About NPM Events
NPM Events provides a complete events package for the renewable energy community through high-quality, engaging content, hosting expert industry speakers, generating non-biased discussion and debate and providing valuable networking opportunities for attendees.
This year’s US Energy Storage Development Forum will bring together the renewable energy storage community for networking and in-depth panel discussions with industry leaders.
Strategic Sponsors
Altus Group
https://www.altusgroup.com/services/state-local-tax/Altus Group provides the global energy and commercial real estate industries with vital actionable intelligence solutions driven by our technology, asset level data, and market leading expertise. Providing Intelligence as a Service™, Altus empowers developers and investors to make well-informed decisions with greater speed and scale to maximize returns and reduce risk.
Altus’s Tax team is the leading provider of state and local tax consulting services for utility-scale renewables in the U.S. and Canada. Our comprehensive state and local tax services are relevant throughout the asset lifecycle and include creating and analyzing state and local tax projections, negotiating discretionary incentives, and pursuing tax appeals opportunities.
DLA Piper LLC
https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/locations/DLA Piper Energy and Natural Resources sector is recognized as a comprehensive, go-to firm in the renewable energy sector. Our team possesses decades of industry-specific knowledge and experience in all segments of the energy industry, with a focus on renewable energy infrastructure projects—including projects focused on renewable generation (solar, wind, biomass, and hydro), storage, and transmission. We regularly assist clients in the acquisition, development, financing, and sale of energy infrastructure projects, including projects utilizing renewable technologies.
Fractal EMS
https://fractalems.comFractal EMS is a turn-key energy storage (and DER) controls solution that includes hardware, software, integration, monitoring, and maintenance. Fractal EMS provides full command, control, monitoring and management functionality for a single energy storage asset or a fleet or assets location anywhere in the world.
The supply landscape and pricing continuously change. Fractal EMS provides a technology agnostic controls platform that is compatible with different brands of batteries, generation resources and balance of plant components. Our clients need the freedom to design each project with the right recipe of equipment. Let Fractal EMS provide a flexible and universal controls platform to future proof your fleet and operations.
Fundamental Renewables
https://www.fundamental.com/renewablesFundamental Renewables (“FR”) is the clean energy investment arm of Fundamental that is focused on providing specialty finance solutions for the development, construction and operation of renewable energy projects across the United States. FR’s strategy seeks to provide consistent current income, downside protection, and attractive risk-adjusted returns, while delivering inherent environmental benefits. With a flexible approach and streamlined process, they can lend across all stages of the project lifecycle and deliver customized solutions to an underserved segment of the market.
KeyBanc Capital Markets
https://www.key.com/businesses-institutions/industry-expertise/keybank-capital-markets.htmlWith more than 800 professionals across a national platform, KeyBanc Capital Markets has more than $50 billion of capital committed to clients and an award-winning Equity Research team that provides coverage on over 600 publicly-traded companies. KeyBanc’s clients benefit from their deep expertise across seven focused industry sectors, including Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Industrial, Public Sector, Real Estate, and Technology. KeyBanc Capital Markets is a trade name under which corporate and investment banking products and services of KeyCorp and its subsidiaries, KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC, and KeyBank National Association (“KeyBank N.A.“), are marketed.
Marathon Capital
https://www.marathoncapital.com/Founded in 1999, Marathon Capital has been involved in many pivotal energy transactions and company expansions in the areas of M&A, capital raising, project finance and tax equity advisory. We serve companies, developers, investors and sponsors in jurisdictions around the world. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Canada, New York City and San Francisco. Representative offices are maintained in Houston and Brazil.
NovaSource Power Services
https://www.novasourcepower.com/NovaSource Power Services are built from the ground up to scale with your renewables portfolio around the world. The team at NovaSource is poised with the capabilities to drive innovation across the design, maintenance, and management of off-grid, commercial, industrial, and utility scale solar projects.
Spearmint Energy
https://spearmintenergy.com/Efficiently enabling the revolution.
Our goal is to Accelerate the delivery of stable, inexpensive, renewable energy to the power grid.
Spearmint Energy seeks to be the preeminent green merchant energy trading and development firm as it combines stable capital deployment with opportunistic investment and risk management expertise. Utilities, load-serving entities, and renewable developers also contract for storage, but given their lower risk tolerance aren’t as focused on the regions with greatest imbalances. Spearmint is squarely focused on places where it can make the greatest difference in addressing supply intermittency and its counterpart – price volatility.
Wilson Sonsini
https://www.wsgr.com/en/For more than six decades, the firm has represented the technology pioneers associated with virtually every milestone innovation. Today, Wilson Sonsini is synonymous with ushering promising, innovative companies through their business life cycle. As their clients have grown, so has their firm. The firm now represent many of the largest companies in the world—and thousands of the smallest ones, too.
Branding Partners
Davis Wright Tremaine
https://www.dwt.comDavis Wright Tremaine LLP is widely recognized as a leader in helping clients build and protect their intellectual property. With approximately 600 lawyers, and offices around the country, the firm serves leading clients in energy, technology, entertainment, healthcare, media, telecommunications, food/beverage, and other industries. For more information, visit dwt.com.
Sol-REIT
https://www.sol-reit.comSol-REIT is a structured finance partner for small and mid-size solar developers across the nation seeking to disrupt the financial paradigm for solar developers and democratize access to affordable clean energy for families, businesses, and government institutions across North America with their revolutionary financing solution.
With Sol-REIT's innovative financing structure, you can grow your business while helping to end the fragmentation and inefficiencies that constrain small and medium-sized solar developers from participating in the robust transformation of North America's energy grid from fossil fuel to green power.
STEM
https://www.stem.com/As the first public pure play smart energy storage company, Stem delivers and operates battery storage solutions that maximize renewable energy generation and help build a cleaner, more resilient grid. STEM inc. customers include Fortune 500 companies, project developers, utilities and independent power producers. Stem’s market-leading Athena software helps lower energy costs and solve renewable intermittency across the world’s largest network of distributed energy storage systems.
Supporting Partner
Cleantech San Diego
https://cleantechsandiego.orgCleantech San Diego is a member-based business organization founded 15 years ago that positions the San Diego region as a leader in the cleantech economy by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, engaging in advocacy efforts to promote cleantech priorities, supporting energy entrepreneurs through the Southern California Energy Innovation Network, and encouraging more equitable investment across the San Diego region. Cleantech San Diego’s stakeholders include more than 120 businesses, universities, governments, and nonprofits committed to advancing sustainable solutions for the benefit of the economy, the environment, and all members of the community. Learn more at cleantechsandiego.org.