Sponsors

S&C Electric Company seamlessly integrates hardware, controls, and services for microgrids. With experience designing and building microgrid systems, we’ll 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.

Schneider Electric is leading 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.

Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading independent provider of comprehensive services, energy efficiency, infrastructure upgrades, asset sustainability and renewable energy solutions for businesses and organizations throughout North America and Europe. Ameresco’s sustainability services include upgrades to a facility’s energy infrastructure and the development, construction and operation of renewable energy plants. Ameresco has successfully completed energy saving, environmentally responsible projects with federal, state and local governments, healthcare and educational institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers. With its corporate headquarters in Framingham, MA, Ameresco has more than 1,000 employees providing local expertise in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

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.

PowerSecure is a leading provider of innovative energy solutions to electric utilities and their industrial, institutional, and commercial customers. PowerSecure provides energy solutions in the areas of distributed energy infrastructure, energy efficiency, and utility infrastructure.

Concord Engineering is a full-service engineering, energy procurement, construction management and commissioning firm. Concord employs over 100 engineers and technicians and construction managers. We have established ourselves as a “Virtual” Microgrid Service Provider providing energy expertise to anyone working toward a resilient and sustainable electric grid.

For 100 years, Cummins’ technology has powered success around the world. Our comprehensive portfolio delivers centralized as well as distributed energy solutions for your unique power need—commercial, industrial, marine, mining, recreational, emergency and residential. Products include diesel and gas engines ranging from 49 – 5,500 hp, diesel and gas powered generator sets ranging from 15 – 3750 kVA, alternators, generator-drive engines, battery storage systems and integrated power systems, combining generator sets and power control and transfer technologies. Services range from system design, project management, operations and maintenance contracts to the development of turnkey power plants and energy modeling. With 600 distributors and 7,200 dealer locations in 190 countries and territories, we offer global capabilities and local support wherever and whenever you need us. Cummins technologies and employees are Powering a World That’s Always On. www.cummins.com

Compass Energy Platform, LLC is a clean energy development and financing platform that helps government agencies, utilities and commercial & industrial concerns prepare for the future through district-scale energy projects that increase environmental and economic resilience. We de-risk, develop and finance every sort of distributed energy asset – microgrids, solar, wind, fuel cells, battery storage, CHP and smart city assets.

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.

Enchanted Rock provides affordable, long duration backup power to commercial, industrial, and institutional customers by delivering a proven, full-service solution with the cleanest available technology. Enchanted Rock handles the design, construction, commissioning, operations, and maintenance of natural gas powered generators so utilities and companies have access to reliable backup power without the expense and challenges that come with maintaining a backup generation system. To learn more about increasing electrical resiliency with Enchanted Rock solutions, visit www.EnchantedRock.com or connect with us on Twitter @ERock_LLC or LinkedIn.

RTDS Technologies Inc. is the pioneer of real time digital simulation and is the exclusive supplier of the RTDS® Simulator. Over the past 20 years, the company has established itself as the world leader in real time power system simulation with more than 300 installations in service.  Electric power utilities, equipment manufacturers, research institutes and universities around the world use the RTDS Simulator for power system studies and closed loop testing of protection and control equipment. More recently, the RTDS simulator has been applied to the development and testing of DG systems, MMC based schemes and wide area protection using PMU.

Worley is a leading provider of professional project and asset services in the energy, chemicals and resources sectors with a 130+ year continuous history and experience in the US Power sector that commenced in the 1880s. Alongside our global advisory and consulting arm, Advisian, we cover the full lifecycle, from creating new assets to sustaining and enhancing operating ones. With more than 60,000 people in over 50 countries, our geographic presence enables us to leverage global expertise to deliver innovative, local solutions that meet our customers’ needs. We are committed to delivering sustainable economic and social progress and creating opportunities for individuals, companies and communities to find and realize their own futures. Visit us at: www.worley.com and www.advisian.com.

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At Introspective Systems we believe performance-driven design leads to better outcomes for the electrical grid so we designed a world-class product line of adaptive controls for microgrids, batteries, and edge devices. Powered by our Transactive Energy technology, we enable better operational management of distributed energy resources. Our solutions optimize grid performance, leading to better efficiency, improved resiliency, and lower costs to consumers. With automated edge decision making, real-time pricing, and AI-driven algorithms, we are transforming the energy marketplace to power a people-centered grid for a cleaner, greener future. For more information, visit Introspective Systems.com or call us at 207-699-4051.

Scale Microgrid Solutions designs, builds, operates, and finances cutting-edge on-site power systems for commercial and industrial facilities throughout North America. The Company’s proprietary microgrid modules enable their customers to reap the benefits of the world’s most innovative distributed energy technologies while eliminating the anxieties associated with the traditional microgrid development process. SMS is building the backbone of the 21st century electric grid, at scale.

Typhoon HIL, INC. is a small business headquartered in Sommerville, MA with two wholly owned subsidiaries in Switzerland and Serbia.  The company incorporated in 2008 and currently has approximately 50 employees.

Typhoon HIL provides specialized computational hardware, software and engineering services necessary to produce high fidelity (sub microsecond) models and simulations of power electronics and controls.  Our Controller Hardware In the Loop (CHIL) technology enables a Model and Simulation Based Systems Engineering (MSBSE) approach; one receiving increasing emphasis as industries and businesses embrace digitization.

Based in Philadelphia, PECO is an electric and natural gas utility subsidiary of Exelon Corporation the nation’s largest competitive energy provider.  PECO is the largest electric and natural gas utility in Pennsylvania, serving approximately 1.6 million electric customers and more than 525,000 natural gas customers in southeastern Pennsylvania.  With a history of more than 130 years of service to the Greater Philadelphia region, PECO has a long-standing commitment to a culture of excellence and to advancing smart energy to provide safe, reliable, affordable, and clean energy and energy services for the customers and communities we serve.

At NRG, we are the power industry’s leading company and we’ve grown from a power generator into an energy provider that powers homes and businesses throughout America.

Our customer-focused mentality has led us to create technologies and tools that empower residents and organizations to think critically about their electricity, including where their power is coming from, what impact it has on the environment and how they can become more conscious energy users. We partner with businesses to customize innovative power and sustainability solutions that are informed by our years of experience as market leaders. And we work diligently to stay ahead of an ever-evolving energy climate with rising demands.

Bloom Energy’s mission is to make clean, reliable energy affordable for everyone in the world. The company’s product, the Bloom Energy Server, delivers highly reliable and resilient, always-on electric power that is clean, cost-effective, and ideal for microgrid applications. Bloom’s customers include many Fortune 100 companies and leaders in manufacturing, data centers, healthcare, retail, higher education, utilities, and other industries.

Burns is a nationally respected provider of specialized engineering services, bringing highly-technical, sought-after engineering expertise to transportation and critical infrastructure projects.

Our mission is to improve the quality of life by making the world more productive and sustainable. We are committed to enabling the next generation of smart manufacturing. With the right strategy, talented people, and our substantial financial strength, we are dedicated to deliver value to our customers.

When you invest in Rockwell Automation technology and solutions, you invest in the future of manufacturing.

Eaton is a power management company with 2017 sales of $20.4 billion. We provide energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton is dedicated to improving the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technologies and services. Eaton has approximately 98,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries. For more information, visit eaton.com.

DCO Energy, LLC is an independent energy development company specializing in the development, engineering, construction, start up, commissioning, operation, maintenance and management, as well as, ownership of Central Energy Centers (CEC), Renewable Energy projects and Combined Heat, Chilling and Power (CHCP) Production Facilities. DCO was formed in 2000 with a core team of energy experts.

DCO provides financing, engineering and design, construction management, startup and commissioning resources, and long-term operating and maintenance services for its own CEC, CHCP and Renewable Energy projects as well as third party clients.

DCO is a P4P partner and approved Energy Savings Company (ESCO) for Energy Savings Improvement Plan (ESIP)