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grid edge innovation summit 2019
Sponsorship
Signature Sponsor
IBM is a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company headquartered in Armonk, NY. It is the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, serving clients in more than 170 countries. With 25 consecutive years of patent leadership, IBM Research is the world's largest corporate research organization with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents. For more information, visit www.ibm.com.
Platinum Sponsors
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Faraday Grid is a private, investor-backed company on a global mission to enable energy systems fit for the future. Faraday Grid transforms the existing electricity grid into a dynamic platform for energy with limitless capacity for innovation.
The Faraday technology encompasses hardware, firmware and software that integrates into existing infrastructure and unlocks a highly flexible and productive system – similarly to how internet routers connected into the telephone system and enabled the internet.
Faraday is expanding rapidly and partnering with leading companies around the world. With offices in the UK, US, mainland Europe and Australia, Faraday’s purpose is to enable sustainable prosperity for everyone.
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Opus One Solutions is a software engineering and solutions company with the vision of a Connected Distributed Energy Network. Through GridOS®, its intelligent energy networking platform, Opus One optimizes complex power flows so that it can deliver real-time energy management to distribution utilities and other managers of distributed energy assets. GridOS is modular, scalable, and integrates seamlessly with existing data systems to unlock greater potential for distributed energy resources, including renewable generation, energy storage, and responsive demand. GridOS also facilitates the management of microgrids — from homes to businesses to communities — for unparalleled grid resiliency and value to the electricity customer. To learn more, visit www.opusonesolutions.com and follow us on twitter: @OpusOneSolns.
As a leader in medium voltage switching and protection and a top innovator of microgrids, S&C Electric Company is committed to helping keep the lights on for billions of energy consumers around the world. Backed by a deep tenured understanding of the electric grid, S&C has a proven track record of 100+ years of developing new, innovative solutions to help ensure continued breakthrough solutions for grid protection and reliability. We pride ourselves on offering whole solutions resulting in smooth deployment of every aspect of a project. S&C will continue to provide advanced solutions as the electric grid transforms throughout the 21st century.
Innovation Alley Sponsor
Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo & Company provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through 7,800 locations, more than 13,000 ATMs and the internet. Wells Fargo takes an ecosystem approach to supporting clean technology – providing financing and other services for cleantech businesses, testing and adopting new technologies within our footprint, and accelerating cleantech and agtech startups through philanthropic initiatives such as the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator.
Gold Sponsors
AutoGrid builds software applications that utilize artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and IoT technologies to enable a smarter and cleaner distributed energy world. The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver clean, affordable and reliable energy by managing networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid has more than 3,500 megawatts of flexible capacity from DERs under contract and its customer list includes National Grid, NextEra Energy, E.ON, Total, Xcel Energy, China Light and Power and over 30 other leading global energy companies around the world.
Centrica Business Solutions operates across the UK and Ireland, Europe and North America and is at the forefront of the distributed energy market. With price predictability a thing of the past, increasing volatility of supply, and new energy technologies emerging, we provide energy expertise to help our customers become economically and environmentally sustainable.
Through our acquisitions of market leading energy specialists ENER-G, Panoramic Power, REstore, Vista Solar, CES Energy and SmartWatt, we can provide the innovative thinking as well as the energy insights, optimisation and on-site generation solutions our customers need to achieve their goals.
Innowatts is a leading provider of AMI-enabled predictive analytics and AI-based solutions for utilities, energy retailers and smart energy communities. To date, the Innowatts eUtility™ technology platform has enabled over 21 million + energy consumers and their energy providers with access to lower energy costs and a more reliable and personalized energy experience. Innowatts is backed by Shell Technology Ventures, Iberdrola and Energy and Environment Investment (Japan).
Landis+Gyr is the leading global provider of integrated energy management solutions for the utility sector. Offering one of the broadest portfolios of products and services to address complex industry challenges, the company delivers comprehensive solutions for the foundation of a smarter grid, including smart metering, distribution network sensing and automation tools, load control and analytics. Landis+Gyr operates in over 30 countries across five continents. With sales of approximately USD 1.7 billion, the company employs c. 6,000 people with the sole mission of helping the world manage energy better. More information is available at www.landisgyr.com.
National Grid is an electricity and gas company that connects more than seven million customers to vital energy sources through its networks in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The company is at the heart of one of the greatest challenges facing our society - to create new, sustainable energy solutions for the future and developing an energy system that underpins economic prosperity in the 21st century. National Grid holds a vital position at the center of a complex energy system and embraces its role in being the ultimate integrator of a new distributed energy world.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is the U.S. DOE’s primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency R&D. NREL advances the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, and renewable power technologies and provides the knowledge to integrate and optimize energy systems. The new Energy Systems Integration Facility at NREL provides an integrated energy system platform for the research community and commercial partners to work with us to develop and evaluate integrated systems approaches.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has built a multidisciplinary team of seasoned attorneys with extensive experience developing and financing major energy and infrastructure projects around the world. We bring to each of our assignments a commercial-minded understanding of the needs of different project participants, and we craft solutions that balance and align conflicting interests in order to get projects financed and built.
Silver Sponsors
Intelligent grid-connected devices provide increasing amounts of data allowing companies to better serve their customers—whether through more efficient operations or new, innovative products and services—but these devices also are increasing concerns over consumer data privacy. This is why DataGuard, the nation's first energy data privacy program, was developed. DataGuard is a voluntary program that provides high-level principles around the treatment, retention, and disposal of customer energy usage data. The concepts and principles were created by industry stakeholders and provide a framework for establishing practices that protect the access, use, and sharing of customer data. In today's fast-changing energy landscape, your customers need to know that their data will continue to be protected and treated responsibly. DataGuard allows you to do just that.
Plug and Play is the ultimate innovation platform, bringing together the best startups, investors, and the world’s largest corporations. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we have built accelerator programs, corporate innovation services, and an in-house VC to make technological advancement progress faster than ever before. To give startups the necessary resources to succeed in Silicon Valley and beyond, we are now active in 25 locations globally, including U.S., China, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Singapore, Indonesia, and Mexico.
Vermaland is one of the largest land owners in Arizona. Our mission is to procure high quality parcels of land throughout metro Phoenix with the ultimate goal of development. Our development portfolio includes land uses ranging from commercial, residential, and agricultural developments to utility scale renewable energy projects.
Emerging Tech Sponsors
Sentient Energy is the premier Intelligent Sensing Platform Provider for power utilities. Sentient provides the industry’s only Grid Analytics System that covers the entire distribution network with quickly deployed intelligent sensors and analytics that identify and analyze potential faults and other grid events. Sentient Energy leads the market with the largest mesh network line sensor deployments in North America helping utilities deliver power reliably and safely. Sentient partners with leading utility network providers including Landis + Gyr, Itron, Verizon, AT&T and Telus. For more information visit www.sentient-energy.com.
Grid Edge Innovators
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AMPLY is focused on transforming the commercial transportation sector by removing the challenges, surprises, and learning curve that fleet operators often face when switching to electricity as a fuel.
EGM’s Meta-Alert™ system provides a whole grid probing system, from its power source (generation, storage) through transmission lines and down to the medium voltage distribution infrastructure. The system, chosen by leading power utilities in Europe and the U.S., processes the collected big data and produces usable insight, which enables optimal grid management and operation, to address issues such as DER integration, grid proactive and reactive maintenance, sophisticated energy trade programs and EV infrastructure.
EnergyRM is a cloud-based energy analytics software company. Our technology is developed by respected energy industry experts, building science engineers, and tech veterans. We are passionate about our work, and believe in its importance and positive impact.
Established in 2011, ESS Inc. manufactures low-cost, long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications requiring 4+ hours of flexible energy capacity. The Energy WarehouseTM (EW) and Energy Center TM, use iron, salt, and water for the electrolyte, and deliver an environmentally safe, long-life energy storage solution. Our non-corrosive, non-toxic, non-flammable chemistry eliminates costly fire suppression systems. Our customers benefit from increased power density and reduced O&M cost over our platform’s 20+ year lifespan.
Growing Energy Labs, Inc., (GELI) provides software and business solutions to design, automate, and manage battery energy storage systems and energy networks solutions. Geli’s suite of products creates an ecosystem where project developers, OEMs, financiers, and project operators can deploy advanced energy storage systems using a seamless hardware-agnostic platform. Founded in 2010, Geli’s software actively manages megawatts of projects deployed around the world.
Geli has been pioneering the Internet of Energy since 2010. Geli-enabled systems have been deployed in commercial & industrial facilities, residential developments, EV charging infrastructure, and microgrids around the globe.
Go Electric Inc. is a provider of turnkey microgrid solutions that deliver uninterruptible power to commercial facilities and military bases, lower energy costs, integrate renewables and provide grid-stabilizing energy services to utilities. Go Electric has delivered microgrids across the USA and Canada. More information about Go Electric can be found at www.goelectricinc.com
NETenergy is a thermal energy storage company, based in Chicago. NETenergy has created a thermal battery using its Black Ice technology, that works much like an electrical battery, except it stores thermal energy. By utilizing NETenergy’s thermal battery to store cold energy, building owners can save 30% or more on their energy usage and reduce carbon emissions by 50%.
Station A is a software company with a mission to automate clean energy development to enable a carbon-neutral future. Our platform provides clean energy developers and energy users the insight they need to take any building to zero carbon emissions. Our growing user network works together to originate, design, and execute clean energy projects.
Supporting Organizations
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Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) is a national association of business leaders who are making the global energy system more secure, clean, and affordable. AEE engages in policy advocacy at the federal, state, and regulatory levels. Our mission is transforming public policy to enable rapid growth of advanced energy companies. AEE recently introduced PowerSuite, a robust set of tools to search, track, and collaborate on energy legislation and utility regulatory proceedings from across the country with one, easy-to-use interface. Learn more at www.aee.net
The Clean Coalition is a nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and a modern grid through technical, policy, and project development expertise. We drive policy innovation to realize the full potential of distributed energy resources, and we work with utilities to develop Community Microgrids that prove local renewables connected to the distribution grid can provide at least 25% of the total electric energy consumed while at least maintaining grid reliability and power quality.
Clean Energy Trust brings cleantech innovations to market by finding, funding, and growing high-impact cleantech startups from the Midwest. Structured as a nonprofit, Clean Energy Trust's uses its 501vc® model to make seed investments and provide hands-on support to help entrepreneurs scale and succeed. Through its work, Clean Energy Trust demonstrates that investing in and supporting early-stage cleantech innovation can yield financial returns and create positive impact on both the economy and environment.
Cleantech Law Partners is a full-service law firm dedicated exclusively to the legal and policy needs of renewable energy project developers and cleantech companies. CLP helps renewable energy developers, investors, manufacturers, and entrepreneurs obtain permits, negotiate key legal documents, secure intellectual property rights, and manage financial transactions. CLP also advises clients on corporate and tax matters, and serves as outside in-house counsel.
Cleantech San Diego is a nonprofit member organization that positions the greater San Diego region as a global leader in the cleantech economy. The organization achieves this by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, leading advocacy efforts to promote cleantech priorities, and encouraging investment in the San Diego region. Cleantech San Diego’s membership includes more than 100 local businesses, universities, governments, and nonprofits committed to advancing sustainable solutions for the benefit of the economy and the environment.
The German American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (GACC) acts as a link between German and American companies and organizations. The GACC is the first point of contact for German companies interested in doing business in the U.S., particularly on the West Coast, providing assistance through a variety of services. The Chamber connects German decision-makers with their U.S. counterparts and its goal is to bring German and American companies together, and thus, foster, strengthen and advance bilateral trade between Germany and the U.S.
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The Power Association of Northern California is a non-profit trade organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of the power industry in California and all of its component parts. PANC sponsors monthly luncheon meetings and educational seminars to help professionals better understand the challenges confronting the power industry. Monthly luncheon meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month in San Francisco. Guest speakers include legislators, CEO’s, Commissioners and other experts from both the regulated and unregulated side of the industry.
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)—an independent nonprofit founded in 1982—transforms global energy use to create a clean, prosperous, and secure low-carbon future. It engages businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to accelerate the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. RMI has offices in Basalt and Boulder, Colorado; New York City; Washington, D.C.; and Beijing.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) fosters an influential network of professionals to further the roles of women in growing the green economy and making a positive impact on the environment. Founded in 2011, WCS is a nonprofit organization made up up over 1500 professional women and men working to build the green economy. Our members range from the students and entry level professionals, to Founders, C-Suite executives and investors.
WRISE was founded in 2005 and works to promote the education, professional development, and advancement of women to achieve a strong diversified workforce and support a robust renewable energy economy. Since that time, WRISE has grown to an organization with local chapters in the US and Canada; national programming that includes activities at renewable trade shows across the country, the Leadership Forum, Take Charge Workshops, mentoring, professional development and webinar series; and a growing grassroots network of more than 6,500 women and men.
Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) is a non-profit organization with more than 40,000 members worldwide. By providing a forum for networking and career development through social, educational and civic service opportunities, YPE aims to facilitate the advancement of young professionals in the global energy industry.
Media Partners
AltEnergyMag is technical resource full of News, Articles and Interviews covering the trends and breakthroughs in the Alternative Energy industry, with an emphasis on the state of the art and on the horizon technologies that have strong prospects of commercialization.
The Energy News Network is a nonprofit news site dedicated to keeping stakeholders, policymakers, and citizens informed of the important changes taking place in the transition to a clean energy system. Launched in 2010 as Midwest Energy News, the Energy News Network now offers four regional — Midwest Energy News, Southeast Energy News, Western Energy News and Northeast Energy News. Southeast Energy News began in 2015, and Western and Northeast Energy News were added in 2018.