Storage Week Plus - Presented by Infocast

 

Now Coming November 2020

  • Join a Who’s Who of Policymakers, Developers, Utilities, and Financiers
    Leading the Storage Boom!

    Event Rescheduled

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update:
The safety and experience of Infocast attendees are our top priority. In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) — following the guidance from the CDC, WHO, and other health authorities — we have decided to reschedule this event to ensure our attendees will be able to enjoy a truly useful interaction. Exact date and location to be published shortly.

Storage Week Plus 2020 will take a deep dive into value engineering and structuring storage projects, and explore the emergent use cases, business models, and technological approaches leading companies are pursuing to capture huge near-term deployment opportunities.

Join a who’s who of policymakers, utility and other customers, renewable energy and storage developers, and the financiers leading the burgeoning growth of storage to gain invaluable insights into:

  • The latest on emerging state policies and FERC Order 841 rules, and their impacts on storage markets
  • Major new procurements: emergency resilience RFO, CPUC capacity shortage, NY & NV initiatives
  • Prospects for deployment of non-lithium storage technologies
  • What is driving the procurement decisions of utilities and CCAs
  • Value engineering of storage systems to best provide firming, RA, capacity, ancillary services and other products and services
  • Identifying best practices in storage project contracting and finance

Plus, gain access to both pre-conference Executive Briefings to learn more about the hottest trends in storage:

Safety in Storage Systems takes a deep dive into applying emerging new safety codes, standards and best practices, including sensor and suppression technologies, to ensure the ongoing viability of stationary ESS.

Storage for Resilience will explore how the need to increase resilience for utilities, C&I customers and residential customers is driving the deployment of grid-connected, microgrid and rooftop solar + storage systems in unprecedented numbers.

Featured Speakers

Sponsors

 
 

Supporting Organizations

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Ali Amirali

STARWOOD ENERGY GROUP GLOBAL, LLC

 

Raj Apte

THE MOONSHOT FACTORY

Ani Backa

SONNEN, INC.

Dan Cary

MACQUARIE CAPITAL (USA) INC.

Holly Christie

HECATE ENERGY

Commissioner Tim Echols

GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Mark A. Frigo

RWE RENEWABLES

Mike Gravely

CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION

Terron Hill

NATIONAL GRID

Bryan Hoffman

DUKE ENERGY

Anne Hoskins

SUNRUN, INC.

Adrienne Lalle

CONSOLIDATED EDISON

Rebecca Dayhuff Matsushima

HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC

Hugh McDermott

ESS INC

Kirsten Petersen, P.E.

SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC

Commissioner Liane M. Randolph

CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (CPUC)

JP Ross

EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY

Jeremy Twitchell

PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY (PNNL)

Bryan Urban

LECLANCHÉ

Catherine E. Von Burg

SIMPLIPHI POWER, INC.

Wilson Sonsini

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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.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

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As they navigate the emerging opportunities, risks, and complexities of regulation and competition, our clients have access to a legal team capable of addressing regulatory, commercial, transactional, and litigation matters simultaneously. We help clients anticipate and negotiate complex regulatory issues in the areas of transmission development and operations, reliability and cybersecurity, regional markets, compliance and enforcement, audits and investigations, and corporate restructuring alternatives. We assist clients with the development and pricing for new transmission facilities and handle complicated business, regulatory, and operational issues inherent in facility and corporate entity sales, spin-offs, and transfers of control, as well as the corresponding transmission cost allocation disputes. Every transaction is supported across disciplines by our corporate, regulatory, tax, environmental, and antitrust lawyers. While it is our goal to help clients avoid litigation wherever possible, our cross-office team collaborates to litigate high-stakes commercial and regulatory disputes in the major US and international venues.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

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Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm and powerhouse in the project finance market. Its projects group did $211 billion in 448 significant transactions in the last five years. It works in some capacity for most of the major developers who are active in the US market. It is also a prominent thought leader. Its Project Finance NewsWire goes to more than 81,000 people. Issues back 26 years can be found on the firm’s website. Its Currents podcast has had more than three million downloads in five years. Its periodic live podcasts on topical subjects draw 2,000 to 6,000 people for the live sessions and thousands of downloads for the recordings.

Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe

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Orrick is a leading global law firm advising pioneers in energy transition, energy tech and infrastructure modernization on their ambitious decarbonization projects. With a team of 150+ energy lawyers, we support the entire life cycle of a renewables project, including all aspects of joint ventures and M&A, project finance, project development, procurement and regulatory. In the past two years alone, we have closed 250 transactions involving 135+ GW of solar, storage, wind and offshore wind capacity.

Our top tier tax equity team is at the cutting edge of the market experienced with every structure and complexity. Following the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), we have advised on one of the first tax equity financings for a standalone battery storage project, the first tax equity investment in carbon capture equipment, the first hydrogen projects taking advantage of expanded tax credits, and dozens of tax credit transfers. Learn more about Orrick’s practice, market insights and client results here.

Troutman Sanders LLP

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The energy industry is a key vertical and center of excellence at Troutman Sanders. We have been recognized as a “National Top-Tier” Energy Practice for eight consecutive years and received the 2020 “Law Firm of the Year” distinction for Energy Law in U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” edition, and our renewable energy practice has won nationwide recognition in the Chambers USA and The Legal 500 guides. We provide top legal advice to independent power producers, developers, lenders, utilities, industrial and government clients in energy-related businesses in the U.S. and internationally. We have extensive transactional, financing and regulatory experience in the electric power (including renewable energy), natural gas and water industries. The firm can bring to bear top transactional and regulatory practitioners in order to maximize the value of transactions in the heavily regulated energy space.

UL Solutions

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Sustainability goals, declining costs, and technological advancements have made renewable energy the fastest growing sector of the energy market. UL’s global expertise in energy and asset advisory services, due diligence, testing and certification, and software applications in solar, wind and offshore wind provides the expertise you need for product or project certification, early-stage feasibility and design, project development and financing, managing operational wind and solar projects, to extending the life of those projects. Having assessed over 300 GW of renewable energy projects, we have worked with customers across all continents, in all kinds of complex terrain and climate regimes. From small-scale microgrid systems of solar and storage that bring energy closer to a remote village, to complex utility-scale wind and solar farms that power corporations and cities, UL can help support your project anywhere around the globe.

EPC Power

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EPC Power is a San Diego (Poway, CA) USA based manufacturer and designer of grid forming bi-directional inverters and DCDC converters for solar, wind, flywheel, automotive, and alternative fueled generators. EPC Power is a power electronics OEM of grid connected and heavy automotive equipment. With over 100 MW deployed in the field, product sizes range from 30kW to over 10MW. EPC designs and manufactures fully functional microgrid, energy storage, automotive, DCDC converter power electronic technologies that enable OEMs and system integrators to accelerate beyond their competition. Manufactured in the USA.

Rhombus Energy Solutions

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Rhombus develops and manufactures bi-directional electric vehicle charging systems, high-efficiency power conversion systems and energy management system (EMS) software for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capable electric vehicle fleet charging, energy storage and microgrid applications. The high reliability of our solutions is the result of decades of experience developing high-power systems for a variety of applications and deployment scenarios, including UL-1741-SA system-to-grid solutions. For more information, please visit www.RhombusEnergy.com

Power Association of Northern California (PANC)

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SunSpec Alliance

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The SunSpec Alliance is a trade alliance of developers, manufacturers, and service providers, together pursuing information standards for the distributed energy industry. SunSpec standards address most operational aspects of PV and other distributed energy power plants on the smart grid—including residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems—thus reducing cost, promoting innovation, and accelerating industry growth. Nearly 100 organizations are members or business partners of the SunSpec Alliance, including global leaders from Asia, Europe, and North America. Membership is open to corporations, non-profits, and individuals. For more information about the SunSpec Alliance, or to download SunSpec specifications free of charge, please visit our website.

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