Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Ballard Spahr LLP’s Energy and Project Finance Group assists clients in all aspects of renewable energy project development and finance. We are a national practice with 13 offices nationwide. Our broad experience with the financial markets combined with industry-specific knowledge of business, technology, and regulatory issues allows us to structure creditworthy projects that meet business and tax objectives.
This recent practice focus builds on and complements our historic, and ongoing, traditional energy development work in gas, coal (including coal gasification), waste coal, nuclear, and waste-to-energy power plants, as well as refineries, off-shore drilling rigs, and transmission facilities.
We have substantial experience over 20 years in the non-recourse financing of independent power projects and, during the past few years, of renewable energy projects that depend on federal and state tax subsidies and other forms of governmental support. Key members of our energy team are well known for structuring innovative project deals.
For more information, visit www.ballardspahr.com/.
Silver Sponsors
At Baker & McKenzie, we have worked on landmark renewable energy transactions throughout the US and in Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe. We have represented developers, lenders and investors in all aspects of the renewable energy industry including solar, windpower, biofuels, carbon and climate change, geothermal, and cleantech transactions. Our attorneys can advise in all phases of project development, including corporate and tax structuring, equity and debt financings, joint ventures, regulatory matters, and environmental issues.
For more information, visit www.bakernet.com/energy.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is uniquely positioned to help companies and their financial partners realize the vast promise of the energy and
clean technology field. The firm’s traditional leadership in the technology sector makes us exceptionally well suited to serve as a strategic advisor
to visionary companies at all stages of development. To take full advantage of this unparalleled platform, we have assembled a highly specialized
team of energy and clean technology attorneys, giving us top-tier expertise in everything from patents to project finance, government affairs to
tax structures. Also setting the firm apart are our longstanding relationships with venture capitalists, private equity firms, and major financial
institutions across the U.S. and abroad, which allow us to serve as a conduit to—and advisor regarding—-a wide variety of funding sources. When
it comes to structuring and closing groundbreaking transactions in the emerging energy economy, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has become
the firm of choice for leading companies, investors, and lenders.
For more information, visit www.wsgr.com.
Supporting Sponsors
US Renewables Group (“USRG”) was founded in 2003 with the goal of earning superior returns for its investors by focusing on investments in the following areas: (1) renewable electricity generation; (2) biofuels production; and, (3) supply chain service companies. USRG has since become one of the largest renewable energy-focused private equity fund managers in the United States, managing three private equity funds, with over $750 million in assets under management. USRG is based in Santa Monica, California and has an office in White Plains, New York.
For more information, visit www.usregroup.com.
Novo Energy provides state-of-the-art technology for solid fuel based renewable energy projects throughout the world. The core technology is the patented Aireal® Combustion System (“ACS”), which is a revolutionary combustion technology that is lower in cost to install and maintain than conventional technologies, while improving plant efficiency ratings both operationally and environmentally. The balance of the technology package consists of an energy recovery system and an exclusive license with Solios Industries for a proprietary European air pollution control technology which allows Novo to provide a total technology package to its clients who include project developers, constructors, institutions and governmental entities.
For more information, visit www.novo-energy.com.
The PWR process is a breakthrough application of proven technologies utilizing a high-temperature plasma arc to produce clean renewable energy on a 24-7 basis. This process converts any carbon-containing waste into a synthesis gas which can be converted to electricity or liquid fuels, rock wool insulation, and scrap steel ingots. Because there is no ash to dispose of, the PWR Process can be considered total recycling. There is nothing left to landfill. No co-reactants are required. This process has the lowest capital cost, the lowest operating cost, the lowest emissions, and the highest efficiency of any plasma conversion technology.
For more information, visit www.plasma-wr.com.
TMD Technologies Group LLC (TMD) was initiated with a basic mission “to provide technology driven, cost-effective biological solutions to environmental challenges facing our global community”. The blending of scientists, researchers, business professionals and field technicians creates a winning team capable of handling many environmental issues from alleviating very small-scale residential wastewater issues to remediating large-scale hazardous waste sites. In an effort to solve the myriad of environmental issues facing the world, TMD Technologies Group, LLC was formed as a parent company to house the patented technology in our BioResources Group and to discover new advances through our in-house R&D Group. It is the blending of our subsidiary companies that allows TMD to follow our mission and provide solutions to all environmental challenges. Our mission further engages us to expand our boundaries and assist the world.
The importance of protecting the environment has traditionally been a social and political cause, but as the face of the business economy has changed, so has the priority for protecting the environment. The term “sustainability” is commonplace in today’s business world and is the means in which business decisions are tracked to ensure that environmental affects are minimized both now and in the future. The idea of sustainability has pushed businesses, governments and communities to provide solutions to everyday operations and ensure that the environment is protected at all costs. TMD is enthusiastic about the potential opportunity for working with all sectors to provide biological solutions to environmental challenges facing them today and in the future. Sustainability is relatively new in today’s marketplace, but has always been the mission of TMD.
For more information, visit www.tmd-technologies.com.