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Ameresco
Ameresco helps organizations meet energy saving and energy management challenges with an integrated comprehensive approach to energy efficiency and renewable energy. Leveraging budget neutral solutions, including energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) and power purchase agreements (PPAs), we eliminate the financial barriers that traditionally hamper energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
Drawing from decades of experience, Ameresco develops tailored energy management projects for its customers in the commercial, industrial, local, state and federal government, K-12 education, higher education, healthcare and public housing sectors.
American Battery Factory
American Battery Factory (ABF) focuses exclusively on manufacturing and enhancing high-performance prismatic Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries – the safest, longest-lasting, most reliable and eco-friendly batteries available today.
Antora Energy
Antora Energy is building a low-cost thermal battery for grid-scale energy storage. By combining inexpensive thermal storage media at high temperatures with high-efficiency thermophotovoltaic energy conversion, we will support the widespread integration of renewable resources on the electricity grid.
Arevon
Arevon is North America's leading renewable energy company, offering comprehensive renewable energy infrastructure solutions to institutional investors and long-term owners that maximize value across the entire lifecycle of assets. Arevon is an affiliate of Capital Dynamics, benefitting from the global scale and extensive market insight of the global Capital Dynamics Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI) platform.
Arevon's global fleet of PV Solar and Onshore Wind assets now exceeds 6.5GWdc, representing over $9 billion in invested capital. Arevon operates the 2nd largest portfolio of operating solar assets in North America, with over 3.5 GWdc of commercially operating utility-scale, commercial/industrial, distributed generation, and Battery Storage assets. With an additional 3.0 GWdc of solar assets currently under construction in the United States, Arevon is leading the renewable energy revolution in one of the most exciting industries of the 21st century.
Avantus
Founded in 2009, Avantus (formerly 8minute Solar Energy) is the nation's largest independent developer of solar PV projects. To date, 8minutenergy has nearly 5.5 GW under development in North America, been awarded 1.5 GW in power purchase agreements, and is developing some of the largest solar plants in the world, including the 800 MW Mount Signal Solar Farm in California. 8minutenergy has an unmatched ability to produce affordable clean energy and to deliver strong financial returns on utility-scale solar projects.
Aypa Power
Aypa is a pioneering developer, owner, and operator of energy storage and renewable hybrid projects. As a Blackstone portfolio company and utilizing the latest technologies, we create intelligent systems that improve the way we generate, store, and use power.
We design customized energy storage and generation projects for a range of applications, including microgrids and distributed energy resources, commercial and industrial facilities, and utility-scale systems that can power entire cities. Working closely with our diverse range of partners, we’re creating a world powered by affordable, sustainable, and reliable energy.
Glendale Water & Power
Glendale Water & Power is a municipal utility that serves the citizens and community of Glendale, California including over 34,091 water and 88,849 electric customers. Glendale Water & Power's vision is to provide our customers with reliable and sustainable water and power services that are cost effective and innovative. Glendale Water & Power helps our residents and businesses become wise stewards of the planet's natural resources and to wisely manage energy costs at home and at work through our Community Programs, Residential Water and Energy Efficiency Programs, and Business Programs.
Clean Power Alliance
Clean Power Alliance is Southern California’s locally-operated electricity provider for 32 communities and approximately one million eligible customers across Los Angeles and Ventura counties, offering clean renewable energy at competitive rates.
Clearway
Clearway Energy Group is leading the transition to a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., we own and operate 10 gigawatts of renewable and conventional energy assets across the country. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new renewable energy projects for the future, Clearway’s 8 gigawatts of operating wind, solar, and energy storage assets offset the equivalent of more than 10.5 million metric tons of carbon emissions for our customers today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Carlsbad, Calif.; Scottsdale, Ariz.; Denver, Colo.; Houston; and Princeton, N.J. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com.
Connect California
Enhance your skills, network with industry leaders and drive more business at Connect California—the event for planners and suppliers focused on national association, corporate and international meetings and events in California. Experience a quality packed day of general sessions, roundtables, preset appointments and networking.
Customized Energy Solutions
Customized Energy Solutions (CES) is committed to promoting economic development through the advancement of transparent, efficient, and nondiscriminatory wholesale and retail energy markets. CES supports clients by delivering scalable hosted software platforms to provide end-to-end management and optimization of assets creating profitable participation in the national energy markets today and into the future.
Hydrostor
Hydrostor is a leader in Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES), a technology uniquely suited to enable the transition to a cleaner, more reliable electricity grid. A-CAES provides grid services that are not readily replicated by other storage technologies by flexibly addressing bulk electricity system needs for long-duration dispatchable capacity, renewable integration and optimization, transmission deferral and ancillary services
EDF Renewables
EDF Renewables North America is a market leading independent power producer and service provider with over 30 years of experience. The Company delivers grid-scale power: wind (onshore and offshore), solar photovoltaic, and storage projects; distributed solutions: solar, solar+storage, EV charging and energy management; and asset optimization: technical, operational, and commercial skills to maximize performance of generating projects.
EnerSmart Storage
EnerSmart Storage LLC is a developer of front-of-the-meter battery energy storage projects throughout the US, focusing on projects of up to 10MW in capacity. The company generates revenues primarily by delivering energy and frequency control services to Independent System Operators, as well as capacity in available markets. EnerSmart currently has 54MW/108MWhrs under development, spread between several sites that are expected to go commercial during 2021. The company intends to develop an additional 200 MW of battery storage projects by year-end 2023. EnerSmart brings together an experienced management team with expertise in project development, project finance, AI, and machine learning software. The founders have known each other for 20+ years and have successfully launched and grown energy and technology-enabled ventures since the 1990s. To learn more about our company and projects, please visit our website at: www.enersmartstorage.com.
Energy Dome
Energy Dome is a company with a revolutionary technology for large scale and long duration energy storage. Our patented technology is based on a thermodynamic process which uses CO2 to store electricity cost effectively with unprecedented round trip efficiencies. The simplicity of the process as well as the use of readily available off the shelf equipment opens the way for Energy Dome to quickly become an important player of the energy storage market. With our technology it is possible to store large quantities of energy for long periods of time anywhere without any site dependency and deliver all the typical services of utility scale storage systems, including grid regulation services, maximizing investment returns for our customers.
Energy Safety Response Group
Energy Safety Response Group (ESRG) is the energy storage industry’s first and only complete provider for safety and emergency management solutions. Offering expertise in testing, code compliance, permitting, site safety, training, emergency response, failure investigation, and post-incident disposal, ESRG stands alone in offering cradle-to-grave safety solutions for the energy storage industry.
Energy Vault
The Energy Vault solution utilises the same fundamentals of physics and kinetic energy as pumped hydro but replaces the water with custom made cylindrical blocks utilising an extremely innovative use of low-cost materials.
These low-cost blocks, combined with our patented system design and some very clever control software, has allowed us to deliver all the benefits of a pumped hydro system but at a much lower price, starting size and without the need for hard to find topography.
ENGIE
ENGIE (formerly Green Charge) helps power the world more efficiently and sustainably. As the nation's number one distributed energy storage company, we serve energy producers, distributors, and consumers, including utilities, network operators, and energy consumers in business and government.
esVolta
esVolta, LP is a developer, owner and operator of utility-scale energy storage projects across North America. Our projects provide essential services for electric utilities and large energy users including on-demand capacity, energy arbitrage and ancillary grid support services. esVolta's portfolio of operational plus utility-contracted pipeline projects totals over 500 MWh, and we are actively developing over 1,000 MWhs of further project opportunities. We are supported by a long-term capital commitment from RBP Partners LLC and a strategic procurement arrangement with Powin Energy Corporation.
Fluence
Fluence, a Siemens and AES company, is a global energy storage technology solutions and services company that combines the agility of a technology company with the expertise, vision, and financial backing of two industry powerhouses. Established in 2018, as the successor to industry pioneers AES Energy Storage and Siemens energy storage, Fluence's goal is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. The company offers proven energy storage technology solutions designed to address the diverse needs and challenges of customers in a rapidly transforming energy landscape, providing design, delivery and integration in over 160 countries. Fluence works closely with customers during every step of their journey and provides advisory, financing, and project lifecycle services. To date, Fluence's teams have deployed or been awarded a market-leading 56 projects with a total capacity of 485 MW in 15 countries.
Form Energy
Form Energy is developing a brand new class of ultra-low cost, long duration energy storage systems. With these new systems, renewables can be made fully firm and dispatchable year-round, and transmission capacity can be expanded without the need for new wires. If we are successful, the global electric system will be entirely reshaped, and given new form.
ForeFront Power
ForeFront Power has more than 15 years of renewable industry experience, serving business, public sector, and residential power customers around the world. Our team has developed over 900 MW of capacity across more than 1,000 projects, targeted on assisting public sector agencies and C&I firms to deliver the most impactful behind-the-meter, community solar, battery storage, and wholesale solutions.
ForeFront Power is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., a global energy infrastructure and investment leader. Mitsui brings a strong balance sheet and global presence to its partnership with ForeFront Power. The company offers substantial financial liquidity due to its strong profitability and is proud to have a credit rating of A from Standard & Poor’s and A3 from Moody’s.
Gridwiz
Gridwiz aims to protect the environment by providing solutions that economically manage customer’s energy consumption. Based on international standards and advanced controlling mechanisms, Gridwiz’s state-of-the-art DR solution is considered as No. 1 in the DR industry. Now, Gridwiz is leading the energy industry by providing solution packages for DR, DER, Smart Factory, and EV charging infrastructure.
Hecate Energy
Hecate Energy is a leading developer, owner, and operator of solar, natural gas, wind, and energy-storage projects. Our global presence drives best-in-class processes, technical designs, and financing structures across countries--and continents.
Hiller
For more than 100 years, Hiller has been laser-focused on one goal – designing, installing, and servicing the most compliant fire protection systems available. With a century of experience in the fire protection industry, we have gained the confidence of our partners. Whether it’s an aircraft carrier or a local airport, a hospital or an urgent care center, locally and globally– Hiller makes the difference.
American Honda Motor Company
American Honda Motor Company is a North American subsidiary of Honda Motor Company. The company combines product sales, service, and coordination functions of Honda in North America, and is responsible for distribution, marketing, and sales of Handa and Acura brand automobiles, Honda power sports products, and Honda power equipment products.
Interesect Power
Founded in 2016, Intersect Power is a clean energy company bringing innovative and scalable low-carbon solutions to its customers in retail and wholesale energy markets. The company develops some of the world’s largest clean energy resources providing low-carbon electricity, fuels, and related products to customers across North America.
LG Chem
LG Chem, founded in 1947, is a worldwide leading manufacturer of Li-Ion and Li-Ion Polymer batteries. LG Chem has an established global footprint, including a strong U.S. presence, and its Li-Ion batteries have been selected by major manufacturers and OEMs worldwide for consumer electronics, electric vehicle, and utility grid storage applications.
Li- Ion Tamer
The Li-ion Tamer® products were developed by the dedicated team at Nexceris, LLC. Founded in 1994, Nexceris prides itself in its core values of innovation, customer service, passion, and integrity. Our dual passions for safety and supporting the growth of clean alternative energy lead us down the path of the Li-ion Tamer® development. First conceived as a safety device for nuclear submarines, the product has evolved into products and conceptual products for the marine, transportation, grid storage, residential energy, and laboratory safety markets. Our work with the U.S. Navy resulted in an expanded team of developers that included DNV-GL and Beckett Energy Systems in work funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. This was followed by several efforts aimed at making our service ships safe. More recently we are working with the Federal Aviation Administration to study ways of detecting battery issues in aviation.
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin provides safe, cost-effective, bankable, and intelligent energy storage systems for applications from behind-the-meter C&I to wholesale interconnected storage. Our turn-key product offerings for the commercial energy storage sector utilize a range of chemistries to deliver least-cost, best-fit solutions to meet our customers’ energy storage needs. Lockheed Martin is also developing a high-performance low-cost flow battery, based on a proprietary chemistry, that is tailored for long-duration energy storage applications.
Malta
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Malta team demonstrates proven leadership in energy go-to-market strategies and robust engineering talent in industrial-scale power generation systems. Malta has buttressed this core team with the formation of a world-class syndicate of investors and energy industry partners to build and operate its first pilot of an electro-thermal energy storage system.
Marin Clean Energy
MCE started as a blue-sky idea bigger than any one of us and became California’s first Community Choice Aggregation program. With the help of local leadership, champion businesses, and individuals like you, we redefined the local energy landscape and created choices for ourselves where there were none before. Together we’re having an enormous impact on greenhouse gas reduction, rate stability, and new, local renewable projects – all without compromising service or reliability.
MN8
Originally founded inside of Goldman Sachs, MN8 Energy is one of the largest and most sophisticated renewable energy companies in the United States.
We are on a mission to serve enterprise customers with the renewable energy and services that they need on their journey to a decarbonized world.
Today, we provide clean, affordable energy and battery storage to over 200 world-class enterprise customers.
The transition to a zero carbon economy is only accelerating – and with our scaled renewable energy portfolio, industry-leading team, and deep technological expertise across solar energy, storage, EV charging and more, we help customers take control of their energy future.
Nexamp
Nexamp, founded in 2007 by two U.S. Army veterans, is leading the transformation to the new energy economy with proven solar and energy storage solutions that make clean energy more accessible for our customers and partners. With a rapidly growing national footprint, our comprehensive solar and energy storage capabilities—including project development and acquisition, design, construction, and operations—enable clean energy savings and benefits for more customers. Because we build, own and operate our projects for the long-term, we are a trusted partner committed to building a more resilient, decarbonized energy future. To learn more about our distributed generation, utility scale and standalone solar or energy storage expertise, visit us at www.nexamp.com.
NextEra Energy Resources
NextEra Energy Resources is the competitive energy subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc., a Fortune 200 company and one of the nation’s largest clean energy providers. NextEra Energy Resources is primarily awholesale power generator, operating power plants and selling the output to utilities, retail electricity providers,power cooperatives, municipal electric providers and large industrial companies. NextEra Energy Resources has a portfolio of facilities, totaling more than 16,700 net megawatts of generatingcapacity in the United States and Canada. Approximately 95 percent of NextEra Energy Resources’ electricity is derived from clean or renewable sources, including wind, solar, hydro, natural gas and nuclear energy.
NGK Insulators
NGK Insulators, Ltd. is a Japanese company that primarily produces insulators but also produces its worldwidely-known sodium-sulfur (NaS) batteries developed in cooperation with TEPCO for grid storage applications in in Japan and the United States.NGK's battery systems can be used for both peak shaving, load leveling, emissions reductions, and as emergency power supplies.
Nostromo
Nostromo Energy is a leading the water-based energy storage technology and challenging the current behind-the-meter energy storage systems landscape.
Onward Energy
Onward Energy is a US based independent power generator that owns and operates a 4 GW portfolio of solar, wind, battery storage, and gas generation projects in the U.S. We use our deep expertise and proven platform to power the energy transition effectively and efficiently. We are where renewable meets reliable.
Peak Power Energy
Peak Power is a North American climate tech company focused on delivering solutions to address electric demand during the costliest hours of use. We particularly specialize in unlocking the revenue potential that energy storage and electric vehicles can offer a facility with load shifting strategies along with using the same resource to participate in the respective energy markets (i.e. CAISO) for additional incentives using our innovative software platform and development expertise.
Peninsula Clean Energy
Peninsula Clean Energy is a CCA launched collaboratively by the County of San Mateo and all twenty of its cities to provide clean, affordable power. Our goal is to provide electricity that is 100% greenhouse gas free by 2021 and 100% renewable on a time-coincident basis by 2025. In addition to cleaner power, our 290,000 San Mateo County customers are saving an estimated $18 million per year when compared to PG&E rates.
Quino Energy
For more information, please visit: https://quinoenergy.com/
Redflow
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RWE
RWE Renewables is a fully owned subsidiary of RWE and one of the global leaders in developing, constructing, operating, and owning utility-scale renewable projects. In practical terms, this means around 3,500 highly qualified employees, business in 15 countries around the globe and a portfolio of assets with a capacity of more than 9 GW. Additionally, RWE Renewables has years of experience installing and operating various technologies world-wide with no safety incidents at any of the 8 operating energy storage sites since 2013.
San Jose Clean Energy
San Jose Clean Energy (SJCE) is the Community Choice Aggregator for all residents and businesses in San Jose. Operated by the City of San Jose, SJCE provides cleaner electricity at competitive rates and pursues renewable power, storage, and decarbonization solutions to create a healthier, more sustainable future for the community.
Sempra Infrastructure
IEnova, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, is one of the largest private energy companies in Mexico. IEnova develops, builds and operates energy infrastructure, integrating the transportation, storage and distribution of gas (natural, ethane and LP), in addition to the generation of electricity and the storage of refines products. IEnova was among the first private companies to invest in the energy sector in Mexico. At year-end 2020, we have more than 1,400 employees and approximately $10.5 billion dollars in total assets.
Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Silicon Valley Clean Energy is a not-for-profit, community-owned agency providing clean electricity from renewable and carbon-free sources to more than 270,000 residential and commercial customers in 13 Santa Clara County jurisdictions. As a public agency, net revenues are returned to the community to keep rates competitive and promote clean energy programs. Silicon Valley Clean Energy is advancing innovative solutions to fight climate change by decarbonizing the grid, transportation, and buildings. Learn more at SVCleanEnergy.org.
Southern Power
Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is a leading U.S. wholesale energy provider meeting the electricity needs of municipalities, electric cooperatives, investor-owned utilities and other energy customers. Southern Power and its subsidiaries, some of which are owned in part with various partners, own or operate 50 facilities operating or under development in 13 states with more than 11,920 MW of generating capacity in Alabama, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Washington and West Virginia. The energy resources that Southern Power and our partners own and operate span multiple technology types including natural gas, wind, solar, as well as alternative clean technologies that include energy storage and fuel cell project facilities.
Stem
Stem provides Intelligent Energy Storage Systems that reduce power costs, increase operational efficiencies, maximize renewable generation value and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Strata Solar Development
Learn more at https://www.stratasolar.com/.
Sumitomo Electric Company
Sumitomo Electric Company, since its founding in 1897, has developed and delivered many new technologies and products through innovative R&D activities based on the prowess of its engineering and production capabilities in electric wires and power cables. The Sumitomo Electric Group provides superb products and services in five core business segments: "Automotive", "Information & Communications", "Electronics", "Electric Wire & Cable, Energy" and "Industrial Materials".
Sunnova
Sunnova Energy International Inc. (NYSE: NOVA) is a leading residential solar and energy storage service provider with customers across the U.S. and its territories. Sunnova's goal is to be the source of clean, affordable and reliable energy with a simple mission: to power energy independence so that homeowners have the freedom to live life uninterrupted™.
Sunrun
Sunrun is the largest dedicated residential solar company in the United States that pioneered the use of solar as a service for residential customers. In March 2016, Sunrun launched its BrightBox product, its first solar energy storage offering for homeowners.
Tenaska
Tenaska, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is one of the leading independent energy companies in the United States. Forbes magazine consistently ranks Tenaska among the 50 largest private U.S. companies. Gross operating revenues were approximately $9.9 billion in 2019.
Tenaska is well regarded for its integrity and commitment to excellence. Customers, partners and investors work with Tenaska again and again because its employees give every project the highest priority and still conduct business like a young company with something to prove. Whatever the test, Tenaska finds innovative solutions and draws on a full range of services, including development, acquisition, financing and operation and management of generating facilities.
Tenaska has developed approximately 10,500 megawatts (MW) of natural gas-fueled and renewable power projects. Affiliate Tenaska Solar Ventures provides development services for roughly 6,000 MW of renewable solar capacity. Tenaska and its affiliates have managed the acquisition and divestiture of 10,500 MW of energy assets. The current Tenaska operating fleet includes 12 natural gas-fueled and renewable power plants able to generate approximately 8,200 MW combined.
Wartsila
Wärtsilä Energy Business is leading the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future.
We understand, design, build and serve optimal power systems for future generations. Wärtsilä’s solutions provide the needed flexibility to integrate renewables and secure power system reliability – unlocking an optimised energy transition for our customers. Our offering comprises engine-based flexible power plants, energy management systems and storage solutions. We support our customers over the lifecycle of their installations with services that enable increased efficiency and guaranteed performance. Wärtsilä has 71 GW of installed power plant capacity in 180 countries around the world.
Wellhead Electric
Wellhead Electric, with its affiliates, develops, owns and operates nine power generation facilities. WPower, Wellhead’s women-owned business affiliate, currently owns one of the operating projects and two to-be-built solar projects. Over 400 MW from Wellhead-affiliated projects currently are providing California’s electrical system with flexible reliable sources of energy that support the grid and the transition to a cleaner energy future. Wellhead is also developing solar and storage projects critical to achieving the cleaner energy grid. Since starting business in 1982, Wellhead has developed over 20 generating projects.
Wilson Sonsini
For more than 60 years, Wilson Sonsini has represented technology pioneers associated with virtually every milestone innovation, as well as life sciences trailblazers shaping the future of healthcare.
Today, Wilson Sonsini is synonymous with ushering promising and innovative technology and life sciences companies through their business life cycle.
And as our clients have grown, so has our firm. We now represent some of the largest companies in the world—and thousands of the smallest ones, too.
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