Thank You To All Our Sponsors for The Support!

Scottie Scheffler Sponsors

Alpha Generation

AlphaGen is a strategic partnership formed and owned by an affiliate of ArcLight to own and operate critical power infrastructure to help provide reliable, secure, safe, and sustainable sources of power and meet the growing infrastructure needs created by electrification. AlphaGen is led by a deeply experienced senior management team with a proven track record of strategic, operational, and commercial expertise to help create value and manage risk.  AlphaGen manages over 13,000 megawatts of power infrastructure across four RTO markets (PJM, NYISO, ISONE, and CAISO), and oversees Eastern Generation, Generation Bridge, and Parkway Generation, amongst other ArcLight investments. For more information, please visit www.alphagen.com.

Astoria Energy, LLC

Barclay Damon

Barclay Damon’s nationally recognized energy practice provides customized, targeted solutions to our energy clients across the United States on power generation and distribution, including renewables—hydroelectric, wind (offshore and onshore), solar, storage, and biomass—as well as natural gas and other fossil fuels, nuclear, and transmission and distribution infrastructure. Our Property Tax Team offers a full range of services to our energy clients nationally on due diligence analysis, traditional real property tax management, and property tax compliance.

Boilermakers Local 5

The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers is a diverse union representing over 100,000 workers throughout the United States and Canada in construction, repair, maintenance, manufacturing, professional emergency medical services, and related industries. With its headquarters in Kansas City, Kansas, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers unites 420 Local Lodges throughout North America, providing numerous services for Local Lodges and individual members and uniting all our members in our common endeavor: to improve the lives and lifestyles of our members.

Castleton Commodities Energy Services (“CCES”) 

Castleton Commodities Energy Services (“CCES”) is a leading provider of energy management and optimization services.  With deep market expertise and robust energy management experience, CCES offers comprehensive bid-to-bill services with a focus on creating value for clients in complex markets.  Our approach is grounded in long-term relationships, attention to detail, and a relentless focus on innovation. By delivering customized strategies, CCES helps clients navigate market challenges and unlock long-term value.

Constellation 

Constellation is the nation’s largest producer of carbon-free energy and a leading competitive retail supplier of power and energy products and services for homes and businesses across the United States. A Fortune 200 company headquartered in Baltimore, Constellation's generation fleet produces enough energy to power 15 million homes and is helping to accelerate the nation’s transition to clean energy with more than 32,400 megawatts of capacity and annual output that is 90 percent carbon-free.

Harris Beach Murtha

Harris Beach Murtha is more than a law firm. We are a strategic partner dedicated to providing legal services that align with your business goals and spur success. We are a one-stop shop for problem solving – a mid-size firm with full-service capabilities that help your business navigate legal challenges and manage day-to-day operations. 

A forward-thinking and innovative partner with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, our New York roots reach back to 1856 and we have had ties to New England since 1936. We are a regional heavyweight firm with more than 250 attorneys across 16 offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia.

Led by the only former head of both the New York State PSC and NYSERDA, our multi-disciplinary Energy Industry Team combines the knowledge and experience of a broad range of relevant practice areas helping public and private entities save money, manage risk and capitalize on an ever-changing energy landscape. Harris Beach Murtha helps organizations navigate the legal issues surrounding energy initiatives and take full advantage of leading governmental energy, environmental and economic development programs. We take an interdisciplinary, no time wasted, team approach to crafting comprehensive legal solutions as unique as the energy industry developers, producers, investors and end users we represent. Our representation spans all aspects of federal and state regulatory proceedings, including generation siting, utility rates, permitting, and zoning and land use.

National Grid Ventures

National Grid Ventures (NGV) is at the forefront of the energy transition. We operate across the UK, Europe and US, developing, operating, and investing in large-scale clean energy infrastructure. We’re helping to accelerate society’s drive towards net zero while maintaining security of supply today.

NGV runs separately from National Grid plc’s core regulated operations. We’ve built a broad portfolio of businesses that work together to keep the lights on, decarbonise the economy and power a clean, fair and affordable energy future for consumers. 

Our diverse businesses include subsea electricity interconnectors, wind and solar power generation, competitive electricity transmission, battery storage, conventional generation and LNG regasification and storage. We’re also developing emerging technologies such as multi-purpose interconnectors and hydrogen, which could play a key role in decarbonisation.

Above all, we are a team of passionate, purpose-driven people committed to making a difference today and in the future by making the energy system better for everyone.

SKANSKA

Swan Contracting

Swan Contracting is a union electrical contracting company based here in the Capital District and have been in business since 2019. While we are a general commercial electrical contracting company, we primarily work with developers and EPC’s to perform the electrical installations for solar projects from the community solar size up to the mega utility scale projects here in NY. 

Rory McIlroy Sponsor

Vistra

Vistra is the largest competitive power generator in the U.S., with a capacity of approximately 41,000 megawatts, or enough to power 20 million homes, operating in all of the major competitive wholesale markets in the country. Vistra is a leader in transforming the energy landscape, with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability, powered by a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. The company continues to grow its zero-carbon resources, operating the second-largest fleet of competitive nuclear power plants in the country, substantial battery energy storage capacity, and a growing number of solar facilities.

Justin Thomas Sponsor

Customized Energy Solutions

Customized Energy Solutions is at the forefront of competitive energy markets. Established in 1998, CES was created to assist clients in managing the changes in the wholesale and retail electric markets. As the industry restructured, many participants recognized the value of creating sound market rules and staying abreast of market changes. Thus, Customized Energy Solutions was created to address the need to simplify, analyze, and influence the markets on behalf of our clients. Our clients can focus on running their businesses, while we focus on removing barriers to them doing so.

Tommy Fleetwood Sponsor

BHE GT&S

BHE GT&S is an interstate natural gas transmission and storage company with operations in 10 states and total assets of 5,400 miles of pipeline and 756 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of storage.

In New York, through our operating company Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage (EGTS), we operate nearly 900 miles of pipeline, eight compressor stations with more than 102,000 horsepower of compression and two natural gas storage facilities with a storage capacity of 4 Bcf working gas storage. EGTS’s underground natural gas storage system is the largest in the northeast and one of the largest in the United States.

Tee Sponsor

Empire Generating

Empire Generating Facility is a combined-cycle plant generating approximately 535 megawatts (MW) of electricity (635 MW Peaking) with two General Electric 7FA gas turbines, two Alstom OCC heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) and one steam turbine generator. The HRSG includes a natural gas- fired duct burner (supplemental firing system). Selective catalytic reduction technology (SCR) and an oxidation catalyst is used to control oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO) emissions, respectively.

Read and Laniado, LLP

The Firm is actively involved in matters before the New York Independent System Operator (“NYISO”), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), the New York State Office of Renewal Energy Siting, the New York State Public Service Commission, the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment (the Siting Board), the Department of Environmental Conservation, municipal planning boards and state and federal courts.  The Firm represents a variety of market participants, including generating station, solar, wind and energy storage permitting, and transmission line developers, and provides services concerning environmental, financing, asset purchases and sales transactions, eminent domain and real property matters.  Read and Laniado has worked with and advised both lender’s and borrower’s counsel, as well as industrial development authority counsel, in financial transactions.  The Firm also has extensive experience with land use, zoning, and municipal laws relating to the provision of water, electricity, steam and natural gas.