How do we make America’s green bank a success?
The on-the-ground realities of deploying the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF)
America’s green banks and local lenders are preparing to unleash a wave of capital for clean energy projects nationwide. The $27 billion deployed under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) is expected to drive $150 billion to underserved communities and small businesses for solar, storage, efficiency, and electric transportation.
How can we deploy those billions quickly, efficiently, and with the highest impact?
The money has been allocated, and expectations are high. Now comes the next phase: getting state agencies and community lenders comfortable with funding a wide range of projects. The local institutions at the front lines of the GGRF must gear up quickly to handle the money, assess projects, and finance them in a replicable way.
In this Frontier Forum, we are exploring the next critical phase for the GGRF. Where are the bottlenecks? How do we balance speed with high standards in reporting, communication, and documentation? And can America’s green bank live up to the expectations of both local communities and Wall Street?
Who should watch
- Project financiers
- Green banks
- Community lenders & local financing institutions
- Institutional banks
- Clean energy developers
- State, local, and Tribal government leaders
- Community advocates & nonprofits
- Environmental justice organizations
Event themes
- How the different programs under the GGRF work
- How borrowers and developers can participate in GGRF programs
- The role of green banks, local lenders, and Community Development Financial Institutions
- Possible bottlenecks for capital deployment
- Best practices for community engagement, particularly in low-income communities
- Creating project development, compliance, and reporting standards
- Case studies from around the country, including Texas’ green bank
- Best practices for managing deal flow
Who should watch
- Project financiers
- Green banks
- Community lenders & local financing institutions
- Institutional banks
- Clean energy developers
- State, local, and Tribal government leaders
- Community advocates & nonprofits
- Environmental justice organizations
America’s green banks and local lenders are preparing to unleash a wave of capital for clean energy projects nationwide. The $27 billion deployed under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) is expected to drive $150 billion to underserved communities and small businesses for solar, storage, efficiency, and electric transportation.
How can we deploy those billions quickly, efficiently, and with the highest impact?
The money has been allocated, and expectations are high. Now comes the next phase: getting state agencies and community lenders comfortable with funding a wide range of projects. The local institutions at the front lines of the GGRF must gear up quickly to handle the money, assess projects, and finance them in a replicable way.
In this Frontier Forum, we are exploring the next critical phase for the GGRF. Where are the bottlenecks? How do we balance speed with high standards in reporting, communication, and documentation? And can America’s green bank live up to the expectations of both local communities and Wall Street?
Who should watch
- Project financiers
- Green banks
- Community lenders & local financing institutions
- Institutional banks
- Clean energy developers
- State, local, and Tribal government leaders
- Community advocates & nonprofits
- Environmental justice organizations
Event themes
- How the different programs under the GGRF work
- How borrowers and developers can participate in GGRF programs
- The role of green banks, local lenders, and Community Development Financial Institutions
- Possible bottlenecks for capital deployment
- Best practices for community engagement, particularly in low-income communities
- Creating project development, compliance, and reporting standards
- Case studies from around the country, including Texas’ green bank
- Best practices for managing deal flow
Who should watch
- Project financiers
- Green banks
- Community lenders & local financing institutions
- Institutional banks
- Clean energy developers
- State, local, and Tribal government leaders
- Community advocates & nonprofits
- Environmental justice organizations
Event themes
- How the different programs under the GGRF work
- How borrowers and developers can participate in GGRF programs
- The role of green banks, local lenders, and Community Development Financial Institutions
- Possible bottlenecks for capital deployment
- Best practices for community engagement, particularly in low-income communities
- Creating project development, compliance, and reporting standards
- Case studies from around the country, including Texas’ green bank
- Best practices for managing deal flow
Stephen Lacey is the co-founder and executive editor of Latitude Media. He helps shape editorial coverage, live events, and creative partnerships. He’s a veteran journalist, editor, and producer who’s been running news teams and making audio programming about the clean energy transition for nearly two decades.
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Amanda has over a decade of experience across sustainable infrastructure investing, consulting in tech and finance sectors, and engineering. She leveraged experience from Generate Capital and McKinsey & Co. to co-found Banyan Infrastructure with CEO Will Greene in order to reduce the barriers to climate finance through the company’s purpose-built sustainable infrastructure finance software.
As Chief Operations Officer (COO) and Co-founder at Banyan Infrastructure, Amanda works across revenue teams to further standardize the complex deal structure and processes surrounding sustainable infrastructure project finance. Amanda holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor in Engineering from the University of British Columbia.
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Billy Briscoe serves as CEO of Clean Energy Fund of Texas. He has over 25 years of experience providing management and strategic advisory services to Fortune 1000 companies on business, legal, legislative and regulatory matters. Through his various roles, he has successfully managed large-scale, multi-state implementation efforts. Prior to joining TxCEF Billy was managing partner of The Briscoe Group, PLLC, a business transaction and litigation firm with offices in Houston and Dallas. He is also the managing partner of a private investment entity, specifically targeting distressed and alternative business platforms in need of short-term capital infusion.
Thursday, July 18
1:00PM - 2:00PM ET
Latitude Media Frontier Forums are live, interactive conversations and presentations that showcase frontier trends in clean energy and climate technology. These virtual events feature timely, in-depth conversations between leading voices in the industry and Latitude Media’s Stephen Lacey, as well as interactive Q&A sessions with attendees.
Thursday, July 18
1:00PM - 2:00PM ET
Latitude Media Frontier Forums are live, interactive conversations and presentations that showcase frontier trends in clean energy and climate technology. These virtual events feature timely, in-depth conversations between leading voices in the industry and Latitude Media’s Stephen Lacey, as well as interactive Q&A sessions with attendees.
Transition -AI:
New York
Transition-AI is the leading B2B event for energy practitioners and artificial intelligence experts. The conference series brings together business leaders across the energy sector who are building AI teams, integrating AI into new products, and using AI to streamline operations.
Building off its inaugural Transition-AI: Boston event, Latitude Media is joining New York Tech Week, and reconvening experts from the energy, climatetech, and artificial intelligence sectors to discuss AI’s role in the energy transition. The New York event will explore current use-cases and deployments within electric utilities, the role AI can play in streamlining project development, its impact on DER integration, and emerging applications that will continue to shape and optimize our electricity system.
Speakers
Schedule
How can we optimize grids using neural networks and machine learning? Dr. Kyri Baker, an expert who focuses on integrating large amounts of distributed generation and demand-side resources into power systems, will walk us through a few modeling scenarios. Then we will break out into small groups to brainstorm possible uses for different kinds of artificial intelligence.
A discussion of Avangrid's data science journey, with a presentation and demo of Avangrid's geospatial data science platform for reliability and resiliency modeling.
Daniel Hynum, GE Digital
Puneeth Kalavase, Fluence
As project owners looking to maximize the value of batteries and renewables in retail and wholesale power markets, we’ll explore the different AI platforms being developed to make trading more precise.
Carlos Nouel, National Grid
Sponsored session: We’re entering a new era for smart meters, powered by AI. If the benefits of an interconnected, customer-centric grid can be fully realized, utilities need to marry intelligent, AI-enabled software with utility-grade hardware to better support real-time energy analytics and provide the required protections to securely and reliably enable real-time grid control. In this session, we’ll hear from Sense and National Grid about the recent Revelo® meter rollout in New York, digging into the challenges they collectively faced in meeting the state’s reliability and security standards, and the opportunities their intelligent meters unlock for the region. They’ll also talk about the value of embedding AI and distributed computing software into meters to improve efficiency, enhance reliability and security, and support demand response.
Katie McClain, Energize Capital
Chris Streeter, Convergent Energy and Power
From rooftop solar to utility-scale renewables, companies are leveraging AI and digital tools to design, finance, and build projects in increasingly sophisticated ways.
A multimedia exploration of how AI is shifting the world of business – and how lessons in other industries can be applied to energy. The presentation will feature expert voices who will set the big-picture context for AI.
An in-depth discussion with Hanna Grene on how Microsoft is thinking about the intersection of AI and power markets.
An exclusive look at findings from the ongoing research program between Latitude Media and Indigo Advisory Group on the opportunities and markets for AI solutions in the power sector.
Sonam Kala, Urbint
Astrid Atkinson, Camus Energy
There are already dozens of use cases for AI on the grid. This discussion will map out many of the real-world applications for utility operations, maintenance, safety, resilience, and grid modernization.
Paul McDonald, Oracle Energy and Water
Apoorv Bhargava, WeaveGrid
Carlos Nouel, National Grid
From demand response to electric vehicle charging to virtual power plants, AI can be a powerful tool for empowering the customer to save money, monetize distributed energy resources, and contribute to the health of the grid. This panel will dig into the customer-side impacts of automation.
About
Who Should Attend?
Transition-AI: New York is designed for the community of leaders and practitioners responsible for innovation, strategy, technology, security, and product development within the energy and utilities sectors. Titles will include:
- C-Level Executives
- Heads of Innovation
- VC/Investors
- VPs of Strategy
- VPs of Product Planning
- Energy and Utility R&D Specialists
- IT decision makers
Transition-AI is the leading B2B event for energy practitioners and artificial intelligence experts. The conference series brings together business leaders across the energy sector who are building AI teams, integrating AI into new products, and using AI to streamline operations.
Building off its inaugural Transition-AI: Boston event, Latitude Media is joining New York Tech Week and reconvening experts from the energy, climatetech, and artificial intelligence sectors to discuss AI’s role in the energy transition. The New York event will explore current use-cases and deployments within electric utilities, the role AI can play in streamlining project development, its impact on DER integration, and emerging applications that will continue to shape and optimize our electricity system.
One of the central pillars of our transition to a net-zero economy is "electrifying everything," from energy generation, to transportation, heating and cooling, heavy industry, even the cooktops in our homes. As this electrification is underway, it's becoming increasingly clear an advanced digital layer to climatetech is essential to add the necessary intelligence to these systems and the electric grid. This intelligence will more and more be the province of AI and the rapid innovations underway in machine learning and distributed intelligence systems.
Conference themes
- Deep-dive conversations with leading AI thinkers
- Real-world uses of AI for renewables development, resource forecasting, price forecasting, financial transactions, and grid optimization
- Workshops and interactive technical discussions
- Explorations on how organizations can integrate AI and build AI teams
Our Speakers
- Raiford Smith: Chief Utility Innovation Officer, AES
- Carlos Nouel: VP of Transformation Programs, National Grid
- Hanna Grene: Global Operations and GTM Leader for Energy at Microsoft
- Mark Waclawiak: Senior Manager, Operational Performance, Avangrid
- Astrid Atkinson: CEO and Co-Founder, Camus Energy
- Daniel Hynum: Senior Product Manager, GE Digital
- Mike Phillips: CEO, Sense
- Puneeth Kalavase: VP of Data Science and Engineering, Fluence
- Paul MacDonald: Senior Director, Opower Product and Strategy, Oracle Energy & Water
- Chris Streeter: Chief Information and Risk Officer, Convergent Energy and Power
- Katie McClain: Partner and COO, Energize Capital
- Dr. Lauren Kuntz: CEO and Co-Founder, Gaiascope, Inc.
- Dr. Kyri Baker: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
- Sherry Huang: Group Product Marketing Manager, Aurora Solar
- Apoorv Bhargava: CEO and Co-Founder, WeaveGrid
- Jae Beom Bae: Director of Platform Operations, Leap
- David Groarke: Managing Director, Indigo Advisory Group
- Sonam Kala: Senior Director, Product - Risk Operations, Urbint
Who’s attended past events
- Top utilities
- Developers
- Consultants
- VCs/investors
- Technology providers
- Educational institutions
- Professional service providers
- Non-profits
Join us in shaping the AI-driven, net-zero energy future.
This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to celebrate the growing NY ecosystem. Learn more here: https://www.tech-week.com/
Space is limited for this conference, so register now.
For inquiries about media passes, government discounts, or sponsorship opportunities, contact us at events@transition-ai.com
Sense is making the energy transition accessible to everyone. Sense’s embedded intelligence redefines how utilities and consumers interact with homes and the grid. By partnering with meter manufacturers, Sense delivers software driven by high-resolution data that’s vital for utilities to better engage with customers, detect devices, balance load, forecast demand and identify anomalies. Our consumer-facing app makes homes smarter, empowering home dwellers to make better use of their energy, lower electricity bills, and reduce their carbon footprint. Learn more at https://sense.com.
Utilidata is bringing distributed artificial intelligence (AI) to the edge of the grid to accelerate decarbonization and better serve people. Utilidata's smart grid chip, powered by NVIDIA, is an AI-driven, software-defined platform aimed to transform the way utilities operate at the edge of the grid.
The Venue
Thursday, October 19
8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Convene events center, at 117 West 46th Street is located off of 46th Street, between 6th & 7th Avenue
Transition AI:
Boston
Schedule
ChatGPT is a transformative product for a wide variety of creative business use cases. In this hands-on session, we'll look at some practical ways of using ChatGPT for energy companies, and brainstorm new applications and possibilities with the group. Could large language models help your company? Let’s explore how. Session leader: Paul Baier
The surge of interest in artificial intelligence is spawning new companies and use cases across the energy sector, from grid management to resilience to cybersecurity. But it’s also raising questions for startups and large energy companies about the speed of adoption, ethics, equity, and control. In this fireside chat, we’ll hear from Pamela Isom, former director of the office of AI and technology at the Department of Energy, about the possible outcomes for autonomous technologies to shape decarbonization. Guest: Pamela Isom, CEO of IsAdvice & Consulting, and former director of the Artificial Intelligence and Technology office at DOE Moderator: Stephen Lacey
Technological progress is accelerating at the grid edge – can artificial intelligence supercharge it? Panelists from across the grid edge landscape will discuss the roles AI will play in optimizing distributed resources, tying together virtual power plants, and creating new capabilities that will result in operational efficiencies for utilities and DER providers.
How is the rise of AI influencing emerging companies? And how do we sort through the hype from real value creation? In this panel, we’ll hear from investors and startups about how they're approaching the market today, and where the openings for innovation and disruption exist. Will the market be dominated by a new crop of AI-first startups, or by climate-first startups that are figuring out how best to use AI?
There are numerous compelling applications for AI in the energy system, from resource optimization to resilience. Some of these applications are being deployed today, while others require continued research and development. In this opening session, we’ll hear from Climate Change AI’s Priya Donti on how investors, startups, corporates, and governments can evaluate the usefulness of AI. We will identify specific use cases, constraints, and tools for action in implementing various forms of automation.
Discover how AI is unlocking a series of transformative use cases across the electricity sector, from balancing grids and managing demand to optimizing operations. This session will explore the emerging solution landscape, market dynamics, and real-world applications that are driving the adoption of AI in the power sector.
AI is already having an impact on the operation of the grid, from forecasting to optimization to resilience. But there are more technological leaps to come. This panel features a deep discussion with utility executives and grid edge solutions providers on how artificial intelligence will speed up decarbonization, make the electricity system more resilient, transform utility business models, and shift the role of the customer. We will look at things happening today, and applications in the near future.
For years, Google has been using machine learning to optimize data center energy use, and to better match renewable energy supply with demand. As Google raises the stakes and sources 100% of its electricity from carbon-free resources on an hourly basis, it is building more sophisticated ML tools for the job. In this fireside chat, Stephen Lacey will chat with Savannah Goodman, data and software climate solutions lead at Google, about the digital layer that is making Google’s ambitions possible. Guest: Savannah Goodman, Data and Software Climate Solutions Lead at Google.