Transmission & Interconnection Summit - Presented by Infocast

June 25 - 27, 2024
Hilton Arlington National Landing
Arlington, VA

A New Era of Transmission Expansion Begins: Supporting the IRA-Accelerated Energy Transition

The urgent need to integrate the enormous wave of renewables now entering queues is driving massive opportunities to invest in both upgrading the current grid and building new regional and interregional lines. At the same time, however, a series of profound reforms are underway, affecting interconnection, regional and interregional planning, cost allocation, permitting, the use of advanced technology, reliability, multi-state cooperation, and other critical aspects. A detailed understanding of how these reforms are being designed and their impacts in the real world will be essential to assure the success of investors, transmission owners/operators, and a wide range of power industry stakeholders, including developers of new renewable generation.

Infocast has organized this Transmission & Interconnection Summit 2024 to provide the most up-to-date and detailed analysis of these new dynamics as they impact the entire power sector. The 2024 event will continue Infocast’s decades-long tradition of bringing together the critical policymakers, senior executives, senior stakeholders, and leading industry experts who are actively at the forefront of the efforts to meet the needs of the clean energy transition.

These active market participants will provide uniquely deep dives into key topics including:

  • Where do FERC Order No. 2023 implementation efforts stand in RTO/ISO regions and regulated markets, and how will the interconnection of existing and new clean energy projects be affected?
  • What impacts are cluster studies and multi-benefit planning having on identifying and justifying tens of billions of dollars in transmission to enhance reliability, enable the addition of vast amounts of clean energy assets, and reduce congestion and fuel costs?
  • How can utilities, munis, co-ops and other transmission investors take advantage of DOE’s GRIP (Grid Resilience and Innovations Partnerships), other grant and loan guarantee programs?
  • What impacts will DOE’s CITAP (Coordinated Interagency Transmission Authorization and Permit Program) and IP2X programs have on speeding interconnection and transmission permitting processes?
  • Can the progress being made in states cooperating on system upgrades and cost allocation to incorporate offshore wind be more broadly applied to onshore projects?
  • What are the most effective ways to incorporate Advanced Transmission Technologies and Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) in transmission planning and operations?
  • Strategies for dealing with increasing supply chain constraints and their impacts on schedules
  • New approaches to developing less labor-intensive approaches to areas where personnel are heavily constrained, including interconnection studies, engineering designs, commissioning, construction, and more

Attend Transmission & Interconnection Summit 2024 — after over 20 years, still the only event focusing on the business and business environment of transmission asset investment and development — and get the answers you need to fully participate in the remarkable investment opportunities of the new era. Reserve your place today!

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60

Expert Speakers

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and market stakeholders

18

Content-Packed Sessions

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exclusive insights and updates

Premier Networking

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SUMMIT AGENDA

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

 

Ali Amirali
Senior Vice President
LOTUS INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS

Noel Augustine
Director, Transmission & Interconnection Planning
SB ENERGY US

Johnny Casana
Strategy Director, North America
PATTERN ENERGY

Ali Chowdhury, PhD, MBA, PE
Senior Vice President – Transmission
AVANTUS

Cynthia Crane
Manager, MISO Regulatory Strategy
ITC

Maura Farver
State Energy Policy Director
DUKE ENERGY

Larry Gasteiger
Executive Director
WIRES

Rob Gramlich
President
GRID STRATEGIES LLC

Mario Hayden
Director, Transmission
ENEL NORTH AMERICA

Gregory E. Mathe
Manager, Electric Transmission Communications and Engagement
DOMINION ENERGY

Caitlin Marquis
Managing Director
ADVANCED ENERGY UNITED

Neil Millar
Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations Planning
CAISO

Stuart Nachmias
President & CEO
CON EDISON TRANSMISSION, INC.

Denis Obiang
Director of Power Planning
LADWP

Joseph Rand
Energy Policy Researcher
LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY

Bhaskar Ray
VP of Interconnection & Development Engineering
Q CELLS USA CORP.

Kathleen Staks
Board Chair
COLORADO ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AUTHORITY

Emile C. Thompson
Chairman
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Preethy Thangaraj
Senior Policy Advisor, Energy & Environment
NEW JERSEY OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

Kris Zadlo
Chief Development Officer
GRID UNITED

HEAR FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS & EXPERTS

 

  • Advanced Energy United
  • Americans for a Clean Energy Grid
  • Avantus
  • CAISO
  • Colorado Electric Transmission Authority
  • Con Edison Transmission, Inc.
  • CPUC
  • DNV
  • Dominion Energy
  • Duke Energy
  • Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment
  • EDF Renewables NA
  • Enel North America
  • Engie
  • FERC
  • Grid Strategies LLC
  • Grid United
  • Independent Energy Producers Association
  • Invenergy
  • ITC
  • LADWP
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Lotus Infrastructure Partners
  • New Jersey Office of the Governor
  • Pattern Energy
  • Pine Gate Renewables
  • PSEG
  • Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia
  • Q CELLS USA Corp.
  • SB Energy US (SoftBank Group)
  • Sol Systems
  • WATT Coalition
  • WIRES

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

 

  • FERC Regulators
  • State Regulators
  • RTOs & ISOs
  • Utilities
  • Co-Op G&Ts
  • Munis
  • Renewable Developers
  • Transmission Owners & Operators
  • Consultants
  • Attorneys
  • Equipment Vendors
  • EPCs

PAST PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

 

Transmission Owners

  • American Electric Power (AEP)
  • Apex Clean Energy
  • Cleco
  • Con Edison Transmission, Inc.
  • Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Bismarck, ND
  • Duke Energy
  • Electric Transmission Texas, LLC
  • Eversource Energy
  • Hydro Quebec
  • IPL / AES Indiana
  • ITC Holdings Corp.
  • Liberty Utilities
  • Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP)
  • LS Power
  • National Grid
  • New York Power Authority
  • Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.
  • Portland General Electric
  • PPL
  • PSE
  • PSEG Long Island
  • Puget Sound Energy
  • SDG&E
  • Southern Company
  • Tennessee Valley Authority
  • Transource Energy, LLC
  • WPPI Energy
  • Xcel Energy

Gov't & Regulators

  • Arkansas Public Service Commission
  • DOE
  • FERC
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities
  • PA PUC

ISOs & RTOs

  • Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)
  • PJM Interconnection
  • ERCOT
  • SPP
  • CAISO
  • ISO-NE
  • NYISO

Renewable Developers & IPPs

  • Avantus
  • AES Corporation
  • Alliant Energy
  • Altec
  • Avangrid
  • Cypress Creek Renewables
  • EDF Renewables NA
  • ENEL Green Power
  • Engie North America
  • Geenex Solar LLC
  • Heelstone Renewable Energy
  • Invenergy
  • Longroad Energy
  • Nexamp
  • NextEra Energy
  • OCI Solar Power
  • Onyx Renewable Partners
  • Pattern Energy
  • Pine Gate Renewables
  • Primergy Solar
  • Q CELLS USA Corp.
  • Repsol Renewables
  • RES
  • REV Renewables, an LS Power Company
  • RWE Renewables
  • SB Energy US (SoftBank Group)
  • Southern Current LLC
  • Southern Power Company
  • SunEnergy1
  • SUNPOWER CORPORATION
  • Tenaska, Inc.
  • TotalEnergies
  • UKA North America LLC
  • Ulteig
  • Urban Grid

Customers

  • CleanArc Data Centers
  • Electricity Consumers Resource Council (ELCON)
  • Grid Strategies LLC

Financiers

  • Leyline Renewable Capital, LLC
  • Starwood Energy Group Global, Inc.
  • Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)

2023 RECAP

 

300+

Attendees

65

Expert Speakers

20

Sessions
Premier Networking

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Hilton Arlington National Landing
2399 Richmond Highway
Arlington, VA 22202

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Cutoff Date: Monday, June 3, 2024
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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.

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.

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.

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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WATT Coalition

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RTO Insider

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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?)

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