Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
ScottMadden, Inc., is a leading management consulting firm specializing in energy, corporate and shared services, clean tech and infrastructure, and federal government practice areas. For nearly 30 years, we have been a trusted advisor to leaders in the energy industry, consulting on business issues affecting long-term growth and profitability. Our firm is dedicated to helping clients understand, visualize, and realize their business objectives.
ScottMadden helps transmission clients attain their business goals and create value for their operations centers. We have undertaken numerous transmission-related projects for independent transmission companies, RTOs, independent system operators, and vertically integrated utility companies across the country and around the world. In all projects, in all industries, ScottMadden is committed to delivering an exceptional consulting experience that produces real results.
For more information, visit www.scottmadden.com/.
Serving clients in every major international financial center, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates is one of the leading
law firms in the world, with 23 offices and approximately 2,000 attorneys. Our diversified practice enables us to offer solutions to the most
challenging legal issues in virtually every area of corporate law, providing the specific legal advice clients need to compete most effectively in a
global business environment. We represent approximately 50 percent of the Fortune 250 industrial and service corporations, as well as financial
and governmental entities, high-technology startup companies, and cultural, educational and charitable institutions, advising on a wide variety of
high-profile transactions, regulatory matters, and litigation and controversy issues.
For more information, visit www.skadden.com/.
The Steel Structures division of Thomas & Betts designs, details, fabricates, and tests tubular steel poles and steel lattice towers for use in electric utility transmission applications. This unique ability to supply both lattice and tubular structures, as well as extensive project management experience, is a leading reason why Thomas & Betts is the premier transmission total structure supplier in North America.
From concept to completion Meyer Engineered Solutions deliver complete, cost-effective and proven results to any transmission project.
For more information, visit www.tnb.com.
As the country's only provider of spun concrete, tubular steel and hybrid poles for the power delivery industry, Valmont-Newmark offers utility engineers a seamless blend of custom solutions for diverse applications in their power delivery projects, maximizing their economic benefits.
From transmission and distribution poles to substation structures, our products can be ordered, fabricated and delivered to any site, in any combination of concrete, steel, or hybrid (concrete/steel). That means engineers have the flexibility - through one company - to customize segments of a line with poles fabricated out of materials suited for the environment. The final result is a line that is more cost effective, aesthetically pleasing and durable.
For more information, visit www.valmont-newmark.com.
Silver Sponsors
AIR2 Helicopter Airborne Line Teams deliver customer focused power line services to utilities and utility contractors. Our flight crews, line crews and management team members have over two decades of experience providing construction, maintenance and inspection services to North American utility companies and contractors. Services include: New line construction projects, Maintenance and repair of existing lines, Inspections, mapping and digital video recording of power lines and right-of-ways, Medium and Heavy Lift Operations and Emergency response.
For more information, visit www.air2.com/.
American Superconductor (NASDAQ:AMSC) offers proprietary technologies and solutions spanning the electric power infrastructure. The company is a leader in alternative energy and offers a host of Smart Grid technologies for power grid operators to enhance the reliability, efficiency and capacity of the grid, and seamlessly integrate renewable energy sources. The DOE has explicitly called out superconductors as one of the fundamental technologies needed for the Smart Grid. Cables powered by AMSC’s superconductor wire have very low power losses and very high power handling capacity. They can automatically suppress power surges and enable resilient power grids that can survive attacks and disasters. Environmentally responsible and no external electrical or magnetic fields simplifies their placement within limited right-of-ways and minimize the impact above ground.
For more information, visit www.amsc.com.
ICF International (NASDAQ:ICFI) partners with government and commercial clients to deliver professional services and technology solutions in the energy and climate change; environment and infrastructure; health, human services, and social programs; and homeland security and defense markets. ICF International helps public and private-sector clients develop comprehensive energy strategies and establish sustainable programs to deliver and maintain energy. Using an integrated approach to energy markets, our experts apply cutting-edge technical skills and proprietary modeling tools to provide clients with a complete picture of the energy landscape—from transmission to fuels to renewables.
For more information, visit icfi.com/energy.
Osmose helps utilities maintain the reliability of aging T&D assets with professional grade inspection, maintenance and rehabilitation services and products. We also deliver high quality network asset and connectivity data needed to power GIS, joint use, engineering, web-based mapping and Smart Grid. Call Osmose for storm response support.
For more information, visit www.osmoseutilities.com.
Sabre Tubular Structures, the steel pole division of Sabre Industries, Inc., is dedicated to the design and manufacture of tubular steel structures used in communications and power transmission, distribution and substation applications. Located in Alvarado, Texas, our facility manufactures utility structures in voltages up to 765kV and includes an environmentally-friendly galvanizer. In addition to manufacturing steel poles, Sabre’s shelter division, CellXion, provides a full line of concrete and structural steel shelters for substation applications.
For more information, visit www.sabretubularstructures.com/.