Transmission & Interconnection Summit

ABOUT THE SUMMIT

Hear How the Newly Announced Transmission NOPR and DOE Funding Drive Grid Expansion to Support the Clean Energy Transition

In response to Federal, state and corporate commitments to clean energy plans, a new era is dawning for transmission development and for the interconnection of renewable energy projects. FERC’s newly announced NOPR looks to drive the most substantial changes seen in decades to transmission planning, cost allocation and funding mechanisms, while an interconnection NOPR likely will follow. The DOE has also developed a plan to reduce barriers to high-voltage transmission projects that includes $20B in funding and a new Building a Better Grid Initiative to implement provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. These are certain to create significant opportunities for investment in regional transmission, for the introduction of advanced technologies to existing networks, and for renewable projects to be more rapidly interconnected to the grid. The transmission market is poised for huge growth—but understanding how these massive changes will play out is essential for nearly every generation developer, grid owner and operator to position themselves to profit under this new regime.

Transmission & Interconnection Summit 2022 will bring together the policymakers, senior executives and leading experts working to reimagine interconnection and transmission planning processes to meet the needs of the clean energy transition. They will address the potential solutions to generation interconnection procedure reforms, optimizing planning processes and more holistically allocating costs based on benefits yielded for both system loads and new generation, including:

How will the move to longer-term planning affect building transmission to serve large amounts of renewable generation development?
How will the expansion of state involvement in regional and local siting processes reduce the time needed to implement transmission projects?
What are the most effective ways to incorporate extreme weather resilience, offshore wind, grid-enhancing technologies and battery storage in transmission planning and operations?
Are reforms needed to improve the coordination between the regional transmission planning and cost allocation and generator interconnection processes?
Could participant funding of interconnection-related network upgrades may be proven to be unjust and unreasonable?

Attend the Transmission & Interconnection Summit 2022 and get the answers you need to fully participate in the remarkable business and investment opportunities of the new era. Review our carefully researched agenda and remarkable faculty and reserve your place today!

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Expert Speakers

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Content-Packed Sessions

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

FERC Regulators
State Regulators
RTOs & ISOs
Utilities
Co-Op G&Ts
Munis
Renewable Developers

Transcos
Consultants
Attorneys
Equipment Vendors
EPCs
Consultants

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Commissioner
Allison Clements
FERC

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Michelle L. Manary
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Energy Resilience Division, Office of Electricity
DOE

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Sandeep Arora
Senior Vice President, Transmission & Markets
REV RENEWABLES, AN LS POWER COMPANY

Girish Behal, PMP
Vice President, Projects and Business Development
NYPA

Noel W. Black
Vice President, Federal Regulatory Affairs
SOUTHERN COMPANY

Ali Chowdhury, PhD, MBA
Vice President – Transmission & Interconnection
8MINUTE SOLAR ENERGY

Jeff Dennis
General Counsel and Managing Director
ADVANCED ENERGY ECONOMY

Rodica Donaldson
Senior Director, Transmission Analytics
EDF RENEWABLES

Brian C. Drumm
Director, Regional Policy and RTO Engagement
ITC HOLDINGS CORP.

Roman Fontes
Senior Investment Officer, Transmission Infrastructure Program
WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION (WAPA)

Kip Fox
President
ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION TEXAS, LLC

Bart Franey
Director of Transmission Business Development, National Grid
NATIONAL GRID

Blan Holman
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
PINE GATE RENEWABLES

Suzanne Leta
Senior Director, Head of Policy and Strategy
SUNPOWER

Neil Millar
Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations Planning
CAISO

Stuart Nachmias
President & CEO
CON EDISON TRANSMISSION, INC.

Matthew Nelson
Chair
MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES

Karen Onaran
Vice President
ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS RESOURCE COUNCIL (ELCON)

Bhaskar Ray
Vice President of Interconnection & Development Engineering and Development
Q CELLS USA CORP.

Ted Thomas
Chair
ARKANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

8minute Solar Energy
Advanced Energy Economy
Alison Silverstein Consulting
Alliant Energy
American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
American Electric Power (AEP)
Ampacimon
Arkansas Public Service Commission
Avangrid Renewables
CAISO
Con Edison Transmission, Inc.
CTC Global
Cypress Creek Renewables
DOE
EDF Renewables
Electric Transmission Texas, LLC
Electricity Consumers Resource Council (ELCON)
Engie
FERC
Fluence
Grid Strategies LLC
ICF International Inc.
Invenergy
ITC Holdings Corp.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP)
Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities
National Grid
Navajo Power
nFront Consulting
Norton Rose Fulbright
NYPA
Office of the People's Counsel for the District of Columbia
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Pattern Energy
Pine Gate Renewables
POWER Engineers
PSEG Long Island
Q Cells USA Corp.
R Street
REV Renewables, an LS Power Company
RTO Insider
ScottMadden
Southern Company
Starwood Energy Group Global, Inc.
SunPower
Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)
World Resources Institute
WPPI Energy

VENUE

Hilton Crystal City at Washington Reagan National Airport
2399 Richmond Highway, Arlington, VA 22202
Phone: (703) 418-6800

Room Rate: $239 per night
Reservation Call In No: (800) 445-8667
Reservation Web Link: Click Here
Cutoff Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Group Name: JTS

**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.**

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event industry came to a halt. After more than a year of putting group gatherings on hold, we are finally able to do the unimaginable: invite you to CONNECT IN PERSON!

Infocast is preparing the Southeast Renewable Energy Summit as a live event experience, and we have new protocols in place so that all individuals onsite – attendees, speakers, sponsors, staff and venue personnel – remain safe and comfortable throughout the event.

Infocast continues to make safety for all those onsite at our events our top priority.

We are facilitating processes that will ensure optimal sanitary conditions in all environments where in-person interaction will take place.

We have established a Safe Networking Environment Program that will include:

All participants, including attendees, exhibitors, speakers, sponsors, and staff will be required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test 72 hours or less prior to arrival.
Face coverings will be required for all participants regardless of their vaccination status. Masks will be provided for anyone who needs one. Although some jurisdictions do not have a mask mandate, our event will require masks to be worn. As an indoor event, we want to ensure safe in-person environment so that all our participants can continue to do business safely.
Temperature checks before entering the event.
Hand sanitizer stations positioned throughout the meeting space. Attendees are encouraged to sanitize their hands frequently and after every meeting.
Meeting rooms will be set up in compliance with the current state distancing and capacity guidelines in North Carolina to ensure you can take part safely in the education sessions, dining options and exhibit room.
Appropriate signage throughout the meeting space to reinforce spatial distancing and other safety reminders. In order to make attendees feel more comfortable, physical distancing when indoors will also be accommodated throughout the event and venue where possible and appropriate.
Regular cleaning protocols. We will work with the venue to confirm it has implemented a comprehensive range of health and safety measures to increase safety standards. Check here for more information.

Confidence that we have created a safe environment is what we seek to provide to our valued participants as we get back to face-to-face events. We want to create a safe, worry-free event so that you can collaborate, network and make valuable connections that will help drive the renewable industry forward.

*Policies are subject to change based on CDC recommendations. Infocast will continue to monitor changes and will comply with CDC, state and local guidelines that are in force at the time of the event.

For more information on NC Department of Health and Human Services policies, please visit:
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