Events

The WRISE Leadership Forum is a unique experience, combining professional development with tools to advance renewable energy. Join professionals from across the country as we discuss current renewable energy trends and policy issues; all while gaining valuable tools to enhance your career and build your companies and organizations.

The North American Energy Markets Association’s (NAEMA) 2024 Fall Conference offers an extremely cost-effective opportunity for members and other conference participants to meet and network with counterparties and colleagues during one trip. The conference agenda and schedule of events includes timely and informative presentations on key issues by industry experts and thought-leaders. And, a great variety of exceptional social events are also included during the Conference.

It’s an exciting time for renewable energy in Illinois! State and federal investments are pouring into the renewable energy sector, providing opportunities for significant growth. But rapid growth comes with significant challenges. Illinois faces challenges related to interconnection, grid modernization, community transitions, permitting, equitable workforce growth, and more. Attend the Illinois Renewable Energy Conference to explore innovative solutions to these challenges. We are the only conference focusing specifically on the challenges, advances, and futures of renewable energy in Illinois. Our annual gathering brings nearly 300 attendees and 40 speakers from all realms of the industry together to push for growth in clean energy in the state and region.

Join us on October 1 & 2 to explore how Illinois can create an equitable and sustainable future through renewable energy!

Conference Overview

Michigan EIBC is excited to welcome our members, Michigan legislators and state officials, and the general public to our 12th Annual Michigan Energy Innovators Gala on September 25, 2024 at The Gem Theatre in Detroit. Our gala is a wonderful opportunity to network with colleagues, policymakers, and industry experts, all while celebrating the individuals and businesses who succeeded in growing Michigan’s advanced energy sector.

Again this year, Michigan EIBC will present awards and honor Michigan’s leading energy innovators. Award winners are nominated by their colleagues in the advanced energy sector and voted on by the Michigan EIBC membership. Awards will be presented in the following categories:

Project of the Year
Business of the Year
Public Official of the Year
Innovators Hall of Fame

Load growth in the Lone Star State has exceeded all expectations. Large energy users like crypto, data centers, and post-IRA manufacturing as well as the state’s rising population are creating massive load increases. Despite great uncertainty caused by the impacts of recently implemented reforms, still-to-be implemented reforms, and proposed-but-not-yet-enacted legislation, the situation holds enormous opportunities for renewables development.

To seize these opportunities, however, a deep understanding of changes ongoing in the Texas power markets is required. Business planning has never been more challenging. The best possible comprehension of numerous rule reform impacts on the Texas power grid and Phase 2 of ERCOT market redesign is essential. At the same time, developers, financiers, and other stakeholders need accurate analyses of the consequences of proposed new policies, extreme weather, and price volatility in the ERCOT market.

Infocast’s Texas Clean Energy Summit is the best place to meet and learn from policy makers, as well as the state’s most active developers, asset owners, QSEs, offtakers, financiers, investors, and other key players. This remarkable group will discuss the booming opportunities and looming challenges in today’s renewables environment. This is a can’t miss opportunity to get the most advanced current understanding of critical issues like:

• PCM and other ERCOT market rule changes, and how they will affect procedures, expectations, and the fundamentals that will drive the market in 2024 and beyond
• The current market dynamics, business models, and financing environment of wind, solar, storage, and hybrid projects, including how the IRA’s changes affect projects in Texas
• The new firming requirements affecting wind and solar – will this super-charge the already big storage boom in the state?
• Today’s strategies for mitigating transmission congestion and basis risk while balancing reliability issues, the integration of DERs & VPPs, and preparing for the future of the Texas grid
• The needs and expectations of large energy users and other offtaker procurement decisions, as well as how they affect the grid, financeability, load projections, and contract negotiations
• Proposed new state legislation affecting both power prices and renewables projects – hear expert opinions on timelines, potential stumbling blocks, and strategies to move projects forward

Join key players in Texas renewable energy at the most popular event among developers for critical information and networking opportunities. Review our detailed program agenda, remarkable collection of speakers, and reserve your place today!

RE+ 24 brings the modern energy industry together to foster a cleaner future and marks its 20th year as the largest and most comprehensive event in North America for the clean energy industry. What began as Solar Power International (SPI) has evolved into RE+, uniting an extensive alliance of renewable energy leaders for multiple days of programming and networking opportunities. Today, RE+ incorporates business opportunities and education content across the clean energy industry including solar, energy storage, hydrogen, microgrids, EV charging and infrastructure, and wind energy.

What You’ll Learn

• Denver alone has a total of 98MW of data center inventory, with an additional 22MW under construction – how much more growth can we expect to see in the Denver and Colorado Springs market?
• How are the challenges around price and power limitations in primary markets impacting secondary markets like Denver? What challenges in these markets can we expect to see in the coming year?
• What types of customers are driving demand in the region? How is it changing?
• Where are we in the AI hype cycle and what can we expect to see across markets for AI applications?
• How are operators thinking about liquid cooling and whether or not to apply it in their data centers? How are they incorporating flexibility into the facilities for future changes?
• How are developers and service providers working to bring more capacity and increasing power consumption while solving for sustainability? Can it be done effectively?
• Attendees will learn about the design and engineering trends that are taking place given the continued supply chain disruption and the increasing commoditization of AI.

How You’ll Do More Business From Attending

Get up to speed on one of the fastest growing tier II data center markets, learn what customers are looking for and make better business decisions based on the right insights.

Relevant Industry News and Developments

• STACK Infrastructure raises $290M in debt financing to build more data centers
• Data centers are proliferating. So are concerns about their effects on Colorado’s environment 
• As data centers go nuclear to meet AI power demand, worries grow about the impact on everyone else
• Rising land prices spell trouble for some data center developers

Who You’ll Meet During Networking

Investors, vice president of design and construction, owners, head of acquisitions, providers, contractors, engineers, brokers, developers

This in-person event is the 5th Women Surveyors Summit. This is a “for women, by women” event and will include opportunities for continuing education. 12 PDH’s will be available.

Infocast’s Solar + Wind Finance & Investment Summit in 2024 gathered an unprecedented number of leading industry players to network, make deals, and get fully briefed on the renewables markets. This exceptional event is back to once again gather a who’s who for phenomenal deal-making and strategizing opportunities.

Join us for 2025’s summit March 16-19, with an exclusive pre-summit evening of keynote sessions followed by a can’t-miss welcome reception on March 16. Mark these dates and get ready for the most powerful networking place for top-level renewables and financial executives and capitalize on today’s booming renewables market!

Two years into the Inflation Reduction Act and the industry is adapting to expanded tax credits and the new tax credit sales market with vigor, as inflation is easing and interest rates are poised to lower. However, tariff concerns, transmission and interconnection reforms, and the national election are introducing uncertainty into plans and expectations industry-wide.

This is a critical year to attend Solar + Wind Finance & Investment Summit for a deep dive into today’s challenges affecting valuation assumptions and how financing is incorporating new structures and risks. You’ll get insider tips on how to successfully navigate these waters, capitalize on the booming opportunities of the future, handle the lingering difficulties of the present, and meet everyone you need to know to take maximum advantage of your opportunities to develop, finance, and invest in today’s renewable energy projects.

Mingle with other C-Suite executives at the preeminent networking event for leaders in finance, solar, wind, and storage, top-rated by attendees as the place where deals and valuable business connections are made. Get the latest update on the finance and investment landscape, gain prescient insights into market trends, and network with the “highest quality of industry participants on the conference circuit.”

Bump into all the right people at the premier source of information for shaping your organization’s strategic direction – Let’s reconnect once again!

Faced with an unprecedented expansion of energy demand across Texas, driven by new data centers, manufacturing facilities, electrification of the oil industry in the Permian Basin and the state’s growing population, the ERCOT market must generate, transmit and distribute 152 GWs of reliable power by 2030, up from the 89 GWs of today. The need to rapidly buildup system capacity is more intense than ever, along with attracting massive investment to deliver this avalanche of new generation, storage, transmission and distribution capacity. Simultaneously, the many market and rule reforms mandated by 2023 legislation (including the $5B Texas Energy Fund), aimed at increasing generation capacity and operational reliability, are being rolled out. What will the ERCOT power market of the future look like? Where will opportunities, challenges and risks lie? Anyone engaged with the ERCOT power market would have plenty of questions in such an “interesting” time.

Fortunately, Infocast has the answers. At our ERCOT Market Summit 2025 we have put together a truly remarkable discussion by Texas policy makers, regulators, utility executives, renewable and dispatchable generation developers, financiers and other experts of what the ERCOT of 2025 and beyond will look like and act like. They will highlight opportunities, challenges and strategies being utilized by leading players.

Infocast’s ERCOT Market Summit 2025 will provide an unparalleled deep dive into resource adequacy; grid upgrades; power prices; project siting, interconnection and bankability; and how to best meet the shifting needs of commercial, industrial, and retail customers.

This unparalleled group of experts and insiders will:

• Share the latest information on policy developments in the 89th Legislative Session, their potential impacts on the ERCOT market, and how market participants are responding
• Assess how the new regulatory and market rule changes being implemented now will impact ERCOT in 2025 and beyond
• Hear how well the Texas Energy Fund is working to drive investment in dispatchable assets
• Explore the opportunities and challenges of reliably supplying power to new AI data centers and large flexible loads
• Examine how interconnection and planning processes are changing to deal with the sudden new reality of supplying over 60 GW of additional load
• Gain the perspectives of financiers on how policy and regulatory risks are affecting their decision-making regarding financing dispatchable generation, wind, solar, and storage projects in ERCOT
• Explore the huge opportunities and dangers of developing storage in ERCOT
• Evaluate how proposed solutions to increase capacity and improve reliability could affect energy costs and asset profitability

Last year Infocast’s ERCOT Market Summit reached new heights of attendance and audience satisfaction. Attend the ERCOT Market Summit along with 800 of your peers and take advantage of your best opportunity to connect with key players and hear their plans for the upcoming year, while obtaining critical insights into the business environment of the next five years.