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Monday, September 30, 2024
11:00 AM – 5:30 PM MST
Registration Open

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM MST
Eleven Mile Solar Center Tour hosted by Orsted

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
7:00 AM – 6:00 PM MST
Registration Open

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM MST
Networking Breakfast

8:20 AM – 9:15 AM MST
Opening Session
Keynote Speaker: Damien Buie, PhD – Amazon Web Services Energy & Utilities
Speaker: Kelsey Hallahan – American Clean Power Association
Speaker: Frank Macchiarola – American Clean Power Association
Speaker: JC Sandberg – American Clean Power Association
Chair: Rounak Kharait – Ørsted
Chair: Cegeon Chan, PhD – DNV

9:15 AM – 9:45 AM MST
Networking Break & Exhibits

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM MST
Whose Line is it Anyway? Energy Assessment Perspectives from Engineering, Tax Equity, and Operations
Session Chair: Simone Marletti – RWE
Presenter: Ellen Abramowitz – Wells Fargo
Presenter: Haley DiGiovanni – Natural Power
Presenter: Connor Dixon – Black Rock
Presenter: Sanjay Shrestha – SOLV Energy
Solar

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM MST
Wind Turbine Performance Testing—Improving What We Have and the Impatience of the Future
Session Chair: Dale Apgar – AES
Presenter: Andy Chang – ArcVera Renewables
Presenter: Samuel Davoust, PhD – Tipspeed
Presenter: Derek Roberts, PhD – DNV
Wind

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM MST
Transition Break

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST
Beyond Analysis Paralysis—Operational Software and Analytics for BESS Performance Improvements
Session Chair: Clara Midgley, BSME – SparkCognition
Presenter: Valery Kang – ACCURE Battery Intelligence
Presenter: Shanay Kapadia, MS Civil and Environmental Engineering with a focus on Climate – Key Capture Energy
Presenter: Kiran Kumar (he/him/his) – LG Energy Solutions Vertech
Storage

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST
Solar Performance Testing & Optimization
Session Chair: Michael Gostein, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Atonometrics
Presenter: Aslan Golant – Leidos
Presenter: Benjamin J. Mow, MS (he/him/his) – ENGIE NA
Presenter: Jeff D. Newmiller, MSME – DNV
Solar

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM MST
Networking Lunch & Exhibits

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM MST
Changing the Solar Industry One Hail Impact at a Time
Session Chair: Sanket Shah – Array Technologies
Presenter: Alexander Kubiniec – Natural Power
Presenter: Shawn Malone – Orsted
Presenter: Daran Rife (he/him/his) – DNV Energy Systems
Solar

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM MST
Wind Industry Standards Updates
Session Chair: Duane Brown – American Clean Power Association
Presenter: Gregory S. Poulos (he/him/his) – ArcVera Renewables
Presenter: Ellie Weyer – UL Solutions
Wind

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM MST
Transition Break

2:30 PM – 3:45 PM MST
More Time Thinking, Less Time Clicking—Machine Learning Applications in the Wind Industry
Session Chair: Devin Saywers, MS (he/him/his) – Natural Power
Presenter: Katie Brennan, PhD – TGS
Presenter: Matthew Chan – Apex Clean Energy
Presenter: Christopher Hayes – DNV
Presenter: Gibson Kersting – RWE Offshore Wind Services, LLC
Presenter: Mike Optis (he/him/his) – Veer Renewables
Wind

2:30 PM – 3:45 PM MST
The Green Hydrogen Saga
Session Chair: Marcel Mibus – Apex Clean Energy
Presenter: Dan W. Bernadett, P.E. – ArcVera Renewables
Presenter: Kaitlin Brunik – National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Presenter: Shadi Darvish – DNV
Presenter: Aaron T. Perry – REsurety, Inc.
Hydrogen

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM MST
Offshore Wind—Fishing for Solutions to Ocean-Specific Problems
Session Chair: Lou Bowers, MS – Avangrid
Presenter: Cristina Benzo – Vaisala
Presenter: Anthony Kirincich, PhD – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Presenter: Raghu Krishnamurthy – PNNL
Presenter: Elizabeth A. Traiger, Ph.D – DNV
Wind

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM MST
Putting Clean Energy Projects on the Map
Session Chair: Patrick Pyle – Pattern Energy
Presenter: Rachel K. Clement (she/her/hers) – EDF Renewables
Presenter: Daniel Creech – Orsted
Presenter: Michelle Pruse – Pattern Energy
Presenter: Ian Sleeper – Terracon
Multi-Tech

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM MST
Poster & Networking Reception

Wednesday, October 2, 2024
6:30 AM – 7:30 AM MST
Power Up 5K & 2.5K Walk

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM MST
Networking Breakfast

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM MST
Registration Open

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM MST
Advancements in Transmission Technology—Focus on GETs
Session Chair: Sarah Toth – Rocky Mountain Institute
Presenter: Saugata Biswas – GridAstra
Presenter: Ted I. Bloch-Rubin – Smart Wires Inc.
Presenter: Sarah Sofia – REsurety, Inc.
Presenter: Allison Wilkes – LineVision
Transmission

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM MST
Wake Watchers—Insights into Behavior, Modeling, and Impacts of Wakes
Session Chair: Meghan Mitchell – Orsted
Presenter: Nicola Bodini, PhD (he/him/his) – National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Presenter: Praanjal P. Nasery, MS (she/her/hers) – Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Presenter: Nicholas Robinson – UL Solutions
Presenter: Kyle D. Walden – DNV
Wind

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM MST
Networking Break & Exhibits

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM MST
Leveraging Innovative Software Solutions for Enhanced Grid Reliability and Efficient Interconnection Requests
Session Chair: Carrie Zalewski, JD – American Clean Power Association
Presenter: David Bromberg – Pearl Street Technologies
Presenter: Will Gorman, PhD – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Transmission

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM MST
Revolutionizing BESS Design and Optimization
Session Chair: Chinmay Morankar (he/him/his) – WSP
Presenter: Adile Ajaja – EVLO Energy Storage
Presenter: Uday Guntupalli – DNV
Presenter: C. Michael Hoff – American Energy Storage Innovations (AESI)
Storage

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST
Solar Best Practices from Resource Assessment to O&M
Session Chair: William F. Holmgren – DNV Solar Energy Assessment
Presenter: Alexander Kubiniec – Natural Power
Presenter: Keith McIntosh, PhD – PV Lighthouse
Presenter: Abhishek Parikh – EDF Renewables
Presenter: Bill Shisler – Clearway Energy
Solar

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST
Your Project is Operational…Now What? [Operational Assessment]
Session Chair: John Corson
Presenter: Daniel Burtch, M.Sc. – DNV
Presenter: Rob Cirincione – Sunairio
Presenter: Petros Paterakis – RWE Clean Energy
Multi-Tech

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM MST
Networking Lunch & Exhibits

1:30 PM – 2:45 PM MST
Lighting the Way—Lidar Advancements in TI Corrections and Complex Flow
Session Chair: Rachel Redburn – Avangrid
Presenter: Shannon Beebie (she/her/hers) – UL Solutions
Presenter: Andrew Black – Vaisala France
Presenter: Scott Eichelberger, PhD (he/him/his) – TGS
Presenter: Kyle Sun – Natural Power
Presenter: Catherine Taylor-Hell – DNV
Wind

1:30 PM – 2:45 PM MST
State of the Art in PV Modules—What’s Here and What Might be Coming
Session Chair: Paul Wormser – Clean Energy Associates
Presenter: Colin Bailie, PhD (he/him/his) – Tandem PV, Inc.
Presenter: Adam Dietrich
Presenter: Erin Pincombe
Presenter: Gang Shi
Solar

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM MST
Transition Break

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM MST
Addressing Climate Variability and Climate Change Impacts in Clean Energy Resources
Session Chair: Justin Sharp, PhD – EPRI
Presenter: Gil Lizcano (he/him/his) – Climate Scale
Presenter: Jim Wilczak – NOAA
Wind

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM MST
Long-Duration Energy Storage—The Time is Now
Session Chair: Pooja Shah (she/her/hers) – DNV
Presenter: Giovanni Damato (he/him/his) – CMBlu Energy, Inc.
Presenter: Mike Meehan (he/him/his) – Invinity Energy Systems
Presenter: Victor Saade – Calpine
Storage

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM MST
Networking & Ice Cream Bar Break

4:15 PM – 5:30 PM MST
REvolution: It's Time for Timeseries Resource, Energy Yield, and Hybrid Modeling
Session Chair: Gregory S. Poulos (he/him/his) – ArcVera Renewables
Presenter: Gerard Cavero (he/him/his) – Vortex FdC
Presenter: Clay Matheny (he/him/his) – Orsted Americas
Presenter: Genevieve M. Starke, PhD (she/her/hers) – National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Multi-Tech

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM MST
Closing Reception Jam Session