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
Panel #3 – Project Lifecycle Obstacles and Solutions in 2025
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
- How will tariffs, if implemented under the Trump administration, impact the cost of the equipment and how different clean energy verticals might be impacted
- Updates on how the US supply chain is becoming a cost-effective solution to overseas production
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 FERC 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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