Now the IRA has established a 10-year window for tax credit structures and incentives supporting renewable energy development, long term certainty has gripped the solar and storage market. What financial, developmental, and political opportunities does the decade ahead hold?
Our headline speaker explores the opportunities currently at our fingertips and the opportunities ahead we dare not miss.
Over the course of 2023, the US expects to see more than half of new electric-generating capacity come from solar with 29.1GW forecasted to come from solar and 9.4GW from battery storage as modelled by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This keynote address provides insight into how the sector can boost increased investment and deployment into solar and storage, and the work ongoing across the regulatory landscape to unlock projects:
How are national and regional regulators approaching distributed energy storage, grid investments, grid modernization and payment models?
How does the regulatory landscape differ from state to state and region to region?
How are the economics of projects projected to change as rates, incentives and payment models continue to evolve?
This is your opportunity to have your all your financial questions answered about revenue stacking, credits and applications of the deductions coming out of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
This session offers a live Q&A where attendees are in control of the agenda by bringing their questions related to incentives, adders and credits available through the IRA. Questions will be taken on and around the following topics:
Where are the opportunities for lenders in this new IRA era? Will debt finance play a bigger or a smaller role?
Will tax equity become a more prominent mechanism of connecting capital with projects in the years ahead?
How has banking and interest rate instability impacted solar transaction financing and what do we expect going forward?
Are investors allowing project level debt or just back leverage? And with tax equity’s role taking a larger portion of the capital stack change, does this alter the perspectives of investors?
How much of a role do we expect transferability, direct pay and PTCs to play in financing the future of solar projects in the US?
Are increases in cost of capital, equipment and energy affecting the returns lenders and investors are expecting?
What can be done to bring down the cost of capital?
Appetite for large-scale solar and energy storage continues to grow in the State of New York with another multi-gigawatt renewables tender on the cards over 2024. NYSERDA is announcing the launch of their “storage road map” that includes specific programs designed to support an additional 5 GW of residential, commercial and utility-scale within the State. NYSERDA leadership shares the direction of travel for renewables in New York State for 2024 and beyond.
This session will showcase the latest in interconnection research. What are trends can be seen? How long are interconnection queues in different power markets? What are the timelines you can expect for your pipeline projects?
This roundtable session offers you the chance to network and seek answers to your queries around permitting, interconnection, available participation models, state programs and emerging solar states across a range of power markets.
Each roundtable will be moderated by representatives from each regional power market.
If you are interested in sponsoring, please get in touch with our Head of Sales USA, Dan White: dwhite@solarmedia.co.uk.
This session will begin with quick-fire presentations from each investor on investment opportunities and partnerships they’re currently seeking.
The audience will then split into smaller roundtable discussion groups where investors and developers can discuss business 1-2-1. Each round table will be hosted by an investor and developers will move around the room.
Tickets only available to developers and investors.
If you are interested in sponsoring, please get in touch with our Head of Sales USA, Dan White: dwhite@solarmedia.co.uk.
The need to find a scalable solution offering long-duration and alternatives to lithium-ion energy storage is growing on a daily basis. This session explores what is needed at a policy level, current use cases in the US and the increasing role LDES will feature in power markets.
This session will begin with quick-fire presentations from each LDES technology representative on what the investment opportunities, current markets and use cases.
The audience will then split into smaller roundtable discussion groups where delegates can discuss business 1-2-1. Each round table will be hosted by a LDES technology provider, investor and developer. Delegates will have opportunities to move around the room.
If you are interested in sponsoring, please get in touch with our Head of Sales USA, Dan White: dwhite@solarmedia.co.uk.
The outlook for solar and storage remains strong for the decade ahead, as an additional 358 GW of solar and 111 GW of battery storage capacity is forecasted to be deployed by 2030. Spurring this clean energy boom will be the billions (if not trillions) in private sector investment attracted to the US clean energy market by the IRA's $369 billon dollar package.
This session takes a magnifying glass to the outlook of capital for solar and storage ahead:
What emerging states are investors entering or increasing investment exposure in for solar and storage?
What technologies have now been sufficiently de-risked and are ready to be backed at scale?
What asset classes do investors have the most appetite for going forward?
What are the headwinds ahead to have on the radar heading into 2024?
The session will also showcase polling results taken across the event on the opportunities for solar and storage ahead.