Our 2024 Large Scale USA Sponsors & Partners
If you would like to enquire about becoming a sponsor of our Large Scale Solar USA, to help you strengthen your market credibility, put your brand in front of your key target markets and meet your investment and business goals then email the team today to find out more.
Gold Sponsor
Founded in 1997, Trina Solar has led the PV industry in technological innovation and manufacturing excellence for over 25 years. With more than 170GW of cumulative global shipments, including more than 90GW of 210mm modules, Trina’s PV modules and suite of smart solar solutions deliver clean, affordable, and reliable energy to homes, businesses, and power plants. With a history of innovation and bankability, the company engages in a wide range of PV activities, including R&D, manufacturing, sales, project development, and energy cloud-platform operation. From its North American headquarters in Fremont, California, the company employs a diverse, nationwide team of experts in engineering, technology, sales, finance, marketing, operations, and more, to help US solar developers and EPCs deliver project success. The company is currently developing a 5GW manufacturing base in Wilmer, Texas. With its mission of “Solar energy for all,” Trina Solar is committed to working with others to create a net-zero future. For more information, please visit www.trinasolar.com.
Silver Sponsor
Under the CHINT Group, Astronergy is an intelligent manufacturing enterprise focusing on photovoltaic cells and modules. Founded in 2006, it is one of the earliest private enterprises in China to set foot in the photovoltaic field, and a pioneer in n-type TOPCon PV modules. Committed to be the most competitive photovoltaic module supplier worldwide, Astronergy sets its mission to create a sustainable and net-zero carbon world with solar power. Focusing on R&D, production and sales of high-efficiency crystalline silicon PV cells and PV modules, Astronergy has continuously launched the ASTRO series high-efficiency, high-quality, high-performance modules. Big-size wafer tech enables both bifacial and monofacial ASTRO series modules could be perfectly applied in all scenarios of utility-scale power stations, commercial & industrial (C&I) PV systems and residential PV systems. Pioneered the mass production of n-type TOPCon PV modules and Astronergy keeps leads in n-type TOPCon PV cell tech.
Soltec is a leader company in the design and manufacturing of solar trackers with a strong commitment to innovation and sustainability. Headquartered in Murcia (Spain), the company was founded in 2004 and currently operates in 16 countries, with a strong presence in Spain, North America, and Latin America. The company has been listed on the Spanish Continuous Market since 2020. Soltec structures its activity through three main business areas: i) the photovoltaic project development division, with a strong commitment to environmental, social, and governance practices; ii) the industrial division, through which it offers additional construction services to its clients, ensuring a complete and integrated value proposition; iii) Soltec Asset Management, a third business division through which Soltec manages its portfolio assets, with the aim of maximizing medium and long-term benefits.
Bronze Sponsors
Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.
Empact Technologies maximizes the impact of clean energy project tax incentives with the industry’s premier IRA management platform. Empact combines proprietary SaaS technology with professional services to ensure regulatory compliance, secure project construction financing, and protect investors from IRS recapture risk.
Empact works with EPCs to proactively identify and manage IRS regulatory requirements for prevailing wage and apprenticeship compliance issues before they impact tax credits. Collaborating with steel, iron, and major equipment suppliers ensures domestic content tax incentive qualification. Empact also supports developers to confirm energy community and low-income community qualification.
Empact enables successful transactions by reducing investor-required protections. When tax credits are sold, Empact protects the tax credit investor from recapture audit risk by maintaining a comprehensive compliance data repository for the full ITC or PTC tax period.
Empact offers a complete turnkey experience for developers to create community benefits, implement project-level ESG, sustainability, and supplier diversity, while managing project execution risk.
Origami Solar is the developer of a patented steel solar panel frame that will transform the solar industry through high-speed domestic production, dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions and superior strength and durability vs. aluminum. By sourcing steel from an established industry ecosystem, solar module manufacturers can eliminate supply chain constraints, accelerate the transition to carbon-free energy, and level the global playing field for module production. Origami Solar was awarded the grand prize in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) American-Made Solar Prize competition in 2022 and PV Magazine’s Manufacturing Innovation of the Year in 2023, recognizing the disruptive value and market potential of a high-performance steel module frame.
TGS is a leading provider of asset and real-time data management solutions designed for utility-scale solar PV and its asset owners, operators and O&M service providers. With decades of experience in digitalizing the energy sector, we empower our customers to optimize solar asset performance. This translates to lower OPEX and increased revenues. Backed by 2000+ successful software installations, we have impacted over 11 GW of renewable assets. Our enterprise asset management platform, PowerView™, integrates cutting-edge features including top-tier data ingestion, AI-driven tools for detailed loss estimation, performance analytics, forecasting, and open APIs. All with the goal of empowering owners and operators through smart and data-driven decision-making.
Supporting Sponsors
Aurora is a widely-used and trusted provider of critical power market analysis. Rigorous analysis and quantification underpin everything we do, and is the basis for unique insights and sought-after advice. We are power market specialists who strongly believe that dedicated focus on wholesale markets allows us to provide deep market expertise and high-quality insights. Our proximity to markets and clients is crucial for providing well-informed and balanced analysis, grounded in reality for major investment, strategic and policy decisions. Aurora’s innovative and cutting-edge approaches challenge the status quo of power market analysis and bring new tools and methodologies for the benefit of our clients. We are independent thought partners who challenge beliefs, assumptions and strategies as well as contributing to and influencing government policy and the wider energy discussion.
CPS America is the maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems. CPS America has offices in California, New Jersey, and Texas.
CLEAN ENERGY ASSOCIATES helps buyers and long-term owners of solar and energy storage equipment buy the right products and ensure they are properly manufactured and installed. The rapid growth of the clean energy industry is exhilarating but the explosion of new technologies, new companies, new factories, new markets, and new business models can be hard to stay on top of and brings new risks. From our headquarters in Denver and our Asian base in Shanghai, CEA provides our clients with investment confidence as we allow them to get a "peek behind the curtain" to understand what is really happening upstream in supply chains and production facilities and downstream in project design and execution. CEA's global team has helped our diverse customer base of project developers, EPCs, IPPs, and financial institutions understand industry trends and market dynamics, select the best suppliers, negotiate the best contracts, carefully audit production processes, test equipment in the field, and perform technical and acquisition due diligence. Our experience executing over 175 GW of solar and 15GWh of storage projects in over 70 countries, including work in over 350 production facilities, is invaluable to our clients as they navigate the ever-changing and hyper-competitive landscape of clean energy. CEA is a subsidiary of Intertek Group plc, a FTSE listed company based in London, with 1,000 test labs and 44,000 professionals working in 100+ countries.
Enverus is the leading energy SaaS company delivering highly-technical insights and predictive/prescriptive analytics that empower customers to make decisions that increase profit. Enverus’ innovative technologies drive production and investment strategies, enable best practices for energy and commodity trading and risk management, and reduce costs through automated processes across critical business functions. Enverus is a strategic partner to more than 6,000 customers in 50 countries.
Exhibitors
Atonometrics develops and manufactures measurement systems for PV projects. Our soiling systems include the Mars optical soiling sensor and the RDE based systems for measuring soiling on full-size modules. Our irradiance sensors measure POA, GHI, and diffuse irradiation, along with bifacial irradiance applications. In business since 2007, we have installed thousands of systems worldwide in over 45 countries. Included in our product lineup is our new RDE 300i, which won the PV Magazine award for best new product in the 2023 Balance-of-Systems category. This product is an inline IV measurement system with applications that include soiling measurements, degradation measurements, and near-term production forecasting capabilities.
About FlexGen Power Systems, Inc. Based in Durham, N.C., FlexGen is a leading integration services and software technology provider for energy storage solutions in the United States and globally. FlexGen designs and integrates storage solutions and the software platform that is enabling today’s energy transition. Leveraging its best-in-class energy management software and power electronics, FlexGen delivers utility-scale storage projects integrated with traditional and renewable power generation globally. Our clients and partners include the most technically and commercially demanding developers, utilities, government agencies and industrial companies in the world. To learn more, please visit www.flexgen.com.
LandGate is the leading provider of data solutions and an online marketplace for US commercial real estate and energy: land, solar, EV’s, energy storage, wind, carbon, minerals, and water. The company helps investors, developers, real estate professionals, and property owners connect on the world’s largest marketplace for CRE and energy related transactions.
Founded in 1999, Quickbase has since become the leading application platform for dynamic work. Used for complex work and project management, the platform empowers more than 6,000 customers to see, connect, and control their people, processes, and data all in one centralized location. Named an Inc’s Best Businesses of 2022, see for yourself why Quickbase is at the forefront of business-led innovation at Quickbase.com. Quickbase – All together now.
Our Goal is to Develop 1 Giga Watt of Solar Installations by the year 2030 Our Focus Region is the Texas ERCOT Market, with other sites across the US and Mexico. We work with land owners, investors, developers, and engineering and construction firms in early stage, Large Scale Solar and Battery Energy Storage development.
Suzhou Talesun Solar Technologies Co., Ltd. established in 2009 is a holding subsidiary of Zhongli Group with a total investment of RMB 4.56 billion. The company, operational in 2011, is engaged in the R&D and cells and modules manufacturing, as well as EPC contracting of PV power plants. 2015, in the leader certification scheme jointly launched by three national ministries and commissions, Talesun obtained the CQC leader certification scheme module's most efficient class 1 certificate. 2016, Talesun launched innovative high-efficiency. In 2017, Talesun was awarded "5th in module brand value", "2nd in EPC brand value" and "4th in power plant developer brand value" by PV Brand Lab. It was also ranked as one of the top PV companies in the "2017 China Top 20 PV Power Plant EPC Turnkey Enterprises", and ranked in the Top 10 Bloomberg Finance's PV Module Manufacturer Rating Tier 1 list. PVTECH released the top 10 module suppliers, and Talesun ranked ninth. PV InfoLink's database of module suppliers ranked Talesun 10th."Top 10 Distributed PV Module Brands in 2021", "Top 10 BIPV brands in 2021", "Polaris Cup -2021 Annual Impact PV cell/Module Brand", "OFweek2022 Annual Super Power PV Module Award", "OFweek2022 Annual Growth Enterprise", "CREC2022 Top 10 PV Module Brands", "the 11th Polaris Cup 2022 Annual Impact PV Development Investor /EPC Brand" and other honors.
Transect delivers a site assessment platform that enables renewable energy developers to discover high-quality renewable energy sites in minutes. Transect aggregates an unparalleled array of data sources, supporting your project workflows with immediate access to valuable insights about environmental concerns, permit requirements, topography, transmission infrastructure, and more. With Transect, project developers can focus resources on prime sites, avoid costly risks, and quickly and confidently move projects forward.
Editorial Partners
Energy-Storage.news offers a full news service along with in-depth analysis on important topics and industry developments, covering notable projects, business models, policies and regulations, technical innovations and more. The website, from the makers of PV Tech, is an essential tool for anyone within the energy storage value chain.
The PV Tech Power publication explores technology and its impact on downstream PV projects. With a focus on technologies impacting LCOE (Levelised Cost of Energy) of commercial and utility scale solar energy plants world-wide, PV Tech Power addresses all key stakeholder groups that can accelerate the global large scale deployment of solar energy and storage technologies
Media Partners
CleanTX, born from the merger of two esteemed non-profits, TREIA (founded in 1985) and CleanTX (established in 2006), is the leading non-profit economic development and professional association propelling cleantech and renewable energy in Texas. Our mission is to modernize the power grid, advancing renewable integration through strategic alliances and industry collaboration across our chapters in Texas. Looking to the future, our vision is clear: achieve 50% renewable energy integration in Texas by 2030. Join CleanTX in accelerating the growth of cleantech and renewable energy, shaping a cleaner, greener future for the Lone Star State. Explore our initiatives at cleantx.org.
Financial Service Review is a leading technology magazine that reaches out to over 56,000 print subscribers and over 85,000 digital subscribers. It provides a comprehensive platform for senior-level industry experts, buyers, and decision-makers to share their insights following a unique learn-by-peers approach.
Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (TAEBA) includes local and national advanced energy companies seeking to make Texas’s energy system secure, clean, reliable, and affordable. TAEBA’s mission is to raise awareness among policymakers and the general public about the opportunity offered by all forms of advanced energy for cost savings, electric system reliability and resiliency, and economic growth in the state of Texas. TAEBA is a chapter of the national business association Advanced Energy United. Learn more at https://www.texasadvancedenergy.org/ and follow our latest news @TXAdvEnergyBiz.
The Texas Solar Power Association (TSPA) is a statewide industry trade association that promotes the development of solar electric generation in Texas. TSPA is advancing the solar and storage industry in Texas and laying a foundation for its long-term success. Our distinguished member companies invest in the development of solar photovoltaic (PV) products and storage products and projects in Texas, cost-competitively serving customers in both wholesale and retail markets. TSPA membership includes manufacturers, large-scale power plant developers, residential and commercial rooftop integrators, and other companies in Texas participating across the full solar photovoltaic supply chain.
WiRE's mission is to advance the role and recognition of women and other under-represented groups working in the energy sector. Inclusive of all renewable energy and clean energy technologies, our programming includes national and international chapters, student chapters, capacity-building field trips, networking meet-ups, awards recognition programs, student bursaries, speed mentoring, speed interviewing, spotlights, conferences, workshops, and more! Launched in 2013, WiRE forges partnerships with government agencies and a spectrum of energy industry associations, other related networking groups for professionals, and academic providers. WiRE appreciates the financial and industry support it receives from our sponsors, which helps to provide our programming at low or no cost.
If you would like to enquire about becoming a sponsor of our Large Scale Solar USA, to help you strengthen your market credibility, put your brand in front of your key target markets and meet your investment and business goals then email the team today to find out more.