Agenda
Agenda
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Introductory Remarks & Market Analysis
Keynote #1 – Data Centers Impact on Renewable Energy Development
A leading industry executive will discuss the acceleration of data center growth, integrating renewable energy into data center development, and evolving power needs of their clients.
Panel #1 – Data Centers: Powering the next generation of renewable load demand
Panelists will discuss the following:
- Balancing accelerated load growth and sustainability initiatives
- Obstacles and solutions for building data centers and power origination
- 24/7 powering while incorporating sustainability initiatives
- Emerging clean energy technologies addressing data center intermittency
- Natural gas resurgence amidst increased data center demand
Speed Networking / Coffee Break
Keynote Speaker #2 – Evolving Energy Storage Technology Landscape
A leading solutions provider will discuss how technology is changing for battery energy storage projects, the status of newer battery storage technologies, and progress supplanting lithium-ion.
Panel #2 – Energy Storage Everywhere
Panelists will discuss the following:
- Storage growth and tax credit developments two years post-IRA
- Evolution of contracted revenues for standalone storage projects and states benefitting
- ERCOT merchant storage viability going forward
- Developers de-risking storage projects & supply chain impacts of potential Chinese tariffs
- Obstacles & solutions to long-duration storage commercializationBattery options supporting data center growth
Lunch Break
Keynote Speaker #3 – Utility Load Growth Challenges & Solutions
A leading utility official discusses growing challenges & solutions of replacing thermal resources, and finding new energy sources to power load growth
Panel #3 – Interconnection Obstacles & Solutions
Panelists will discuss the following:
- Continued impacts of FERC 2023 on interconnection reform
- Effect of escalating costs and networking upgrades on projects being developed efficiently
- Rising interconnection cost impacts on asset sale timelines
- PJM load demand & data center development impact on clean energy growth, and ongoing reform impacting project acceleration
Networking Coffee Break
Panel #4 – Capital Markets Roundtable
Panelists will discuss the following:
- Rising costs and potential further consolidation in the clean energy development space
- IPP strategic evolution with project ownership vs. asset sales
- Pipeline valuations and FECR 2023 reform impacts
- Expectations of lower interest rates and impact on project finance & M&A
- DOE’s Loan Program Office (LPO) financing impacts under Trump administration
Closing Drinks Reception
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As Director of Origination & Power Marketing, Erik Ejups is responsible for the sale and negotiation of long-term renewable energy transactions for EDF’s pipeline of wind, solar, and storage assets. Erik joined the EDFR in early 2019 and has negotiated and closed structured power transactions with leading corporate and utility buyers of renewable energy products across the United States. Prior to joining EDFR, Erik worked in Chicago, trading quantitative equity option strategies. Erik is a CFA® charter holder and earned his BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Steven Munson, CFA, ASA, is a Principal in CohnReznick’s Valuation Advisory Services practice based in the New York office. Steven Munson has 14 years of experience providing valuation and other advisory services to leading energy companies in the U.S. and globally. He leads the Energy, Infrastructure, and Machinery & Equipment Valuation practice for CohnReznick. Steven performs valuation and financial advisory engagements for expert witness testimony & litigation support, mergers and acquisitions, cost segregation, transaction structuring, debt and equity funding, buy/sell planning, financial reporting and purchase accounting, due diligence, tax structuring and reporting, charitable donations, and strategic planning.
Steven Munson, CFA, ASA, is a Principal in CohnReznick’s Valuation Advisory Services practice based in the New York office. Steven Munson has 14 years of experience providing valuation and other advisory services to leading energy companies in the U.S. and globally. He leads the Energy, Infrastructure, and Machinery & Equipment Valuation practice for CohnReznick. Steven performs valuation and financial advisory engagements for expert witness testimony & litigation support, mergers and acquisitions, cost segregation, transaction structuring, debt and equity funding, buy/sell planning, financial reporting and purchase accounting, due diligence, tax structuring and reporting, charitable donations, and strategic planning.