• WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21

  • 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! 

  • THURSDAY OCTOBER 22

  • 08:15

    Registration Opens

  • 09:15

    Welcome Remarks & NPM Data Presentation

  • 09:30

    Morning Keynote Address: ON.Energy

    Entrepreneur Alan Cooper will discuss the journey of ON.Energy from its roots as a grid-scale storage developer to developing the next generation of technology to serve AI-driven hyperscale data centers

  • 09:45

    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.
  • 10:30

    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.
  • 11:15

    Morning Coffee Break & Speed Networking

  • 12:00

    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.
  • 13:00

    Networking Lunch

  • 14:00

    Afternoon Keynote Address: NJBPU

    Christine Guhl-Sadovy, an executive with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities will discuss the lessons learned in growing community solar in the Garden State.

  • 14:15

    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.
  • 15:15

    Afternoon Coffee Break

  • 16:00

    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.
  • 17:00

    Closing Drinks Reception