Sponsors

S&C Electric Company seamlessly integrates hardware, controls, and services for microgrids. With experience designing and building microgrid systems, S&C can help you develop an approach that will ensure reliability and meet your objectives. Our High-Speed Fault-Clearing System offers an essentially no-outage system and provides ultra-high reliability for microgrids. For quasi-independent microgrids that rely on centralized generation as their primary source, but use a distributed energy resource to provide back-up power, S&C can engineer dynamic islanding systems that can intelligently add and shave load from the distributed resource.

ETAP is the global market and technology leader in modeling, design, analysis, optimization, monitoring, control, and automation software for electrical power systems.

ETAP Microgrid Solution offers an integrated model-driven, cross-platform microgrid controller to facilitate optimal and reliable control of Microgrids. The solution enables you to seamlessly operate and transition between grid connected and islanded modes.

2G Energy Inc., a subsidiary of 2G Energy AG in Germany, is a renowned CHP cogeneration specialist offering best-in-class cogeneration systems for natural gas, biogas, landfill gas, syngas, and hydrogen in the 50 to 2,500 kW power range. 2G Energy is both an engine manufacturer and a complete CHP system packager of both their own engines as well as a select few engine partners. 2G Energy offers the most efficient and reliable energy solutions because of our highly engineered modular design and focus on making the highest quality product with outstanding service. With over 7,500 2G systems installed worldwide, our customers confirm the quality and performance of 2G products and are the backbone of our international success.

Since 1976, Lima Company has been dedicated to serving clients and meeting expectations. Their nearly 100 employees work as a team across professional trade disciplines that include: Plumbing, HVAC/R, Building Automation and Energy Services. This blend of trade services allows for full understanding of building mechanical systems and how they interact with each other. This leads to highly efficient and well performing systems which in turn extend the useful life of all equipment involved.  https://www.limacompany.net/

Concord Engineering is a full-service engineering, energy consulting, construction management and commissioning firm. Concord employs over 100 engineers and designers. We have established ourselves as leaders in many regional and international markets, and continue to combine forward thinking with result-oriented goals as we move into an era that requires energy efficiency, sustainability and cost savings.

Siemens Digital Grid partners with leading utilities and energy providers worldwide to provide expertise and innovative technologies to help in their transformation journeys. Globally, Digital Grid has worked with more than 2,500 leading utilities and energy providers to deliver proven solutions and services that improve operational efficiencies, enhance reliability and resiliency, and empower consumers to better manage their energy use.

The Langley Holdings’ Power Solutions Division is a hybrid-renewable microgrid collaboration between three of the world’s most respected engineering manufacturers to meet immediate and future microgrid requirements and help map that path towards meeting the world’s carbon targets.

Bergen Engines from Norway, Marelli Motori from Italy and Piller Power Systems from Germany create a partnership able to support many aspects of microgrid implementation and ongoing management, including the immediate requirements for balancing power and stabilization.

H₂-ready combustion engines from Bergen Engines, incorporating Marelli Motori alternators, can start up fast and maintain high efficiency levels at part-load operation, always keeping emissions and fuel consumption low. Piller’s stabilisation and storage systems make it possible to optimise the various power sources in a microgrid, thereby reducing investment and operational costs.

The combined offering will ensure flexible, reliable and cost-effective power supply at all times.

PowerSecure is the nation’s leading distributed energy innovation company. Our team of experts has developed, installed, managed and serviced 2+ GW of microgrid capacity over the past 20 years, as well as implemented over $800 million of energy efficiency upgrades. We take a full-facility, lifecycle approach through production and management, delivering clean and resilient energy to our customers at the best possible value. By combining our product innovation capabilities with our 360 integrated processes, we offer you the best custom solution for your needs, backed by an unmatched level of expertise, quality and service.

Cummins Power Generation is as a global leader of integrated power system solutions and continuously invests in future technologies to meet emission requirements and support steps towards decarbonization around the world.  Our microgrid technologies include diesel and natural gas generator sets, hydrogen technologies, battery storage, system-level controls, and remote monitoring capabilities, incorporating a variety of energy sources from traditional to renewable power sources to deliver sophisticated, efficient, and resilient power.

Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading cleantech integrator and renewable energy asset developer, owner and operator. Our comprehensive portfolio includes energy efficiency, infrastructure upgrades, asset sustainability and renewable energy solutions delivered to clients throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

Technical independence coupled with our advanced technology portfolio allows us to integrate best-in-class solutions for the unique needs of each customer, paired with practical financial solutions. Whether focused on securing infrastructure upgrades, meeting sustainability goals, or creating resiliency, our customers benefit from a single provider of comprehensive clean technology solutions. For more information, visit www.ameresco.com.”

The Propane Education & Research Council is a nonprofit that provides leading propane safety and training programs and invests in research and development of new propane-powered technologies. PERC is operated and funded by the propane industry. PERC programs benefit a variety of markets including transportation, agriculture, commercial landscaping, residential, and commercial building.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) works to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. We provide products, solutions, and services for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, security, communications, and metering of electric power systems worldwide.

Veolia is a global and North American leader in power and thermal energy solutions. With a multi-faceted team of energy, finance, operations, and technology experts, Veolia is capable of developing, operating and optimizing distributed energy assets for both new and existing facilities through multiple contracting and delivery models.

• Ability to develop project economics and technical feasibility
• A track record of working collaboratively with local utilities
• Experience navigating utility interconnection and permitting
• Blend skills in power, thermal, markets, engineering and construction
• Integrated, turnkey project delivery capabilities
• Practical operator expertise

Veolia is uniquely positioned to service industry, government and commercial entities in improving performance, managing water, waste and energy. Learn more.

ComAp designs and manufactures control products for hybrid microgrids, power generation and engine equipment, developing products that make power generation more efficient, with optimized fuel consumption, reduced emissions, and increasingly hybridized with renewable energy and energy storage to address the environmental protection needs of today and tomorrow.

AZZO is a global engineering and technology company that provides IoT-based control & monitoring systems, fleet management and systems integration for the renewable energy and microgrid markets.  We design, supply, deploy and support these solutions – bringing technology together with our core competencies in Energy Management, Electrical Engineering, Power Automation and Digital Systems.

Our customers are adding microgrids into their facilities as part of their sustainability and resiliency strategies.  AZZO’s EnergyX IoT, enables customers to integrate new DERs/microgrids and provide enterprise-wide energy management solutions.  With remote service capabilities, AZZO can pre-commission systems for plug-n-play cloud connectivity with monitoring and control scenarios.

Rolls-Royce provides world-class power solutions and full life-cycle support under our product and solution brand mtu. By utilizing the potential of digitalization and electrification, we strive to develop climate-neutral power delivery and power generation solutions that are even cleaner and smarter, thus providing answers to the challenges posed by climate change and by society’s rapidly growing demands for energy and mobility.

mtu microgrid solutions range from standalone battery storage to fully integrated hybrid systems​. As a one-stop-shop solution provider, we offer microgrid solutions tailored to customer needs – energy generation, renewable integration, energy storage and smart control to optimize operation of microgrids.

POWER Engineers, Inc. is a global consulting engineering firm specializing in integrated solutions for the energy, facilities, environmental, and federal markets. As innovators, we encourage new ideas and fresh approaches. As trusted responsive advisors, we help clients realize unique microgrid solutions. These traits, combined with deep technical skill integrating renewable and other energy sources into electrical systems, allow us to deliver solutions that meet our clients’ requirements for secure, resilient power. Our project approach is marked by our commitment to being flexible, reliable, and knowledgeable so that we are able to accommodate each client’s needs, delivering winning projects.

Schneider Electric is a leader the Digital Transformation of Energy Management and Automation in Homes, Buildings, Data Centers, Infrastructure, and Industries. With global presence in over 100 countries, Schneider is the undisputable leader in Power Management – Medium Voltage, Low Voltage and Secure Power, and in Automation Systems. We provide integrated efficiency solutions, combining energy, automation, and software. In our global Ecosystem, we collaborate with the largest Partner, Integrator, and Developer Community on our Open Platform to deliver real-time control and operational efficiency. We believe that great people and partners make Schneider a great company and that our commitment to Innovation, Diversity, and Sustainability ensures that Life Is On everywhere, for everyone, and at every moment.

Heila Technologies is a Kohler Company dedicated to simplifying the integration and operation of distributed energy resources (DERs). Combining decades of deep theoretical knowledge and practical industry experience, Heila’s mission is to transform the energy industry from the ground up using DERs as the pillars of a new sustainable, reliable, and equitable grid. Its decentralized optimization system provides unparalleled automation and modularity, dramatically reducing system complexity and cost. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts and Oakland, California. To learn more, visit www.heilatech.com.

Clarke Energy, a KOHLER Company, is an international specialist in distributed power solutions. We are able to supply, configure, install and service hybrid power plants consisting of flexible gas engines, energy storage, solar, wind power. We are also able to provide thermal solutions including combined heat and power plants and heat pumps. Clarke Energy is also the largest global distributor for INNIO’s Jenbacher gas engines.

Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) is a leading enterprise energy software provider. Its DERMS solutions are used by every distribution utility in the UK and several utilities and energy companies in the US.  Internationally, SGS products manage over 521 MW of clean energy assets. SGS’ Strata Resilience product is a software-based microgrid control solution that delivers grid connected, island and black-start microgrid functions.  Integrating microgrids to grids and markets, it optimizes revenues while delivering supply security.  Strata Resilience delivers all the capabilities required for the management of clean energy assets in microgrids and is already deployed and creating value for customers in North America and the UK.

Eaton’s electrical business is a global leader with deep regional application expertise in power distribution and circuit protection; power quality, backup power and energy storage; control and automation; life safety and security; structural solutions; and harsh and hazardous environment solutions. Through end-to-end services, channel and an integrated digital platform & insights Eaton is powering what matters across industries and around the world, helping customers solve their most critical electrical power management challenges

PXiSE (pronounced ‘pice’), a member of the Yokogawa Group, develops next-generation grid control technology that empowers utilities, developers, and asset owners to manage their energy resources and energy delivery more reliably and efficiently with renewable power plant controls, distributed energy resource management systems, and microgrids. PXiSE’s grid controls platform unlocks the potential of distributed generation to improve grid reliability and increase renewable energy output, while helping to achieve the harmony of resilience, safety, efficiency and cost-effectiveness. For more information, visit www.pxise.com.

GENTEC is the manufacturer of the hi-end CHP units, micro CHP units, and trigeneration units for natural gas, biogas, and other special fuels. In the development and production, GENTEC emphasizes reliability, flexibility, and functional design. GENTEC puts the utmost importance on the innovation and continuous improvement of its products and services to neglect the environmental impact and increase economical benefits. GENTEC is developing the hydrogen-based CHP units and is involved in the development of the CHP unit control system which allows using of artificial intelligence and machine learning and helps to aggregate multiple power sources into virtual power plants.

Northeast-Western Energy Systems (“NES-WES”), a division of Penn Power Group, LLC, provides onsite power systems with over 25 years of experience developing, installing, and maintaining best-in-class combined heat & power (CHP) and distributed generation (DG) solutions. As channel partner for INNIO Jenbacher gas engine generator sets NES-WES has over 200 gas engine solutions from 300kW to 10MW installed across North America. Our customers include commercial, industrial, greenhouse, and government facilities who benefit from reliable solutions which provide energy cost savings, increased energy resilience, and improved environmental sustainability.

NES-WES provides qualified sales and business development, application engineers, integration engineering, field project management, and highly trained commissioning engineers and field service technicians. While having a dedicated focus on “gaseous fueled” power generation NES-WES capabilities extend far beyond simply providing gas engine-generator sets. We provide end users with fully integrated CHP and DG solutions including engine and exhaust heat recovery, fuel gas compressors, emissions, controls, switchgear, micro-grid systems, DC battery storage, mechanical and absorption chillers, bio-gas cleaning systems, cooling towers and components, and any other equipment, components and services required for fully operable and reliable solutions.

UL’s HOMER Microgrid and Hybrid Power International and Microgrid Knowledge collaborate to strengthen and fuel education on microgrids. Organizers of UL’s HOMER Microgrid and Hybrid Power International conference and Microgrid Knowledge formed a collaboration to bring together the thought leadership of both conferences together in one event.

Mesa Solutions

We are a leading power solutions company specializing in the manufacturing, sales, leasing, and operations of natural gas and liquid propane-powered mobile and stationary generators sets and microgrids.

Our best-in-class power solutions enable customers to reduce their energy costs and capital expenditures as well as increase reliability and operational up-time, all while lowering emissions and decreasing their overall carbon footprint.

We secured our foothold in the energy industry at the beginning of our operations, utilizing natural gas-powered generators to capture stranded gas produced in oil and gas operations. We have since advanced outside of the energy industry, currently operating across the globe.

Today, our manufacturing capabilities have expanded, now providing sustainable power generation for commercial and industrial (C&I) prime power, microgrids, standby power, and a variety of other global applications.

Our top priorities are sustainability, our people, and our customers. We want to help you find the best solution for your power needs.

Sapling Financial Consultants is a Toronto-based consultancy specializing in financial modelling and data analytics services for firms across North America. We help electricity developers to land new clients, develop profitable projects, and raise capital from like-minded investors. Our value-driving Financial Modelling services help developers to price projects sustainably, demonstrate customer savings, and raise capital. While our engagements span all industries and sizes, our focus is consistent: making financial decisions based on quantitative analysis.

ClearGen, LLC is an investment vehicle formed in 2020 by Blackstone to provide enabling capital to the energy transition.  Our business works in support of development partners pursuing new solutions in distributed generation, microgrids, energy efficiency, and EV charging to source low-cost funding from Blackstone Credit and the capital markets to commercial and industrial end users.  We are building a portfolio of investments in companies and projects, including equity in long dated Energy as-a-Service projects and project loan portfolios.

At Enchanted Rock, our mission is making sure the power is on for our customers. Our Managed Power Resiliency solution has reinvented how organizations ensure power resiliency with fully managed, clean microgrids. We provide patented advanced technology, support services, and flexible pricing options designed for fast, simple, and worry-free protection from grid outages lasting from minutes to weeks so our customers can focus on their core business. High availability solutions, backed by skilled personnel, result in low risk, predictable resiliency. To learn more about the Enchanted Rock Managed Power Resiliency solution, visit www.EnchantedRock.com

Driven by its vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid of the future, Mainspring is delivering a new category of power generation — the linear generator — that delivers onsite, dispatchable, fuel-flexible power at low cost. The company’s products deliver value to customers across a wide range of commercial and industrial, grid infrastructure, and microgrid installations. Based in Menlo Park, Calif., Mainspring is backed by top-tier venture, strategic, and financial investors. www.mainspringenergy.com.

Generac Industrial is a leading energy technology company that provides advanced power grid software solutions, backup and prime power systems for home and industrial applications, solar + battery storage solutions, virtual power plant platforms and engine- and battery-powered tools and equipment. As one of North America’s largest providers of power generation products and solutions with an intense focus on innovation that creates a disruptive force in the marketplace – Generac is committed to leading the evolution to more resilient, efficient, and sustainable energy solutions.

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. The company generated sales of 78.8 billion € and employs nearly 401,300 associates (2021). Bosch defines sustainability as securing the company’s long-term success while protecting the natural environment for future generations with the aid of new technology, such as the SOFC. Stationary solid-oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) systems are decentralized power stations who generate electricity and heat from biogas, natural gas, or hydrogen. With an overall efficiency over 85%, the SOFC is the front-runner in energy efficiency.

Bosch plans to start full-scale production for the SOFC systems in 2024.

The Microgrid Resources Coalition (MRC) is a consortium of leading microgrid owners, operators, developers, suppliers, and investors. Since 2013, MRC has advanced microgrids, through advocacy and education, to provide a level playing field for their deployment and operation.

Founded in 2019, FranklinWH is a research-driven company focus on next-generation residential energy storage solution with energy management. The founding team has an average of 20+ years of professional background in fortune 100 companies from related industries and has rich experience in deploying large-scale projects for global fortune 500 customers. With the increasing reliance on consumer electronics and smart devices, as well as the increase in energy costs and frequency natural disasters, we can no longer just rely on the traditional power grid. Therefore, FranklinWH is providing you with touch-free intelligent whole home power backup and loads control solutions, presenting a fully autonomous experience of security & reliability.