Transmission & Interconnection Summit

Enverus

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Enverus Power & Renewables brings clean, analytics-ready data into an intuitive platform, empowering you to get straight to higher-value analysis and insights. Whether you are seeking historical data to assess the profitability of new power project opportunities, or you are a seasoned power trader utilizing financial hedging instruments, Enverus supplies essential data and analytics for the power and renewables space.

ICF

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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.

Nira Energy

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Nira is a software platform built to help developers and interconnection teams reduce risk throughout the project development process. Our map-based tool displays injection capacity data at substations across the US, and our portfolio management tool allows users to estimate costs for actively queued projects. We currently support more than 70 of the largest developers across the US.

With Nira, developers access comprehensive injection studies specific to each market, perform sensitivity analysis, and review cost estimates to optimize and de-risk the interconnection process. Nira’s customers move faster and manage larger development pipelines with higher success rates.

Founded in 2021 as the original provider of injection capacity results at scale, Nira continues to innovate and remain the market leader. Nira’s leading power systems experts and world-class software engineers are united by the goal of equipping project developers and interconnection engineers with tools to revolutionize their ability to quickly and economically decarbonize the power grid.

RMS Energy

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At RMS Energy, we specialize in providing comprehensive power system consulting services to ensure reliability, efficiency, and sustainability in energy solutions. With a team of experienced professionals and cutting-edge technology, we deliver unparalleled expertise in power system planning, engineering, and strategic studies. Our T&D Engineering and Consulting team covers areas such as System Planning, Generator Interconnection, Renewable Energy Interconnection, Regulatory Compliance, Strategic and Economic, and Electromagnetic Transients (EMT) studies to support Independent System Operators (ISO), Regional Transmission Organizations (RTO), utilities, Independent Power Producers (IPP), developers, and load connecting facilities, such are large Commercial & Industrial (C&I) organizations.

Zero-Emission Grid, LLC

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Zero-Emission Grid (ZEG) is a leading engineering advisory firm with unparalleled expertise in various technical and regulatory aspects of grid interconnection and market analytics. Driven by values of accessibility, accountability, integrity, collaboration, and expertise, our services encompass onshore/offshore generation, transmission, and large load development. These include grid siting, sizing, nodal and zonal market analytics, interconnection applications, modeling, system impact studies, technical due diligence, technology selection, design, and NERC/ISO compliance. Our flagship cloud-based software, the Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Siting Tool (REST™), is utilized by project developers, investors, and IPPs across all North American markets. REST™ offers robust, customizable, and actionable insights on power grid and market outlook, optimizing project development, minimizing interconnection-related uncertainties and assisting in making informed techno economical decisions through various milestones of the interconnection process.

Akin

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Akin is a leading global law firm providing innovative legal services and business solutions to individuals and institutions. Our Chambers-ranked projects & energy transition practice is a market leader in renewable energy. For more than 75 years, Akin has been at the forefront of some of the energy industry’s most transformational transactions. Today, we work with clients as they seek to decarbonize and invest in the energy transition. We are on the cutting edge of new technologies, transactions, and structures in the energy sector. Our full-service, cross-disciplinary team advises clients on some of the most complex, challenging, and innovative projects

We represent the full spectrum of sector participants in the development, financing, operation, acquisition and disposition of renewable energy projects and companies. The Akin team provides integrated, seamless support on every aspect of renewable energy and energy transition transactions including regulatory guidance, navigating intricate tax credits and new investment opportunities driven by the Inflation Reduction Act. We have industry-leading experience with solar, wind, battery storage, and all of the key sustainable technologies powering the transition.

DNV

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DNV is a leading independent assurance and risk management company. We provide clients with advice and market insights, services, certification, and advanced digital solutions grounded in deep engineering and technical expertise that help them seize opportunities and tackle risks arising from the energy transition. This includes averting a climate crisis and ensuring an equitable, sustainable energy future. Our experts empower customers across the energy value chain to de-risk, decarbonize, maximize value, and safeguard life, property, and the environment. We are also leading by example, with a bold ambition to become a carbon positive company.

Electric Power Engineers

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A leader in grid reliability and resiliency, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe for over 50 years. EPE’s client-centric approach delivers unmatched expertise throughout the project lifecycle, with a platform of comprehensive services and proprietary solutions spanning utility engineering, grid and resource integration, reliability and compliance, digitalization, and grid analytics, as well as innovative software solutions with ENER-i.AI. Committed to designing and developing the grid of the future, EPE’s highly experienced team of detail-oriented consultants are passionate about helping clients address complex engineering and grid modeling challenges, bridge gaps, and gain visibility into the evolving complexities of the grid. Learn more about EPE at epeconsulting.com.

Nixon Peabody

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At Nixon Peabody, we create positive impact for our clients, our communities, our people, and our firm. We deliver exceptional service, building and preserving trust while fostering a culture of collaboration, respect, and diversity. Deep industry knowledge, experience, and entrepreneurial spirit fuel creative solutions to the most complex legal problems. And our shared humanity drives our passion for helping others and connects us to our clients and each other.

POWER Engineers

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Do good. Have fun. Build success. This approach has helped POWER Engineers complete hundreds of exciting and memorable projects with our clients over the past 46 years. Your challenges today with keeping up with the ongoing changes in our industry are why we’re at Infocast Transmission & Interconnection Summit. As an international engineering consulting firm for the energy industry, we bring strength, depth and expertise to utilities and developers facing system upgrades, decarbonization goals or unique system performance issues.

Advanced Energy United

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Advanced Energy United educates, engages, and advocates for policies that allow our member companies to compete to repower our economy with 100% clean energy. We work with decision makers at every level of government as well as regulators of energy markets to achieve this goal. The businesses we represent are lowering consumer costs, creating millions of new jobs, and providing the full range of clean, efficient, and reliable energy and transportation solutions. Together, we are united in our mission to accelerate the transition to 100% clean energy in the United States. Advanced Energy United is online at AdvancedEnergyUnited.org and @AdvEnergyUnited.

Black & Veatch Global Advisory

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Black & Veatch is an employee-owned consulting, engineering, procurement, and construction company with a 100-year legacy of innovation in sustainable infrastructure.

Our global professionals include experienced industry executives, senior analysts, and technology experts from across the electric, water, oil, natural gas and technology industries. This experience, combined with seamless access to the company’s professional engineering, procurement, construction and operations capabilities, executives, and internationally respected subject matter experts, makes Black & Veatch particularly qualified to assist clients with their most complex challenges. Over the past 5 years, our Transaction Advisory team has supported over $100 billion in transactions and completed over 500 engagements involving various projects and companies. We were also recognized as the #1 Technical Advisor by Deal Count in 2020 by the Inframation Group.

HData

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HData is an all-in-one regulatory solution that combines data, AI, and automation to power compliance, analytics, and intelligence capabilities that make energy professionals’ work far easier to do. Whether filing compliance reports, analyzing a peer group, or deciding on rate case testimony, HData eliminates hours of manual labor and eases collaboration, empowering crucial decision making in a transitioning energy industry. Over 40 leading energy companies and state governments use HData to file, research, analyze, and decide, using millions of regulatory data points and documents. Visit www.hdata.us to learn more.

INS Engineering

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The Megawatt Group

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The Megawatt Group connects forward-thinking, U.S.-based solar buyers with the top Tier-1 Module manufacturers in the world. Every day we put our resources, expertise and access to work for our clients. From helping EPCs streamline procurement to giving overseas manufacturers a foothold in the US market, we strive to help our partners – and the solar industry itself – thrive.

Advanced Energy United

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Americans for a Clean Energy Grid

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RTO Insider LLC

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RTO Insider™ is your eyes and ears on the organized electric markets, putting you “inside the room” at PJM Interconnection, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE and SPP. We provide independent, objective coverage and analysis of the wholesale electric industry’s markets and policymaking, saving you time and ensuring you don’t miss the issues most important to your interests.

Features include:

• Coverage of key RTO/ISO committee, subcommittee and task force meetings. We’ll be there when you can’t.
• Coverage of news events impacting the industry throughout the 35 states managed by the RTOs/ISOs.
• Coverage of state and federal regulatory (FERC, EPA) & legislative news affecting RTO/ISO stakeholders.
• Issue Briefs: Concise summaries of major issues (e.g., Order 1000, EPA’s 111(d) rule).

What RTO Insider isn’t: We are not advocates or representatives. You can trust that our coverage will not be slanted to the interests of any member or membership sector.

What RTO Insider is: A source for both the big picture (e.g. analyses of major FERC rulings and RTO stakeholder developments) and the details (why is Manual 28 being changed and what does that mean to me?)