Southeast Renewable Energy - Presented by Infocast

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

Meet 450+ Policymakers, Utilities and Market Players Who Are Leading the Renewable Buildout in the Southeast

This is the ONLY conference covering this burgeoning market that gets key state policymakers, critical decision makers, and leading utility executives and renewable energy players from the most dynamic states in the region — including North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky — to provide definitive updates on the issues you will need to understand in order to seize the very best opportunities across this explosive region.

This profoundly informative event will delve deeply into:

  • The impacts the IRA is having on project development opportunities and pipelines, as well as financing
  • How utilities across the region plan to convert their decarbonization commitments into clean energy investments and procurements
  • How the lessons learned from winter storm Elliott will be applied to improve regional reliability
  • The roles standalone and co-located storage will play in assuring reliability and resilience
  • How well new interconnection processes and holistic transmission planning are working to ease pressures on queues
  • How supply chain uncertainties and inflationary pressures are affecting power contracting, risk mitigation and project financing
  • The opportunities to develop and power green hydrogen projects
  • ...and more!

In 2022, over 450 regulators, utility executives, renewable energy developers, financiers, and other active participants attended this extraordinarily insightful event. In 2023, we expect a significantly greater attendance. Don’t miss this opportunity to network with and learn from key decision makers, leading players, and your peers about the challenges and opportunities of renewable energy development in this increadibly active market. Please review our remarkable agenda and list of participants and reserve your place today!

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Erin Dolleris Hall
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90

Expert Speakers

Hear from top industry leaders
and market stakeholders

20

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 POLICYMAKERS

 

Shawn Bennett
Director for Clean Energy
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Commissioner Brent Bailey
MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
(invited)

Commissioner Tim Echols
GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Commissioner Karen Kemerait
NORTH CAROLINA UTILITIES COMMISSION

FEATURED SPEAKERS

 

Ying Ayliffe
Director, Origination & Utility Scale Solar
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA)

Jamie Barber
Director, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Unit
GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Cameron Bard
Executive Vice President, Business & Market Development
MADISON ENERGY INVESTMENTS

Angelin Baskaran
Managing Director
MORGAN STANLEY

Laura Beauchamp
Director, Resource Planning and Market Operations
ENTERGY LOUISIANA

Katharine Bond
Vice President, Public Policy, State, and Local Affairs
DOMINION ENERGY

Justin DeAngelis
Partner, Co‑Head Sustainable Infrastructure
DENHAM CAPITAL

Erik Ejups
Associate Director, Origination & Power Marketing
EDF RENEWABLES

Maura Farver
State Energy Policy Director
DUKE ENERGY

Chris Goldsberry
Director of C&I Origination
EDP RENEWABLES

Blan Holman
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
PINE GATE RENEWABLES

Jason Lanclos, P.E.
Director, Technology Assessment Division, State Energy Office
LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Matt Lewis
Manager, Event Analysis and Co-Lead, FERC, NERC, and Regional Entities’ 2022 Winter Storm Elliott Inquiry
NERC

Melinda Montgomery
Senior Director, Engineering & Advanced Analytics
SERC RELIABILITY CORPORATION

Joshua Rogol
President
STRATA CLEAN ENERGY

Ani Rouskova
Managing Partner
EOS CAPITAL ADVISORS

Corey Sellers
General Manager, Transmission Policy & Services / Energy Policy
SOUTHERN COMPANY
Operating Committee
SEEM

Jeff Thomas, PE
Utilities Engineer
NORTH CAROLINA UTILITIES COMMISSION – PUBLIC STAFF

Danny Van Clief
CEO
SUN TRIBE DEVELOPMENT

Mark Webb
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
DOMINION ENERGY

HEAR FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS & EXPERTS

 

  • Apex Clean Energy
  • Beltline Energy
  • Burr & Forman LLP
  • Carolina Solar Energy
  • CHESSA
  • Clean Energy Buyers Association
  • Clean Grid Alliance
  • ClearGen
  • Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President
  • Cypress Creek Renewables
  • Davies Public Affairs
  • Delorean Power
  • Denham Capital
  • Dominion Energy
  • Duke Energy
  • East Point Energy
  • EDF Renewables
  • EDP Renewables
  • Entergy Louisiana
  • EOS Capital Advisors
  • Fractal EMS Inc.
  • Fractal Energy Storage Consultants
  • Georgia Public Service Commission
  • Gulf States Renewable Energy Industry Association
  • Interstate Hydrogen
  • Kentucky Conservation Committee
  • Kentucky Solar Energy Society
  • KY Solar Energy Industries Association
  • Lacuna Sustainable Investments, LLC
  • Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
  • Madison Energy Investments
  • McGuireWoods
  • McGuireWoods Consulting
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Mountain Association
  • Milliken & Co.
  • Mississippi Public Service Commission*
  • NC Clean Energy Technology Center
  • NERC
  • Nexamp
  • North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association
  • North Carolina Utilities Commission - Public Staff
  • Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
  • Origis Energy
  • Parker Poe
  • Pine Gate Renewables
  • Plug Power
  • Radian Generation
  • SB Energy US (SoftBank Group)
  • SEEM
  • SERC Reliability Corporation
  • Silicon Ranch
  • SolSystems
  • SolUnesco
  • Southeastern Wind Coalition
  • Southern Company
  • Southern Environmental Law Center
  • Southern Renewable Energy Association (SREA)
  • Strata Clean Energy
  • Sun Tribe Development
  • TenneSEIA
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • Thompson McMullan, P.C.
  • Total Energies
  • United Community Bank
  • Virginia Renewable Energy Alliance
  • *invited

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

 

  • Utilities
  • Developers
  • G&T’s
  • Co-ops
  • Munis
  • Regulators
  • Corporate Energy Buyers
  • Attorneys
  • Consultants
  • Equipment Providers
  • EPCs
  • Vendors

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS IN 2022

 

  • 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
  • Thompson McMullan, P.C. and Chair of Board, Virginia Renewable Energy Alliance
  • 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
  • Vitis Energy
  • VSUN
  • Wattch
  • Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking
  • Weyerhaeuser
  • Wind Works Power
  • Wood Mackenzie
  • Wood PLC
  • WSP USA
  • Zorya Energy Advisors

VENUE

 

Sheraton Charlotte Hotel
555 S McDowell St, North Tower
Charlotte, NC 28204
Phone: (704) 372-4100

Room Rate: $199
Reservation Call-In No: (704) 372-4100
Reservation Web Link: Click here
Cutoff Date: Monday, November 13, 2023
Group Name: Infocast Southeast Renewable Energy Summit

**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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McGuireWoods LLP

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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.

McGuireWoods Consulting

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McGuireWoods Consulting is a national, full-service public affairs firm serving companies and organizations across industry sectors at the local, state and federal levels. Unlike many public affairs firms with Washington, D.C., offices, we have extensive state-level and national practice teams that complement our strong federal group and allow us to work across all levels of government to optimize results for our clients. We have a broad and diverse array of relationships and contacts with key government officials and agencies, influential former officeholders and staffers, and organizations that impact both public policy and the regulatory process. Our firm also boasts a national infrastructure and economic development team and a national strategic communications and advocacy team, both of which also serve a full-spectrum of clients. McGuireWoods Consulting is proud to possess the ability to tap the vast knowledge of our McGuireWoods’ attorneys – a unique, potent combination that few firms can match.

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.

Burr & Forman LLP

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For more than a century, Burr & Forman LLP’s experienced legal team has served clients at the intersection of business and government. With over 350 attorneys across Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, Burr & Forman draws from a diverse range of industry experience and practice knowledge to help clients address their legal needs and achieve their goals. Our lawyers work with clients in the renewable energy industry on corporate, economic development, tax, real estate, environmental, and regulatory issues. Our renewable energy team is experienced in dealing with projects throughout the United States related to solar, wind, biofuels and biomass, synthetic fuels, hydrogen fuel cells, natural gas technologies, and nuclear energy.

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.

Fractal EMS

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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

LandGate

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LandGate is the leading provider of information, data solutions, and an online marketplace for US commercial land resources: solar, wind, carbon, oil & gas, minerals, and water. The company helps landowners, real estate agents, investors, and developers understand energy and environmental resource values and transact on its online marketplace. LandGate’s platform applies its technology to provide deals, leads, data, analytics, and web apps to substantially reduce investors costs.

LandGate has a differentiated product advantage built on highly automated data tasks and the digitization of land resource valuations. The network effect builds with landowners and real estate agents who can easily list land resources for lease or sale on the online marketplace. It also provides a cost advantage for energy and environmental investors/developers who can more efficiently access deals.

Parker Poe

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Parker Poe’s Energy Team guides clients through project development and finance, regulatory compliance and investigations, and joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions. We are experienced before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and state utility commissions in the Southeast.

Our clients include independent power producers, renewable energy developers (solar PV, solar thermal, wind, fuel cell, biomass, biogas, and geothermal), commercial and industrial energy consumers, universities, financial institutions, tax equity investors, engineering, procurement, and construction companies, electric and gas utilities, and electric cooperatives. We approach each project like our clients do: collaborating and assembling the skill sets needed to accomplish the task effectively and efficiently.

Pathward

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Pathward, N.A. is a U.S.-based financial empowerment company driven by its purpose to power financial inclusion for all™. Pathward strives to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity across our Banking as a Service and Commercial Finance business lines. The strategic business lines provide end-to-end support to individuals and businesses.

Pathward’s Commercial Finance division, formerly known as Crestmark and AFS/IBEX, provides business-to-business financial products including asset-based lending, accounts receivable financing, equipment leasing/financing, structured financing (including SBA and USDA lending) and insurance premium financing. In fact, the USDA recognized Pathward as the top OneRD program lender in FY2021. With representatives across the country and a Canadian foreign representative office, Pathward helps industries nationwide including manufacturing, staffing, renewable energy, insurance, transportation, distribution, construction, and IT/technology. Learn more about Pathward and how we help deliver a better financial future with forward-thinking solutions at Pathward.com.

Radian Generation

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Radian Generation was founded on the core principle of driving sustainable growth by providing best-in-class asset
management solutions for the renewable energy industry. And since that day, Radian Generation has continued to
spearhead the creation of industry-leading asset management thought leadership and best practices to efficiently
manage, optimize and de-risk energy assets to support predictable returns. During the formative years of the solar and
wind market, the experiences accumulated by members of our team fostered an acute awareness of the need for
versatility, continuity, and resiliency in a third-party business model for managing projects expected to last for decades.

As the energy grid continues to evolve in unpredictable ways, professional, 24/7 asset management services are needed
more than ever to ensure the uninterrupted operation of power-generating assets. That is why Radian Generation built
its business around maintaining energy assets as critical infrastructure, with a keen focus on optimization and
performance.

Origis Services

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Origis Services delivers the promise of clean energy with operations and maintenance (O&M) services for solar and energy storage across North America. The team manages a diverse utility scale and distributed generation portfolio with experienced professionals backed by a state-of-the-art NERC CIP Compliant Remote Operations Center (ROC) located at its headquarters in Austin, Texas. Visit us at: www.OrigisServices.com

United Community Bank

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United Community Bank provides a full range of banking, wealth management and mortgage services for relationship-oriented consumers and business owners. United has $18.9 billion in assets and 162 offices in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee along with a national SBA lending franchise and a national equipment lending subsidiary. Known as “The Bank That SERVICE Built,” United has been recognized nationally for delivering award-winning service. In 2021, J.D. Power ranked United highest in customer satisfaction with retail banking in the Southeast, marking seven out of the last eight years United earned the coveted award. United was also named one of the “Best Banks to Work For” by American Banker in 2020 for the fourth year in a row based on employee satisfaction. Forbes recognized United on its 2021 list of the 100 Best Banks in America for the eighth consecutive year. Additional information about United can be found at www.ucbi.com.

Blue Ridge Power

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Blue Ridge Power is a full-service EPC company for renewable energy projects across the United States. The company offers integrated engineering, a qualified professional labor force and an expansive fleet of equipment to serve the needs of its clients looking for a turnkey solution for solar and solar + storage projects. Blue Ridge Power was formed to create a best-in-class company that is a leader in the solar industry.

Blue Ridge Power has built a total of 6GW of projects and, in 2021 alone, the company constructed and completed 1.5GW of projects across the Carolinas, Georgia, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Headquartered in Asheville, NC, Blue Ridge Power has deep relationships working with utility partners and vendors, relying on experience and dedication to get the job done right.

Balch & Bingham

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Balch & Bingham represents electric utilities, independent power producers and investment funds that focus on a wide-variety of energy transactions and infrastructure development, where renewable energy is playing an increasingly vital role. The firm’s practice extends to each of the Regional Transmission Organization regions of the U.S., from New York to California. Our practice also covers the Southeast and Northwest regions.

Balch is frequently engaged by significant energy participants as counsel in all phases of the development and operation of renewable generation and battery storage projects, including EPC contracts, tax strategies, offtake agreements, FERC approvals, RTO requirements, mergers and acquisitions, interconnection, state regulatory approvals and environmental matters.

With a nearly 100-year legacy of service to the electric industry, Balch includes a team of 200+ attorneys throughout the Southeast, Texas and Washington, D.C., who remain committed to helping the next generation of industry participants prepare for and build a sustainable future.

EDP Renewables North America

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At EDPR NA Distributed Generation (EDPR NA DG), accelerating the adoption and success of distributed generation is at the core of our mission. EDPR NA DG provides cutting edge innovative renewable energy services to the entire North American region. Built on long-standing relationships with developers, power generators, corporate purchasers, municipalities and local communities, EDPR NA DG delivers a full suite of offerings ranging from financing and development to construction and operation of energy and storage assets poised to scale. To date, EDPR NA DG has an operating capacity of 88 MW, with a near-term pipeline of more than 200 MW, across 200 sites in 20 states. EDPR NA DG is part of EDP Renewables (Euronext: EDPR), a global leader in the renewable energy sector and the world’s fourth-largest renewable energy producer.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited

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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited (“SuMi TRUST”) engages in the trust and banking businesses globally. It provides financial services, such as syndicated loans, real estate finance, project finance, asset finance, M&A finance, and asset securitization arrangements. Founded in 1925 and HQ in Tokyo, Japan, SuMi TRUST has an AUM of $1.1 trillion and more than 13,000 employees across its 150 domestic and 10 overseas offices. It has a total loan balance of $275 billion and manages app. 1,300 corporate pension funds.

The Structured Finance Department at SuMi TRUST has financed more than 400 projects globally, third of which were arranged by us, with a total commitment of $15 billion. We are active in the renewable space and have financed more than 200 renewable projects thus far. Our project finance portfolio in the Americas includes over two dozen wind and solar projects. We provide construction and term financing, green loans, warehouse facilities, bridge financing, LCs, SWAP etc. We look to forge deep relationships with our customers and provide support with bespoke solutions.

FORVIS, LLP

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FORVIS, LLP is an integrated professional services firm with a global reach and a passion to drive businesses forward. The firm’s 6,000 dedicated team members provide an Unmatched Client Experience® through the delivery of assurance, tax, and consulting services in all 50 states and internationally. Ranked among the largest public accounting firms in the United States, FORVIS upholds an unwavering purpose to help those we serve unlock their full potential—including our people, our clients, and our communities. Visit forvis.com/energy to learn more.

Mangum Economics

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Mangum Economics is a leader in providing comprehensive assessments of the economic and fiscal consequences of proposed development projects, policies, and other initiatives. The Mangum Team specializes in producing objective, defensible, and actionable quantitative economic research. Our priority is empowering our clients with the information needed to make strategic decisions in a variety of industries and environments. We know that one size does not fit all and have a well-earned reputation for working with clients on an individual basis, taking into consideration the unique requirements of their goals and objectives.

Few firms have the depth and breadth of experience that the Mangum Team has developed within the renewable energy space. To date, Mangum Economics has produced economic impact reports for solar, wind, energy storage, and hydro projects spanning twenty states with a combined total generation capacity of more than 23 GW.

Solar4America

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Solar4America is a premium solar panel US manufacturer, located in Sacramento, CA. We manufacture a variety of American-made solar panels for residential, commercial, and utility projects. We have been investing extensively in state-of-the-art equipment, technologies and teams in the U.S. which enable us to provide great local customer services and warranties to our customers.

CHESSA

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Clean Grid Alliance

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Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association (GSREIA)

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The Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association (GSREIA) represents Solar and Renewable Energy firms throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in matters of policy, regulation, and public relations. GSREIA is a non-profit, open-membership trade association with an elected board and officers, advocating to benefit the region’s economy and environment.

NC Clean Energy Technology Center

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NC Sustainable Energy Association

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The NC Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA) is​ a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization of individuals, businesses, government, and nonprofits interested in North Carolina's sustainable energy future. Our mission is to drive policy and market development to create clean energy jobs, economic opportunities and affordable energy that benefits all of North Carolina.

Southeastern Wind Coalition

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Southern Renewable Energy Association

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TenneSEIA

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Virginia Renewable Energy Alliance (VA-REA)

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