PLATINUM SPONSORS

Alpha Generation

AlphaGen is a strategic partnership formed and owned by an affiliate of ArcLight to own and operate critical power infrastructure to help provide reliable, secure, safe, and sustainable sources of power and meet the growing infrastructure needs created by electrification. AlphaGen is led by a deeply experienced senior management team with a proven track record of strategic, operational, and commercial expertise to help create value and manage risk.  AlphaGen manages over 13,000 megawatts of power infrastructure across four RTO markets (PJM, NYISO, ISONE, and CAISO), and oversees Eastern Generation, Generation Bridge, and Parkway Generation, amongst other ArcLight investments. For more information, please visit www.alphagen.com.

Barclay Damon

Barclay Damon’s nationally recognized energy practice provides customized, targeted solutions to our energy clients across the United States on power generation and distribution, including renewables—hydroelectric, wind (offshore and onshore), solar, storage, and biomass—as well as natural gas and other fossil fuels, nuclear, and transmission and distribution infrastructure. Our Property Tax Team offers a full range of services to our energy clients nationally on due diligence analysis, traditional real property tax management, and property tax compliance.

Boilermakers Local 5

The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers is a diverse union representing over 100,000 workers throughout the United States and Canada in construction, repair, maintenance, manufacturing, professional emergency medical services, and related industries. With its headquarters in Kansas City, Kansas, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers unites 420 Local Lodges throughout North America, providing numerous services for Local Lodges and individual members and uniting all our members in our common endeavor: to improve the lives and lifestyles of our members.

Constellation 

Constellation is the nation’s largest producer of carbon-free energy and a leading competitive retail supplier of power and energy products and services for homes and businesses across the United States. A Fortune 200 company headquartered in Baltimore, Constellation's generation fleet produces enough energy to power 15 million homes and is helping to accelerate the nation’s transition to clean energy with more than 32,400 megawatts of capacity and annual output that is 90 percent carbon-free.

IBEW

The IBEW’s NYS Association of Electrical Workers represents over 65,000 members across NYS who work in a wide variety of fields including utilities, electrical construction, construction of wind, solar installations and battery storage, telecommunications, broadcasting, manufacturing, railroads, and government. The IBEW takes pride in providing a high quality skilled workforce that meets top safety standards.

Invenergy

Invenergy develops, owns, and operates large-scale renewable and other clean generation and storage facilities worldwide. Invenergy has a proven track record in establishing and maintaining longstanding, profitable relationships with utilities, suppliers, and the communities in which our projects are located. Invenergy has successfully developed 191 projects totaling more than 30,200 MW of utility-scale renewable and natural gas-fueled power generation facilities.

New York State LECET

NEW YORK STATE LECET (LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION AND EDUCATION TRUST) is a labor-management partnership between our affiliated LIUNA Laborers’ locals and its signatory contractors. We work together to strengthen our collective position in the construction market, identify new and emerging markets, and capitalize on those opportunities. We provide one-stop shopping for innovative marketing and advertising strategies, government agency relationships, market-related legislation and regulatory initiatives, community and business alliances, and a variety of unique job tracking services.

TigerGenCo

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners is a leading global infrastructure investment platform established in 2006. The team is comprised of 100+ professionals with 40+ dedicated investment professionals based across three primary offices in New York, London and Melbourne with additional offices in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Houston, Toronto, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Mumbai. MSIP focused on the acquisition of private infrastructure assets with the potential for value creation through active management, located primarily within the OECD jurisdictions.

GOLD SPONSORS

Brookfield Renewable

Brookfield Renewable U.S., based in New York City, is a leading owner, operator and developer of renewable power, delivering innovative solutions that accelerate the world towards a sustainable, low-carbon future. Our diversified portfolio of hydropower, wind, solar and energy storage facilities extends across 34 states, totaling approximately 8,205 megawatts of generating capacity

Competitive Power Ventures

CPV Group LP, a partnership majority owned by OPC Energy Ltd., has 25 years of unprecedented success in the development and operation of highly efficient and low emitting electric generation and renewable projects in the United States. CPV is focused on applying its development, financial and project management expertise to advance the next generation of technologies. After bringing on 6.8 GW of natural gas, wind, and solar generation since 2010 and with a current pipeline of over 10 GW of renewable and dispatchable generation projects, including utility-scale carbon capture, CPV is well positioned to help drive the nation’s decarbonization goals forward. 

Customized Energy Solutions

Customized Energy Solutions is at the forefront of competitive energy markets. Established in 1998, CES was created to assist clients in managing the changes in the wholesale and retail electric markets. As the industry restructured, many participants recognized the value of creating sound market rules and staying abreast of market changes. Thus, Customized Energy Solutions was created to address the need to simplify, analyze, and influence the markets on behalf of our clients. Our clients can focus on running their businesses, while we focus on removing barriers to them doing so.

EDR

Founded in 1979, EDR is a Woman-Owned Business with offices across the Northeast, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic. Committed to sustainable, multidisciplinary solutions, EDR collaborates with clients and partners to deliver innovative services in landscape architecture, engineering, environmental, cultural resources, community planning, visualization, and GIS. With over 25 years of experience in environmental consulting, EDR’s team of experts provides the knowledge and support needed to responsibly develop transmission, solar, wind, and battery storage projects that advance a sustainable energy future.

JERA Americas

JERA Americas is supporting an energy transition in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. 
The Company is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based JERA, which stands for Japan’s Energy for a New Era, and 
produces about 30% of all electricity in Japan. JERA is committed to achieving net zero CO2 emissions 
from its domestic and overseas businesses by 2050 and is contributing to the development of a 
sustainable society.

Moxie Strategies

Moxie Strategies is a data-driven boutique firm specializing in strategic communications, advertising and public affairs. Moxie was launched in 2024 by industry leaders who bring their expertise from government and private sector firms. Our professionals have decades of experience and unique depth in navigating challenges in energy policy, labor government, and media.

New York State Pipe Trades Association 

The New York State Pipe Trades Association is comprised of 13 local unions consisting of 25,000 members who perform plumbing, heating, cooling and sprinkler installations in the construction and service segments of the pipefitting industry throughout the State of New York.

Read and Laniado, LLP

The Firm is actively involved in matters before the New York Independent System Operator (“NYISO”), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), the New York State Office of Renewal Energy Siting, the New York State Public Service Commission, the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment (the Siting Board), the Department of Environmental Conservation, municipal planning boards and state and federal courts.  The Firm represents a variety of market participants, including generating station, solar, wind and energy storage permitting, and transmission line developers, and provides services concerning environmental, financing, asset purchases and sales transactions, eminent domain and real property matters.  Read and Laniado has worked with and advised both lender’s and borrower’s counsel, as well as industrial development authority counsel, in financial transactions.  The Firm also has extensive experience with land use, zoning, and municipal laws relating to the provision of water, electricity, steam and natural gas.

SILVER SPONSORS

ACE NY

The Alliance for Clean Energy New York (ACE NY) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting clean energy, energy efficiency, a healthy environment, and a strong economy for the Empire State and is New York’s premier advocate for the rapid adoption of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. www.aceny.org 

Couch White, LLP

Couch White, LLP is a full-service law firm dedicated to delivering high-quality, cost-effective legal services to public and private sector clients. With our headquarters in Albany, NY, and satellite offices in Saratoga Springs, NY; New York City, NY; and Hartford, CT; the Firm has more than 35 experienced attorneys and a full complement of paralegal assistants and support staff committed to meeting our clients' needs. Couch White has extensive experience in a broad array of practice areas and offers a full range of legal services for the evaluation, development and implementation of solutions to legal problems. The Firm has unparalleled expertise in handling high-complexity, large-scale legal matters for national and local clients within: Energy, Renewable Energy Transactions, Environmental, Construction, Commercial and Complex Litigation, Real Estate, Corporate and Commercial Transactions, and Trust and Estate Planning and Administration.

Engie

More than 1,500 commercial, industrial and institutional customers in New York turn to ENGIE Resources for electricity supply solutions.  Since 2002, ENGIE Resources has been offering customers the opportunity to lock in prices, float the market, or create a solution that includes both.

Recently, as America’s Energy Greentailer™  we help customers address how their electricity  is sourced, in addition to how much it costs.

As a counterparty with an investment grade credit rating, we can access wholesale markets that allow us to structure risk management products based on customer objectives.  Our customer care team is mostly in-house, and our Net Promoter Score exceeds the industry average. 

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Harris Beach Murtha

Harris Beach Murtha is more than a law firm. We are a strategic partner dedicated to providing legal services that align with your business goals and spur success. We are a one-stop shop for problem solving – a mid-size firm with full-service capabilities that help your business navigate legal challenges and manage day-to-day operations. 

A forward-thinking and innovative partner with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, our New York roots reach back to 1856 and we have had ties to New England since 1936. We are a regional heavyweight firm with more than 250 attorneys across 16 offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia.

Led by the only former head of both the New York State PSC and NYSERDA, our multi-disciplinary Energy Industry Team combines the knowledge and experience of a broad range of relevant practice areas helping public and private entities save money, manage risk and capitalize on an ever-changing energy landscape. Harris Beach Murtha helps organizations navigate the legal issues surrounding energy initiatives and take full advantage of leading governmental energy, environmental and economic development programs. We take an interdisciplinary, no time wasted, team approach to crafting comprehensive legal solutions as unique as the energy industry developers, producers, investors and end users we represent. Our representation spans all aspects of federal and state regulatory proceedings, including generation siting, utility rates, permitting, and zoning and land use.

New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)

The NYISO is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for operating the state’s bulk electricity grid, administering New York’s competitive wholesale electricity markets, conducting comprehensive long-term planning for the state’s electric power system, and advancing the technological infrastructure of the electric system serving the Empire State.

The Roffe Group of Robinson + Cole

As New York's energy policies, law and regulations continue to rapidly evolve, Robinson + Cole’s Energy Group has emerged as one of the leaders in the state’s fast-changing energy marketplace. Attorneys, lobbyists and analysts in their energy practice assist clients in all aspects of the competitive energy industries. Their group combines extensive transactional, regulatory and legislative experience across the legal disciplines vital to successful energy projects, including construction, technology, project development, project finance and securitization, tax, general finance, environmental, real estate, and land use.  The members of the Energy Group appear before the New York Public Service Commission and represent clients in a variety of energy-relations matters.

BRONZE SPONSORS

Autumn Lane Enegy Consulting LLC

Offering a range of consulting services to clients in the energy industry based on my experience working for and with regulated utilities, Independent Power Producers, retail electricity suppliers, Regional Transmission Organizations and state and federal regulators, and in developing regulatory policy for wholesale electricity markets and state grid modernization initiatives. Specializing in the intersection where new technologies and business models meet competitive wholesale electricity markets.

Women's Energy Network

The Women’s Energy Network (WEN) is an international organization of professionals who work across the energy value chain. For more than 30 years, WEN has been instrumental in the advancement of women in energy by developing a strong global network that has grown to more than 7,000 members. The Greater Albany Chapter of WEN was founded in 2018 with the mission of providing networking opportunities and fostering career and leadership development to members who work in and around the energy industry. Membership for the Greater Albany Chapter of WEN is open to women who work in the energy field, including government affairs professionals, lawyers, environmental groups, and other affiliated careers, as well as women who work in state government. For more information, please visit https://www.womensenergynetwork.org/greateralbany

MEDIA SPONSOR

RTO Insider is your Eyes and Ears for the organized markets.  Covering over 500 meetings a year we provide readers with in-depth, unbiased coverage of stakeholder discussions.  This is must-have reporting.