumers. Strategic energy choices can reduce risk, increase operational efficiency, decarbonize operations, and even create revenue opportunities. As companies across all industries increasingly embrace sustainability as a value differentiator, the energy transition will be shaped by new technologies, expanded energy sources, innovative business models and collaborative ecosystems.

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.

Latham & Watkins

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Latham & Watkins delivers innovative solutions to complex legal and business challenges around the world. From a global platform, Latham lawyers advise leading multinationals, boundary-pushing start-ups, and the investors and financial institutions that fuel them. The firm helps clients navigate market-shaping transactions, high-stakes litigation and trials, and sophisticated regulatory matters. Latham is one of the world’s largest providers of pro bono services, steadfastly supports initiatives designed to advance diversity within the firm and the legal profession, and is committed to exploring and promoting environmental sustainability.

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.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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Wilson Sonsini is the firm of choice for companies, investors, and lenders seeking to structure, negotiate, and close groundbreaking transactions in the new energy economy and emerging climate solutions sector. As the newest, nimblest, and most focused projects law practice in the United States, we dedicate ourselves to a single goal: advancing what’s next in the energy industry and decarbonization technologies across economic sectors. Unlike other major law firms, our mission and resources are focused on advancing solutions to build the clean energy economy and address climate change, not fighting against the reality that all major economic sectors need to evolve, decarbonize, and be more efficient. We recognize the imperative—and the opportunities—presented by climate change and want to assist the innovators that will make a decarbonized future cheaper, more transparent, more equitable, and easier to use.

Winston & Strawn, LLP

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Winston & Strawn LLP is a global law firm with 900+ attorneys across 16 offices in Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. Additionally, the firm has significant resources devoted to clients and matters in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The exceptional depth and geographic reach of our resources enable the firm to manage virtually every type of business-related legal issue. We serve the needs of enterprises of all types and sizes, in both the private and the public sectors. We understand that clients are looking for value beyond legal talent. We take time to learn about our clients’ organizations and their business objectives. And we leverage technology and collaborate seamlessly to respond quickly and effectively to our clients’ needs.

Svante

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Svante is a leading carbon capture and removal solutions provider specializing in novel solid sorbents, structured adsorbent filters, and rotary contactor machines for post-combustion carbon capture and direct air capture.

The company’s leading-edge solid sorbent-based technology is environmentally responsible, scalable, and can be applied to heavy industries with hard-to-avoid emissions, including cement, hydrogen, oil & gas, and more.

Svante has developed partnerships across the CCUS value chain to scale the industry and make it easy for customers to execute source-to-sink projects.

Black & Veatch

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With more than 100 years of service, Black & Veatch has helped clients improve the lives of people in more than 100 countries through consulting, engineering, construction, operations and program management.

Black & Veatch’s Smart Integrated Infrastructure business supports the innovations of utilities and cities by establishing the foundation of all smart functions as we bring together physical infrastructure, communication networks and data analytics to infuse intelligence into systems. As a global leader in Critical Human Infrastructure, our technologies boost sustainability, resiliency, efficiency, economic health and cultivate new system-wide intelligence at utilities and along roadways, in cities and beyond.

Fagen, Inc.

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With vision and commitment unsurpassed in the industrial construction field, Fagen, Inc. has evolved from what in 1988 was a small agricultural contractor to what today has become a nationally recognized employee owned construction powerhouse. The company’s standard for quality, safety, and service has led Fagen, Inc. to be consistently listed in the Top 400 in ENR’s largest contractors in the United States. Fagen, Inc. continues to grow and diversify, creating a growing presence in the construction of wind farms, solar farms, and renewable fuels. Specializing in providing full EPC wraps to its client base, the company self performs civil, structural, siding, insulation, millwright, piping, instrumentation, and electrical. Striving to be the construction company most admired by our customers for our people, partnerships, performance and finished product, Fagen, Inc. is ultimately building a better world for tomorrow.

Kirkland & Ellis

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Kirkland & Ellis is an international law firm that serves a broad range of clients around the world in private equity, M&A and other corporate transactions, litigation, white collar and government disputes, restructurings and intellectual property matters. Kirkland offers the highest quality legal advice coupled with extraordinary, tailored service to deliver exceptional results to their clients and help their businesses succeed. They invest in the brightest legal talent and build dynamic teams that operate at the pinnacle of their respective areas. Kirkland believes in empowering their lawyers, encouraging entrepreneurialism, operating ethically and with integrity, and collaborating to bring their best to every engagement. These principles have guided the firm in building successful long-term partnerships with clients since its founding in 1909.

EIC (Energy Industries Council)

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Global CCS Institute

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Low Carbon Fuels Coalition

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SAF + Consortium

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