The United States is investing billions of dollars to scale strategic industries across the country. Federal tax credits, grants, and loans are also attracting foreign direct investment to the U.S. for clean energy industries, creating thousands of new jobs and delivering benefits for local communities. Investors with headquarters in foreign countries accounted for over 45% […]

With some provisions of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law set to expire as soon as 2027, many – industry and academia, investors and policymakers – are using lessons from BIL/IRA “1.0” to create new tools, expand existing ones, and place new bets on technologies now ready to graduate and scale-up all along the research, development, demonstration, […]

Investing in decarbonization presents both significant opportunities and complex challenges as the transition to a low-carbon economy gains momentum. Leading equity investors are playing a crucial role in funding the infrastructure required to drive this transition. This session will bring together top investors in decarbonization to share their insights on navigating the evolving landscape of […]

Since the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act the United States has made strong commitments to place based innovation, positioning our country to lead in areas key to our clean energy future such as batteries, critical materials, and small modular nuclear reactors.  This panel will start with a recap of the recent NSF EDA Roadmap […]

Before renewable generation can be connected to the grid, these supply resources must undergo a series of grid impact studies before they can be built. This process – called the interconnection queue -- has become a key bottleneck in the deployment of clean energy. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to address these long-standing delays […]

The IRA introduced the ability for companies to directly transfer their federal income tax credits to third parties for eleven different clean energy credits. Tax credit transferability is simpler than traditional tax equity dealmaking and implicates a larger number of corporate players, improving developers’ access to capital. This panel will highlight how buyers and sellers […]

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act have provided an unprecedented amount of support for the deployment of clean energy and decarbonization technologies and have catalyzed $6 worth of private sector investment for every $1 of government investment. Yet, our nation still faces challenges in reaching our greenhouse gas reduction targets in the […]

Since 2020, the private sector has announced over $980 billion in investments to construct new manufacturing and clean energy developments in the US, catalyzed by over $630 billion in public support through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science […]

As decarbonization projects scale up, infrastructure debt has become an essential piece of the financing puzzle. This session will bring together leading private credit lenders in decarbonization to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face when structuring deals to fund the energy transition. With a focus on how private lenders evaluate risk and structure investments […]

Near-Term Power Solutions for Load Growth: The Next Five Years "With load growth forecasts suggesting a rise in peak demand of 10-15%+ by 2030, a portfolio approach to investing in scaling available technologies across the entire power system is necessary. DOE’s Liftoff reports and National Lab analysis have found the US could add 100s of […]

Community Benefit Plans are required for all DOE grant and loan applications. They offer a strategy to de-risk large clean energy projects by conducting meaningful engagement with communities, investing in building a skilled and committed workforce for timely project completion, while providing benefits to disadvantaged communities. Join this session to hear from Department of Energy […]

Investing in domestic industries alone is not sufficient to realize the modern U.S. industrial strategy. Energy minerals, trade, and development finance will need to come together if we are to source the materials needed for both domestic and international transitions to clean energy. The U.S. is leveraging trade policy to level the global playing field, […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents new opportunities to radically accelerate the speed at which we can build infrastructure by bringing new capabilities to complex review, siting, and permitting processes. Siting and permitting challenges can significantly reduce deployment potential. For example, the National Renewable Energy Lab found that geothermal energy deployment is reduced by as much as […]

In an era of surging electricity demand, accelerated deployment of distributed energy resources, and growing threats and challenges to the electricity delivery infrastructure, the electric power sector must deploy new strategies and technologies to adapt to these rapidly changing conditions. Utilities, regulators, and the broader ecosystem will need to build new capabilities and processes that […]

Unlocking the capital investment needed to deploy clean energy technologies at scale and at pace requires identifying, allocating, and managing risk extremely adeptly. Experts from leading insurers, reinsurers, and managing general agents (MGAs) who specialize in managing risk come together on this panel to discuss innovative and collaborative approaches to derisking, accelerating, and reducing the […]