6 - 7 Apr 2027
San Diego
6 - 7 Apr 2027
San Diego
Monday 5 April 2027
Tuesday 6 April 2027
Session 1
Registration & welcome coffee
For the first time in decades, US electricity demand is skyrocketing. Driven by the explosive growth of AI, data centers, and the electrification of industry, asset managers are operating in a fundamentally altered macro environment where power is scarce and the grid is strained.
The traditional pay-as-produced energy contracts are quickly becoming a thing of the past. As corporate buyers push for clean power that matches their exact hourly consumption, asset managers must adapt to new structures that place the risk of intermittency squarely on their shoulders.
Serving them requires asset managers to evolve from passive operators into dynamic energy traders and structural problem-solvers.
Morning networking break
Session 2A
The handoff from project development to commercial operations is increasingly fraught with costly surprises, largely driven by the transition to cluster studies and new network cost allocation frameworks. This session equips operational asset managers with the tactical playbook needed to audit sudden upgrade fees, adapt to shifting queue dynamics, and safely guide late-stage projects into profitable operations.
With grid upgrades lagging years behind renewable deployment, local congestion is destroying project economics through severe basis risk. This presentation dives into the financial realities of regional bottlenecks.
Curtailment has moved beyond being a localized issue to becoming a structural reality of the grid. Asset managers must move from accepting curtailment as a loss to actively managing it via software.
Session 2B
The IRA's transferability provisions have created a massive, albeit complex, secondary market for tax credits. Asset managers must understand how to monetize these credits while managing the associated recapture risks.
As portfolios age and interest rates fluctuate, asset managers have unique opportunities to restructure debt, refinance, or bring in new tax equity partners to unlock trapped capital.
The financial upside of the IRA comes with a heavy operational burden. Failing to maintain prevailing wage and apprenticeship (PWA) requirements during O&M can result in severe financial penalties and tax credit recapture.
Networking lunch break
Session 3A
Workshop
A hands-on deep dive into identifying the technical drivers eroding project IRRs. This workshop is your guide to evaluating raw SCADA data and drone thermography to isolate hardware issues and system bottlenecks. Understand critical drivers such as DC/AC clipping, thermal derating, and PID/LID degradation, and use site-specific soiling and snow-loss modeling to optimize wash schedules.
Despite multiple advances in O&M technology and analytics, underperformance remains a persistent challenge for solar assets. This panel moves from diagnosis to resolution, bringing together O&M leaders to discuss practical field strategies and hardware retrofits that close the gap between projected P50 models and actual operational yield.
Session 3B
Workshop
With extreme weather events testing the limits of solar infrastructure, passive O&M strategies are no longer sufficient. In this hands-on workshop, attendees work through real-world weather-crisis scenarios, evaluating the tactical and financial decisions required to protect assets during high-risk events such as Texas hailstorms and California wildfires.
The rising frequency of severe weather events has caused a hard insurance market, with premiums soaring and deductibles for natural catastrophes (NatCat) reaching project-threatening levels.
Afternoon networking break
Session 4
Asset management is messy. In this highly popular, off-the-record format, senior leaders share their most expensive mistakes, operational disasters, and the hard-won lessons that followed.
Networking drinks
Wednesday 7 April 2027
Session 5
Batteries shouldn’t be simplified to "solar that dispatches later” but should be recognized as complex chemical assets with strict operational limits that dictate their financial lifespan.
Utility-scale batteries must stack revenues to pencil out. This requires sophisticated software to decide whether to bid into day-ahead markets, real-time energy, or frequency regulation.
Unplanned downtime is the enemy of IRR. By utilizing machine learning models trained on vast telemetry datasets, operators can replace components just before they fail.
Morning networking break
Session 6A
The commercial team wants to cycle the battery twice a day to capture price spikes; the technical team wants to preserve battery health. Managing hybrid assets requires harmonizing these seemingly conflicting incentives.
Finding the best AI software and buying advanced analytics is only half the battle; successfully embedding software into legacy workflows while protecting connected infrastructure from cyber threats is the real challenge. This panel explores how asset managers can bridge the IT/OT gap, clean up dirty data stacks, and secure connected inverter and storage networks against escalating cyber risks.
Session 6B
The US is facing a critical shortage of high-voltage technicians and BESS-certified specialists. Asset owners must rethink how they recruit and retain operational talent.
As sophisticated asset owners push to control more of their operational data and integrate O&M into their bespoke systems, the traditional vendor relationship is rapidly transforming. This panel explores the new commercial reality of solar and BESS O&M, addressing why "owning the monitoring stack" doesn't necessarily mean owning the response time.
Networking lunch break
Session 7A
Workshop
As early-generation US solar assets approach years 10-15, asset managers must decide whether to continue repairing degrading components or to initiate a full repowering.
As North America’s utility-scale and commercial solar fleet matures into years 7 through 15, asset managers face a quiet reckoning: non-linear component degradation, expiring warranties, and an ever-increasing burden of corrective maintenance. This panel confronts the "midlife crisis" of solar head-on, moving beyond simple truck rolls to explore how leading operators reframe aging infrastructure through proactive checks, performance guarantees, and smarter field execution.
Session 7B
Workshop
Decommissioning bonds are often underestimated during project development. This workshop provides a clear-eyed look at the actual costs and logistics of taking a solar plant offline.
The tidal wave of end-of-life solar panels is here. However, the logistics of reverse supply chains and the economics of recycling remain incredibly challenging in the US.
Afternoon networking break
Session 8
To close the summit on a visionary, high-energy note, this session puts senior leaders in the hot seat. Rather than looking back, panelists are forced to navigate hypothetical yet highly probable market scenarios over the coming years.
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