Solarplaza Summit | Energy Storage USA

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Pooja Shah is a Senior Consultant on DNV’s Energy Storage and Emerging Technologies advisory in North America. Ms. Shah is a leading expert on energy storage development and clean energy project finance. At DNV, she leads the technical due diligence practice for Production Tax Credits (PTC) and Investment Tax Credit (ITC) transfer transactions across solar, wind, and storage technologies. She has served as a senior manager and energy storage expert across several utility-scale tax equity, debt, and tax credit transfer deals. Prior to joining DNV’s Independent Engineering team, Ms. Shah led Owner’s Engineering services for energy storage at DNV and was a lead engineer at Kiewit Energy before that, where she supported project development, engineering, and design on some of the largest solar and energy storage projects in North America. Pooja earned her Masters of Science in Systems Engineering with a focus on renewable energy systems from Syracuse University, New York.

Tiffany Wang is a senior analyst on the Clean Energy Technology team at S&P Global Commodity Insights. She provides strategic market research on both behind the meter and front of the meter energy storage with a focus on the North American market. Tiffany holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Cory leads the finance and accounting functions at Spearmint. Cory brings 15 years of infrastructure development experience working with world class investment funds at Blackrock, JP Morgan and Blackstone. His teams have raised $8B+ of project capital and successfully developed and constructed over 4 GW of power generation capacity across the globe. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Joe Nasser is the Senior Director of Origination at Titus Low Carbon Ventures, where he leads power origination efforts across utility-scale projects and cutting-edge solutions for AI data centers in ERCOT, MISO South, and SERC. With over a decade of experience in the Texas power market, he brings a deep, cross-functional background in trading, operations, planning, and development strategy.

Vanessa is a senior analyst with our Energy Transition Practice, covering the U.S. energy storage market with a particular focus on grid-scale battery storage. Before joining Wood Mackenzie in 2021, Vanessa was a battery storage analyst specializing in downstream revenue analytics and long-term price forecasting. Earlier in her career she was an analyst in North American natural gas infrastructure and power markets at Genscape, now a Wood Mackenzie company. Vanessa is also a committee member and mentor with She’s in Power; a Colorado C3E program designed to grow and inspire women to be clean energy leaders. Education: BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder

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