Agenda
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21
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17:30
Welcome Drinks Reception
Join us the evening before the full day conference, for the opportunity to connect with your peers in a relaxed setting before the main event.
More details coming soon!
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 22
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08:00
Registration Opens
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08:45
Welcome Remarks & NPM Data Presentation
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09:00
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09:15
Panel 1: DG’s Response to Surging Data Center Demand
- Assessment of where behind-the-meter microgrids using solar, storage, and fuel cells provide advantages over utility interconnection, including speed to power, phased load buildout, and siting constraints.
- Best practices for designing the DG reliability stack, including islanding architecture, black start capability, redundancy targets (N+1, 2N), and controls and dispatch requirements.
- Evaluation of project economics and bankability across tolling and PPA-style structures, including fuel supply strategy, emissions compliance pathways, and allocation of availability and curtailment risk.
- Discussion of how DG developers are evolving their strategies to compete for data center load in an increasingly competitive market, including competition from community solar and other solicitation-based opportunities.
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10:00
Panel 2: Financing Edge Expansion and Behind-the-Meter Power
- Emerging financing structures supporting growth in edge and co-location data centers and the power infrastructure required for inference workloads.
- Advantages and disadvantages of packaging edge and co-location data center projects under a single financing structure.
- How edge and co-location data center owners are adapting to inference-driven demand, including evolving best practices for funding and capital deployment.
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10:45
Morning Coffee Break & Speed Networking
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11:30
Panel 3: The Emerging Role of Distributed Storage
- Overview of where value is emerging for distributed storage across DG applications.
- Current state of the domestic storage supply chain and its implications for developer confidence, particularly for smaller platforms.
- Origination opportunities for DG storage to support behind-the-meter storage deployments for data centers.
- Evaluation of whether accelerated solicitations are improving outcomes for DG power generation and capacity deployment.
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13:45
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14:00
Panel 4: Are Accelerated DG Solicitations Creating a Path to Profitability?
- Role of accelerated utility solicitations that incorporate DG capacity and the resulting trade-offs and benefits for developers.
- Development opportunities and program benefits emerging in newer DG solar and storage markets such as New Jersey and Virginia.
- Execution readiness required to compete in accelerated programs, including permitting playbooks, equipment reservation strategies, interconnection expertise, commissioning resources, and the ability to run parallel critical workstreams.
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15:00
Afternoon Coffee Break
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15:45
Panel 5: Industry Consolidation and Repositioning for the Future
- Impacts of industry consolidation on community solar, C&I solar developer and developer/owner platform and its impact on different counterparties such as utilities and municipalities
- Shifts in sponsor strategy between backing community solar and C&I solar developer/owner management teams and pursuing operational opportunities to acquire and reposition older assets coming off expiring PPAs.
- Effects of large-scale corporate lending activity in 2026 on development velocity and the relative attractiveness of different geographies.
- Approaches developers are using to manage expiring tax credits alongside FEOC compliance requirements.
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16:30
Closing Drinks Reception
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Alan Cooper is CEO and Co-Founder of ON.energy, a billion-dollar, multinational energy-technology company deploying gigawatts of energy storage and UPS for AI data centers, critical infrastructure, and grid assets.
Cooper sets ON.energy's strategy and drives its operational and financial results. Under his leadership, the company has grown to over 200 employees and 3 GW+ of operating and under-construction capacity, purpose-built to meet the reliability demands of AI-scale loads and complex grid environments.
A proven entrepreneur and operator, Cooper has founded and exited several companies across the energy technology space, from oil and gas to power generation and storage. He holds an Honours BA in Economics from the University of Toronto.
Harry Hegeman joined Foss & Company in January of 2026. As an Associate Vice President on the Energy & Infrastructure Project Finance team, Harry serves as the Commercial lead for renewable energy fund investments. Prior to joining Foss & Company, Harry served as a renewable energy tax equity investor for a Fortune 100 Corporation where he helped close +$330m of renewable energy transactions and funded over $150m in capital. Harry also spent numerous years at a large renewable energy developer serving as the financial representative on over 40 M&A and Greenfield assets spanning various technology types. Harry earned his B.A. in Economics at Yale University.
Christine Guhl-Sadovy is the President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). Governor Phil Murphy nominated Guhl-Sadovy to serve as a Commissioner in 2023. Shortly after her appointment, Guhl-Sadovy was named President in September of that year. Prior to her current role, Guhl-Sadovy served as Cabinet Secretary for Governor Murphy, where she spearheaded the creation of the Governor’s Fellow Program, which connects recent graduates and early career professionals to positions in key policy and programmatic fields in state government.
Before joining the Governor’s Office, President Guhl-Sadovy worked on staff at NJBPU, where she rose to the position of Chief of Staff to President Joe Fiordaliso and advanced priority initiatives related to community solar, offshore wind, and lead service line replacement. Prior to serving in the Murphy Administration, President Guhl-Sadovy held roles at the national Sierra Club, where she worked on state and federal energy policy matters, and at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey.
President Guhl-Sadovy is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners serving on the Energy Resources and the Environment, and Consumers and the Public Interest committees. She is a lifelong New Jersey resident and a graduate of Rutgers University.