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5-7 March 2019Miami, USA

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Agenda at a glanceMarch 4th March 5th March 6th March 7thNETWORKING & SOCIAL• 7:30 PM VIP drinks (speakers, sponsors and gold ticket holders)

BREAKFAST BRIEFING• State of the market for energy storage

MORNING PLENARY SESSIONS• Policy • Grid Updates: North America • Grid Updates: Central and Southern America

PROJECT UPDATES• Pipeline and installed capacity case studies • Behind the meter • In front of the meter

TECHNOLOGY SHOWDOWN• Flow batteries • Pumped Hydro • Superconductors • Thermal • V2G

CAPITAL RAISING UPDATE• Debt • Equity • Utility investment

NETWORKING & SOCIAL• MEET: 1-2-1 meetings • NETWORK: 2-hours of networking and refreshment breaks on day one alone • RAISE MONEY AND FIND PARTNERS: Our shark tank session and dedicated capital raising sessions will connect you with venture capital, seed investors, debt, equity, tax equity and investment, you will also be able to meet development banks, credit enhancement agencies, insurers and bond providers • RELAX OVER A DRINK: our evening drinks reception is an informal chance to strengthen relationships • GALA DINNER

BREAKFAST BRIEFING• Chemistries

OFFTAKER SEMINARS• Utilities • Commercial and industrial • Municipal buyers

RESILIENCE SEMINAR• Rapid power and emergency response • Microgrid case studies

STORAGE PROJECT ANALYSIS: CENTRAL & LATAN AMERICA BREAKDOWN • Finance • Technology • Utility scale • Co-Location

IOT• Blockchain • Data • Smart Grids

BTM & IFTM • Residential vs C&I • Decentralised vs centralised • Peak Shaving

ELECTRIC VEHICLES• V2G • Self-Charging batteries

BREAKFAST BRIEFING• Country focus: Puerto Rico

DESIGNING PROJECTS WITH WEATHER CONDITIONS IN MIND• Microgrid Analysis

LEVELISED COST OF ENERGY• Grid Parity • Case Study: Hawaii

WHERE IS THE CAPITAL COMING FROM?• Debt & cost of Finance • Crowdfunding platforms

SUPPLY CHAIN • Equipment • Cost Breakdown

DEVELOPER CASE STUDIES• How to Secure: - Investment - Land & Permits - Off-takers - Relationships


Day One: Tuesday 5th March 2019

ANALYST BREAKFAST BRIEFING: GEOGRAPHY, GRIDS AND USEAGE07:30 RECEIVE HEADLINE STATS ON HOW THE MARKET FOR STORAGE IS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE AMERICAS This essential briefing will bring you up to date with: • The latest news on auctions, project announcements, and other development news • What can we expect for 2019? • Where storage is currently being installed • What it’s being used for: behind the meter and in front of the meter

08:30 Registration for the main conference opens

09:00 POLICY BRIEFING: CREATING AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR ENERGY STORAGE • Storage as a strategic asset in improving resilience • Rate structures and their design to encourage behind the meter storage • Establishing a framework for growth and investment • Hear from governments, agencies, and policy makers on new incentives and policies • Review of RFPs, PPAs, grants, and incentives • Comparing agreements and contracts - what’s currently working to drive the industry forward? • Who owns, or should own, assets? • Bilateral agreements with off-takers

10:30 STATE OF THE GRID: NORTH AMERICA • Age of infrastructure • Areas of investment • Key targets for storage and renewable • Complimentary modernization plans

11:00 Networking refreshment break

11:30 STATE OF THE GRID FROM SOUTHERN COUNTRIES • Age of infrastructure • Areas of investment • Key targets for storage and renewables • Complimentary modernization plans • Ownership of assets

12:00 TRANSMISSION PANEL • Where to place storage systems: location and size • Storage really location reliable • Location specific solution - what do you need? • Where is the problem? Energy need? • Transmission • Overload stations

12:30 ENERGY STORAGE CAPACITY FORECAST • Forecasted storage capacity by region

1:00 Networking lunch break


STREAM ONE2:00 STORAGE IN PERSPECTIVE: REVIEW OF 2018 DEALS AND PIPELINE • RFPs, PPAs, Grants, and Incentives • Comparing agreements and contracts • Bilateral agreements with off-takers • Which one makes the most sense and why? • How to compare? • Are you getting the best deal?

3:00 One to one networking and refreshment break

4:00 PROJECT CASE STUDIES • Utility scale • Vehicle to grid • Commercial and industrial • Rapid power deployment • Micro grids

5:00 STORAGE MARKETS IN NORTH AMERICA • What’s inside plans from regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs)? • Case study: PJM’s frequency regulation market • Case study: CAISO

6:00 Networking drinks reception

STREAM TWO2:00 SHARK TANK: TECHNOLOGY SHOWDOWN • Flow batteries • Pumped Hydro • Superconductors • Thermal • V2G o Comparing battery technology by client use o Scale o Use o Ruggedness o Customer: (utility, commercial, residential) Pecha Kucha presentations. This fast presentation style was devised in Tokyo in 2003 and involves a simple presentation format where speakers show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and speakers talk along with the images. Think elevator pitch combined with karaoke.

3:00 One to one networking and refreshment break

4:00 CORPORATE ENERGY BUYERS MYTHBUSTERS State of the Art? The concerns with Lithium Ion Technology • Hazardous materials • Explosive? • Results vs. promises • Technology is only just leaving the demo/testing phase • Technology is only beginning to be commercialized • First projects are only just coming online • Not a lot of actual experience and testing, only hypothesis. • Life span & disposal

5:00 INTEGRATING RENEWABLES AND STORAGE • Compatibility • Standardization • Many technologies? • Are all renewable or other generation compatible? All same costs? Which ones have higher savings?

6:00 Networking drinks reception


Day Two: Wednesday 6th March 2019

07:30-08:30 BREAKFAST BRIEFING: FINANCING STORAGE IN CENTRAL AND LATIN AMERICA

STREAM ONEFINANCING STORAGE PROJECTS

09:00 THE FINANCIAL CONCERNS OF NEW MARKETS: LATAM • How to bring financing? • Solar is more mature, storage is not quite there (except for Europe and USA) - how do you finance a fledgling industry? • How to overcome the financing hurdle to and expand • How to have expertise in control systems in LATAM • The challenge of rural project financing • Innovative payment schemes • Dependence on government payout should be avoided • Lack of infrastructure: getting the technology there (transport) • O&M: the challenge of maintenance in rural space

10:00 HOW CAN STORAGE PROJECTS BE FINANCED? IN DEPTH MAP OF EACH PROJECT PHASE • A developers point of view • The risks a bank will and will not make • Project development phases - when to bring in additional financing • Case study: Cerro Dominador • Trust the big guys, European expertise • Technology no track record - how much risk can a bank take? • Where in a project stage are you most comfortable investing? • What do you need in a PPA contract to invest? %gains? • Are falling energy costs good or bad for investors? Banks?


STREAM TWOGEOGRAPHIC UPDATES

09:00 STORAGE MARKETS IN CENTRAL AMERICA A discussion of opportunities in the Caribbean • Jamaica • Dominican Republic • Bahamas

10:00 STORAGE MARKETS IN LATIN AMERICA • Brazil: new government incentives in Brazil • Chile: will political stability compensate for an increasingly saturated market? • Peru: many new developments announced, rural-electric • Costa Rica • Colombia


11:30 UTILITIES: HOW UTILITIES ARE PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE WAVE OF ENERGY STORAGE • Utility clients: providing scale with energy storage • How to target large, replicable systems • The challenge of high load clients: industrial, mining, factories

12:10 COMMERCIAL STORAGE MICROGRIDS: WHAT IS POWER RELIABILITY WORTH TO A CUSTOMER? • What’s reliability worth to the customer? • Battery reliability and transmission reliability • Does it justify the expense of energy storage? Initial and future expenses • Commercial customer board • Mining examples of successful projects (Chile) • The importance of power quality


MONETISING STORAGE PROJECTS

11:30 BEHIND AND IN FRONT OF THE METER • Economies of Scale: • Residential vs commercial vs industrial • “Sweet spot” of energy storage

12:30 TECHNICAL PANEL: DISTRIBUTED VS CENTRALIZED STORAGE • Safety concerns • Different functions: aid vs commercial vs residential • Co-location issues: compatibility


2:00 TECHNICAL PANEL: ENSURING POWER QUALITY • Frequency discussion • Hear from a manufacturer on importance of power quality for production • Load shifting through peak shaving: strategies with storage • Matching energy generation and demand

3:00 THE BIG PROBLEM: REAL ESTATE • Why invest now if technology might shrink soon?


4:00 ARE BATTERIES BETTER WITH A CENTRALIZED OR DISTRIBUTED MODEL? • Battery placement around project • Transmission would be different • Co-location? Satellite batteries?

5:00 Close of conference


2:00 STORAGE AND TECHNOLOGY • Blockchain • Data • Smart grids • Internet of things

MICROGRIDS

3:00 WHAT IS POWER RELIABILITY WORTH TO A CUSTOMER? • What’s reliability worth to the customer? Battery reliability and transmission reliability. • Does it justify the expense of energy storage? Initial and future expenses • Commercial customer board • Heating and cooling • Hospital • Emergency response The opportunity of commercial microgrids • Data centers • Remote energy • Aid • Hospitals • Emergency response • Analysis: cryo-lab disaster • NGOs


ELECTRIC VEHICLES

4:00 MOVING FORWARD: INSTALLING BATTERIES IN YOUR CITY • Electric batteries for self-charge • Electric public transit: how to use energy storage for cost savings



Day Three: Thursday 7th March 2019

07:30-08:30 BREAKFAST BRIEFING PUERTO RICO: A MODEL FOR DECENTRALISED ENERGY?

09:00 DESIGNING PROJECTS WITH WEATHER CONDITIONS IN MIND • What are the timelines to successful development of decentralised: o PV? o Biomass? o Wind and small wind? • Are microgrid projects more robust than traditional power lines? • How could microgrids be deployed to support transmission and distribution? • Rapid deployment in emergency situations and rapid redeployment during times of rebuilding

10:00 LEVELISED COST OF ENERGY • Comparison of project costs with traditional fuels with consideration to: o Import costs o Health and social impact o Jobs and skills development o Environmental protection • In terms of cost of energy; how long will it take to hit grid parity for different technologies?

11:00 CASE STUDY: HAWAII • Powerpack 2 project with Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative • Essentially: how the islands achieved self-sufficient through battery storage • The challenges they still have, review of outages


11:50 WHERE IS THE CAPITAL COMING FROM? • How donor agencies are investing – what mandates do they have in this space? • Identifying the donors active in each region • Private equity view on the most attractive markets • Debt and cost of finance • Infrastructure funds active in the space • For organisations providing capital, what are their criteria? o Ideal project size and technology mix o Grid and utility connected or commercial and industrial off-takers? o Investment into companies or projects? • What’s the balance of private and public money? • Is crowdfunding viable?


2:00 SUPPLY CHAIN • Mapping the supply chain: where would equipment be shipped from? • Cost of shipping: how would locations affect this?

3:00 DEVELOPER CASE STUDIES • Find out where delivered projects are located and how developers: o Secured capital o Secured land and permits o Secured an off-taker o Assessed and chose their components • Establishing good working relationships with local stakeholders



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