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NPM's DG & Data Center Development Forum comes to NYC October 2026.
This year’s forum builds on the legacy of NPM’s DG Development & Finance Forum, which, to date, has brought together over 750 attendees, 50% of whom were developers and IPPs, and has featured 80+ senior-level industry-leading speakers.
The DG & Data Center Development Forum expands its focus to explore how Distributed Generation developers & onsite power providers are adapting & recapitalizing to address rapid electrification demand.
Join us in New York for our opening drinks reception on October 21, followed by a full-day conference on October 22 2026.
Contact us today for partnership and speaking opportunities!
The DG & Data Center Development Forum expands its focus to explore how Distributed Generation developers & onsite power providers are adapting & recapitalizing to address rapid electrification demand.
Join us in New York for our opening drinks reception on October 21, followed by a full-day conference on October 22 2026.
Contact us today for partnership and speaking opportunities!
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Jim Alderson Smith is a Managing Director and leads Crux’s Industry Coverage team. Jim is responsible for efforts to source, educate, and provide support to clean energy developers and manufacturers across their tax credit sales, tax equity raises, and other capital needs. Jim leverages his prior experience developing renewable energy projects and sourcing tax equity to guide his team’s work and support clients as they enter new, complex markets. Jim has led many of the largest transactions facilitated on the Crux platform.
Prior to joining Crux, Jim worked at Onyx Renewable Partners as a Senior Vice President of Business and Project Development. Jim holds a Masters of Engineering from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Wharton.
Bryen Alperin joined Foss & Company in November of 2017 and became a shareholder in 2023. As Managing Director, Mr. Alperin leads all aspects of the investment, origination, and asset management process for renewable energy and sustainability funds. Prior to joining Foss & Company, Mr. Alperin worked in commercial banking and led debt financing for a broad range of middle market businesses and commercial projects. Mr. Alperin earned his BA in Economics magna cum laude from the University of California, Davis, and has an Executive Certification in Sustainable Capitalism & ESG from the University of California, Berkeley. He is based out of our Denver office.
Claire Behar joined Foss & Company as Vice President of Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technologies, where she leads the origination and structuring of renewable energy tax equity and transfer credit transactions while fostering strategic relationships with project developers. She brings over a decade of experience across energy markets—including trading, structuring, project development, and commercial strategy. Prior to joining Foss & Company, she served as an executive and founding member of a renewable hydrogen startup. She began her career in natural gas trading at a global commodities trading firm. She is a respected speaker and thought leader on energy markets and decarbonization, having presented at leading international conferences such as COP28. Claire graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Geological Engineering and is a member of the NREL Energy Executive Leadership Class of 2022.
Ryan has over 20 years of experience in solar, wind, energy efficiency and battery storage development and investing. Prior to founding 38 Degrees North, Ryan led project finance and capital formation for SunEdison's North American region. Ryan has previously held various development and investing positions in wind energy with Enron Wind, which was later sold to General Electric; Greenrock Capital, an early investor in solar opportunities; and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, a utility scale solar project developer that was acquired by SunEdison. Ryan has a B.A. in Geology from Colorado College and an M.B.A. and M.E.M. from Yale University.
Jon Berke is the Chief Content Officer & Managing Editor of New Project Media, where he covers capital markets activity across all of the major renewable generation verticals. He has been covering alternative asset classes over the course of his 20-year career in journalism, including of infrastructure and private credit.
Duncan Campbell is a founding team member at Scale Microgrids. He currently serves as Vice President of Data Center Solutions, where he focuses on bringing fast and cost-effective power solutions to data center developers. Previously as the VP of Project Development, his team focused on designing and evaluating projects using in-house techno-economics and optimization tools. Duncan also is a co-founder of DER Task Force - a distributed energy professional community centered around digital media and physical events. Duncan holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with an Energy Systems concentration from Temple University.
Charlie Daum is Vice President of Development and Origination at Generate Capital, where he leads commercial development and customer engagement across the company’s data center, C&I, and public sector platforms. He brings deep expertise in clean energy, with a career spanning renewables, power markets, and energy finance. Over the past two decades, Charlie has specialized in project development, commercial energy procurement, project finance, and origination. Before joining Generate, he was a founding member and Managing Director of Alturus, partnering with Fortune 500 companies to design and deliver innovative behind the meter decarbonization projects. Earlier in his career, he was a founding member of Geronimo Energy and served as Managing Director at Altenex.
Ike Emehelu, co-head of Akin’s Projects & Energy Transition practice, is a trusted authority in energy and infrastructure transactions, with extensive experience advising clients on complex financings, joint ventures, and development projects across the energy spectrum. Ike regularly counsels leading energy companies, financial institutions, and investors on structuring and executing innovative deals in conventional power, renewable energy, and emerging energy transition technologies. His collaborative approach and deep industry knowledge enable clients to navigate critical challenges and achieve their strategic objectives in an evolving market.
Jon Fitzpatrick, a renewable energy project development expert with more than 17 years of experience leading completion of distributed-scale solar projects up to 20 megawatts across North America, is Chief Development Officer for Pivot Energy. Jon joined Pivot in 2017 as Director of Project Development. Prior to being named Chief Development Officer in 2024, Jon served as Vice President and Senior Vice President of Project Development.
In his role as Chief Development Officer, Jon oversees project diligence and development along with engineering and procurement. His teams collaborate with participating utilities and local, regional, and state jurisdictional authorities to bring projects through complex permitting processes and secure administrative and discretionary approvals to qualify land to host solar projects for 20+ years. Jon also works closely with Pivot's project developers and engineers across dozens of markets to ensure projects are reviewed and entitled so they can quickly be constructed and brought online.
Since joining Pivot, Jon has been responsible for consistent growth and delivery in Pivot’s emerging and established markets, managing a pipeline from Pivot’s origination team of more than 1.5GW annually.
Throughout this career, Jon has overseen the development of more than 3.4 gigawatts (GW) of DG solar projects across the U.S. He has developed new markets, expanded existing markets, and pioneered creative solutions to complex problems to bring projects to commercial operation. Since 2012, Jon has participated in more than 200 public hearings, securing permit and community buy-in for solar development, and worked with dozens of permitting agencies to create and amend land use codes that support responsible solar development.
Prior to Pivot, Jon was in leadership roles at Clean Energy Collective and Bella Energy, Inc.
He is the executive sponsor of Pivot’s annual Movember movement, which raises over $10,000 annually for men’s physical and mental health research and support.
Jon has a Bachelor of Science from Colorado State University, and works at Pivot’s Denver headquarters. When he’s not in the Pivot offices, Jon can be found sneaking in a trail run, shuttling children to extracurricular activities, or restoring order to the forest with his chainsaw on 40 acres outside of Fort Collins, CO.
Skyler Frazer is a journalist with over 10 years of experience covering energy, policy, and business across a range of U.S. publications. At NPM, he focuses on distributed generation projects with a particular emphasis on the growth of community solar.
Jon is the Director of Corporate Operations at USCE, a clean energy platform and holding company operating in the solar, energy storage, and building decarbonization sectors Before joining USCE, Jon worked as an infrastructure risk researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and a wholesale market analyst at National Grid. He holds an MS in Finance from Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, an MA in International Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a BA in Government from Georgetown University.
Hannan Happi is the CEO and Co-founder of Exowatt. A mechanical engineer by training, Hannan studied at the Technical University of Munich and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Before founding Exowatt, Hannan held leadership and engineering roles at General Electric, Siemens, Accenture, and Tesla. He later co-founded and led Volansi, a vertical take-off and landing drone startup focused on autonomous logistics, which was acquired by a major defense firm.
Now based in Miami, Florida, Hannan and the Exowatt team are focused on solving one of the most urgent infrastructure challenges of our time: delivering scalable, dispatchable, on-site energy solutions that keep pace with the digital world’s accelerating demands.
Andrew Hsiung leads Crux’s Debt Capital Markets and Corporate Finance teams. In these roles, Andrew is responsible for the origination and execution of debt capital raises for clean energy developers and manufacturers.
Prior to joining Crux, Andrew was an infrastructure credit investor at Carlyle and BlackRock, where he was responsible for over $5 billion in capital commitments across power, energy, transportation, digital, water/waste and social infrastructure sectors.
Andrew holds a BBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business.
Kevin Imboden joined EdgeConneX in 2022 after a decade and a half of study of the commercial real estate market for both the data provider and brokerage realms. He has produced a variety of research in primary and emerging markets, conducted both local and international market analyses, and appeared on many podcasts and at speaking engagements worldwide.
Kevin has a strong knowledge of the global data center industry along with international capital flows and macroeconomics, and frequently deciphers both local and global market trends current and future. He is proudly co-chair of the DIEB (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, Belonging) Committee at EdgeConneX and has a combined degree in Business Management and Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Omar Jooma is an associate in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice. His practice focuses on representing sponsors, developers, and borrowers in project and structured finance, acquisitions, and project development transactions. He also advises lenders, tax equity investors, private equity funds, and other investors in the renewable energy and clean technology sectors.
Prior to joining the firm, Omar was an associate in the Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) and Impact group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he advised private equity firms and public and private companies on a wide range of ESG and sustainability-related matters, with a particular focus on sustainable finance. Prior to that, he was an associate in the bank finance group at an international law firm.
George is an expert in U.S. electricity markets with a deep understanding of all factors affecting U.S. wholesale electric markets including market design, environmental regulations, fuel markets, transmission, renewable, energy efficiency, and demand side management. He has been involved in a large number of projects including several forward price curve assessments, development support, and financial performance of generation assets. He works in the areas of energy modeling, wholesale market assessments, asset valuations, restructuring, and litigation support, as well as contract evaluation and risk assessments.
Andrew Kessler assumed the position of President of NY Green Bank in February 2021 having served the prior two years as Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment & Portfolio Management at NY Green Bank. Mr. Kessler is an industry leader in clean energy investing with over 30 years of experience. As President, Mr. Kessler leads NYGB’s mission to work in collaboration with the private sector to transform financing markets in ways that accelerate clean energy investments, combat climate change, and equitably deliver both economic and environmental benefits to all New Yorkers.
Prior to joining NY Green Bank, Mr. Kessler held senior positions as a corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions professional at various firms including HSBC, Waller Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Duff & Phelps.
Over four decades, Merrill Kramer has represented the largest and most innovative companies in the energy sector. One of the top-ranked energy lawyers in the country, Merrill anchors the firm's energy transactional capabilities. His practice focuses on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects across the U.S. and internationally.
An experienced project finance attorney who began his legal career as a senior trial lawyer at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Merrill guides clients through the complexities of the development, financing, sale, acquisition, and investment in energy and other infrastructure projects. Over his entire career in D.C., he has distinguished himself as a leading figure among industry leaders and policymakers, advocating for projects and policy and regulatory initiatives that advance clean energy solutions.
Merrill has represented Fortune 200 companies and other major players in over a hundred projects representing more than $30 billion in invested capital and involving technologies from solar, wind, battery storage, geothermal, hydroelectric, renewable natural gas, landfill and municipal waste, to cogeneration, combined heat and power (CHP), and conventional natural gas-fired power plants. He also advises large industrial and commercial energy users, as well as universities, on procurement and development matters. His expertise spans industries and legal areas, including corporate transactions, M&A, tax equity investment, private equity investment, regulatory compliance, real estate, land use, and environmental issues.
Merrill's substantial transactional and regulatory experience ensures comprehensive project finance capabilities for DWT's institutional clients and newcomers alike, and his clean energy experience aids companies that are focused on environmental impact, ESG matters, and general corporate governance. During his tenure at FERC, Merrill was head of the Cogeneration and Small Power Production Task Force. Today he serves as outside counsel to the New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA).
Sam is the CEO of Eddy Energy, leading all corporate development, market entry, power marketing and partnerships. He has fifteen years of experience developing renewable energy projects and smart grid systems across major markets in North America.
Previously Sam was VP of Energy Storage at Endurant Energy, where he led a team and a 200 MWh pipeline of distributed storage assets.
Prior to that he was with Stem, where he led business development and product marketing for the front-of-the-meter storage segment. Over his career Sam has held roles at Opus One Solutions, GE, ARPA-e, Recurrent Energy, and Silicon Valley Power.
He has a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of Texas.
Meier started her career in serving clean energy clients at McKinsey and Company. Her expertise in energy storage dates back to work for Southern California Edison’s strategic planning group where, in 2011, she co-wrote a white paper on the full value chain of applications of energy storage from end use customers to grid-scale applications.
With a decade of experience raising $1.5 billion for clean energy projects, Marc has extensive expertise at the intersection of capital markets and energy infrastructure. He founded Conductor Solar to tackle the hardest market segment in project financing: commercial and community solar. His insight into hundreds of deals helped him identify the most important opportunities for a software company to reduce soft costs, accelerate project financing, and get more projects funded and built.
As Altus Power’s Chief Investment Officer, Abhi Parmar leads the Investment and Structured Finance team. He is responsible for leading the origination, negotiation, due diligence and transaction processes of Altus’ solar assets. Origination includes self-developed projects, late-stage development projects and operating project / portfolio acquisitions. Abhi is also responsible for managing the capital markets activities at Altus Power including senior and junior debt instruments, tax equity, and other capital sources available to the company. Abhi received his bachelor's degree in statistics and economics from the University of Virginia.
Mr. Redinger manages KeyBanc Capital Markets (KBCM) North America Utility, Power and Renewable Energy Practice. With more than 20 years of energy experience, Mr. Redinger has provided specialized investment banking services to some of North America’s largest utility and renewable energy companies. Under his leadership, KBCM has built a national utility, power and renewable energy practice, committed over $5.0 billion of KBCM’s balance sheet to utility and renewable energy clients, successfully advised numerous utility and renewable energy companies in private capital raises, acquisitions and divestiture assignments and structured and financed over 3.0 GW of renewable energy projects.
Mr. Redinger received a B.S. degree in Economics from Purdue University and holds an MBA in Finance from Loyola University.
Nick Sangermano, an industry veteran with formidable energy expertise, serves as president of GS Power Partners. With 20+ years of direct experience in power, capital markets, and renewables, he is well positioned to provide strategic direction to the GS Power Partners team. In his role as president, Nick helps to shape the company’s strategic direction while overseeing commercial efforts.
Prior to GS Power Partners, Nick served in various management, finance, and operations roles, including the Managing Director of Rubicon Infrastructure Advisors and Senior Advisor to CleanCapital. Nick has raised over $3 billion of capital in solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal to advance the energy transition. He is an industry thought leader and a frequent conference speaker, has appeared on Bloomberg TV, and has been published in several industry media outlets.
Nick is a passionate advocate for sustainability and ESG. He has served as a member of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Pioneer Award selection committee and the Waterkeeper Alliance Leadership Circle; as an advisor to the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE); and as a member of the Advisory Board for the Colorado School of Mines’ Payne Institute. Nick also served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as an officer and pilot. He received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from McGill University and a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from the University of Western Ontario.
Julian Torres serves as Scale Microgrids’ chief investment officer and is primarily responsible for guiding the investment strategy, structuring, and deployment of Scale’s capital into distributed energy resources and energy infrastructure assets. In a professional career spanning two decades, Julian has assisted with closing over $12 billion in structured finance, tax equity, and project finance. Julian holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and is a CFA Charterholder.