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.

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.

Zero-Emission Grid

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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 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.

Enerzinx

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Enerzinx provides precise consulting services for electrical design and development of renewable energy projects. Enerzinx provides comprehensive services which range from preliminary analysis, equipment modeling, to specialized studies, by using state of the art power system modeling tools for seamless grid integration.

The company was established in February 2014 in Sacramento, CA. Enerzinx moved headquarters to Irving, Texas; with recent addition of two offices in Ottawa, Canada and Melbourne, Australia. Enerzinx has deep and long-standing partnerships with leading developers, generation owners, equipment manufacturers and financial institutions.

Enerzinx has extensive experience with independent system operators such as, PJM, CAISO, ISONE, ERCOT, AEMO, TVA, WAPA, PACIFICORP, SOCO and HECO. The company has quickly grown to become experts in providing technical assistance for various large- and small-scale renewable energy projects across the globe. Enerzinx vision for a carbon free world is proudly motivated by 600+ successful projects across 15 countries and 112 GW modeled.”

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.

Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc.

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Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. is the US subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation responsible for serving the North American power systems, rail transportation and water treatment industries with electrical and electronic products, systems and services. Products include gas circuit breakers, vacuum circuit breakers, power transformers, gas insulated substations, power electronics and electricity transmission technologies, generator services, nuclear power plant control systems, ozone water treatment systems, uninterruptible power supplies, rail transportation equipment, and Diamond Vision video display screens.

Pearl Street Technologies

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Pearl Street Technologies is an interconnection solutions company whose mission is to help expedite the transition to a decarbonized grid. The company’s portfolio includes its software products, Interconnect™ and SUGAR™ (Suite of Unified Grid Analyses with Renewables). Interconnect™ is a customized risk analysis platform for project developers, aiming to provide more certainty throughout the interconnection lifecycle. SUGAR™ is utilized by grid operators and utilities to accelerate study timelines through its robust modeling and simulation capabilities. To date, Pearl Street’s software solutions have been used to model nearly 1,000 renewable generation projects nationwide.

ScottMadden, Inc.

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ScottMadden is the management consulting firm that does what it takes to get it done right. We consult in two main areas—Energy and Corporate & Shared Services. Since 1983, we have served as energy consultants for hundreds of utilities, large and small, including all of the top 20. We focus on Transmission & Distribution, the Grid Edge, Generation, Energy Markets, Rates & Regulation, Enterprise Sustainability, and Corporate Services. Our broad, deep utility expertise is not theoretical—it is experience based. We have helped our clients develop and implement strategies, improve critical operations, reorganize departments and entire companies, and implement myriad initiatives.

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

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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.

Ampacimon

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Ampacimon uses high-end sensors and data analytics to optimize the operation of the world’s most critical energy infrastructure. As a global leader in electricity grid monitoring for overhead lines and underground cables, Ampacimon has deployed the largest number of dynamic line rating systems in the world. Our patented technologies increase the capacity of existing transmission and distribution systems, monitor critical asset health conditions, and identify mechanical and electrical faults of overhead lines.

Advanced Energy United

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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?)

WATT Coalition

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