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2021 State EnergVirtualy Conference of North Carolina^ Connecting North Carolina's diverse energy economy April 19 – 22, 2021 #NCenergy2021 Hosted By Office of Professional Development 1 Visit our Virtual Exhibit Hall and Connect with the Following Organizations Sponsor Booths ® Exhibitor Booths Align RNG NC Clean Energy Technology Center Enviva NC State University, College of Natural Resources JM Test Systems Office of Professional Development Energy Management Johnson Controls Certificate McVeigh & Mangum Engineering Secure Futures Solar NC GreenPower Southern Energy Management, Inc. Thank you for participating in the conference. If you wish to receive continuing education credits and a certificate, your attendance will be recorded during live sessions. You may also submit your attendance for pre-recorded sessions. Please visit our sponsors’ exhibits and share your enthusiasm for this conference! 2 We gratefully acknowledge our sponsors for the 2021 State Energy Conference of North Carolina: Diamond Sponsor Leyline Southeastern Wind Coalition Duke Energy NC Sustainable Energy Association Watson Electrical Optima Engineering Solar Energy Industries Association Academic Partners Strata Solar Platinum Sponsors Appalachian State University / Bronze Sponsors Appalachian Energy Center NC Electric Cooperatives Advanced Energy NC A&T State University / Center for Siemens Booth & Associates Energy Research and Technology Gold Sponsors Carolina Solar Energy NC State University / FREEDM Systems Center Avangrid Renewables / Kitty Hawk Cypress Creek Renewables UNC-Charlotte / EPIC Hitachi ABB E4 Carolinas Brady Fox Rothschild LLP Media Sponsor Dominion Energy Greentech Solutions Group Energy News Network NC Petroleum Council Griffith Engineering Hosted By Kairos Government Affairs Silver Sponsor NCSU Office of Professional McKim & Creed Diane Cherry Consulting Development NC Military Business Center Electricities NC Clean Energy Technology Center Pine Gate supporting Renewables Engineered Control Solutions Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster Brady is your building services provider of North Carolina, and a proud sponsor of HITACHI ABB POWER GRIDS the 2021 State Energy Conference. INTRODUCING THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE CENTER IN RALEIGH, NC Built using innovative technology, the Center provides visitors, both in-person and virtually, with a 3D interactive tour of the technologies and solutions for power utilities, renewables, data centers, transportation, and other asset-intensive industries. Learn how to effectively integrate renewable energy sources, reduce GHG emissions and achieve your sustainability goals by immersing yourself into our highly engaging tour of solutions that will help you pave the way to a carbon-neutral future. bradyservices.com Explore virtually today at hitachi-powergrids.com/CECTour (800) 849-1915 3 Keynote Speakers: April 20 9:20.m Keynote: 10:00a.m Keynote: Sharon Allan, Chief Strategy Officer, Smart Electric Power Karen Wayland, CEO, The GridWise Alliance, Inc. Alliance (SEPA) Karen Wayland is CEO of GridWise Alliance and Sharon Allen serves as the Chief Strategy & Innovation Principal at kW Energy Strategies, where she provides Officer providing leadership and strategic direction for strategic consulting on grid modernization and clean the organization. She is an executive known for business energy policy. She is a recognized expert in national transformation and growth and has advised corporate energy and environmental policy and served in boards, Fortune 100 companies, venture & private leadership positions at the highest levels of government equity companies, as well as the U.S. Department of and nonprofits, including as policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology, and Energy and to the Speaker of the House. She serves as Director on many U.S. National Laboratories on their efforts to address the the Board of Center for Sustainable Energy and is a Distinguished transformation of the energy sector. Associate at Energy Futures Initiative, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Prior to joining SEPA, she held roles as the CEO of the Smart Grid Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy and an Equity in Interoperability Panel; Managing Director/partner Accenture; Energy Ambassador at the US Department of Energy. She holds a President, Elster Integrated Solutions as well as executive roles at ABB. Master of Science from the University of Connecticut and a Dual She currently sits on the advisory board of Enertech Capital. Ph.D. in the fields of geochemistry and resource development from Michigan State University. Sharon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Duke University Fuqua Business School. Keynote Speakers: April 21 9:00a.m Keynote Plenary: Andy Geissbuehler, Advisory Director (Renewable Resources Int’l), BVG Associates Offshore Wind Opportunity for the Mid- Atlantic Andy brings over 25 years of EPC energy project experience and held executive positions with Katharine Kollins, President of the Southeastern Wind multinationals such as ABB, Alstom and GE. He led Coalition - Moderator Alstom’s wind business in North America for seven years, Katharine Kollins is President of the Southeastern Wind including delivery and installation of Block Island while Coalition, a non-profit dedicated to advancing wind heading up GE’s US offshore wind operations. Further, power in the Southeast through outreach and he served as Chairman for several wind energy operators. education. Since September 2015 she has managed Andy’s consulting experience includes advising US East Coast States SEWC’s programming across 11 states working with a on supply chain, port infrastructure and wind energy strategic wide variety of stakeholders to promote land-based, planning. He also progressed an innovative Jones Act marine logistic offshore, and imported wind power. solution in partnership US oil & gas, European project- and vessel Katharine’s experience in the wind industry includes working for operating companies and US based private equity. Boston-based developer First Wind, consulting with Vestas R&D to Brian Krevor, Lead Environmental Protection Specialist, Office formulate a federal grant funding strategy, and a role as business of Renewable Energy Programs, Environment Branch for development manager for The Wind Alliance. Katharine has also Renewable Energy, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management worked in other renewable energy capacities as an analyst at the Nicholas Institute and authoring an NREL paper on third-Party PPA Brian is the NEPA Team Lead within the Environmental financing of solar systems.. Branch for Renewable Energy in BOEM’s Office of Renewable Energy Programs (OREP). Prior to serving as Prior to the Southeastern Wind Coalition, Katharine worked for the NEPA Team Lead, Brian was an environmental RTI International where she was the finance lead for two $30M+ coordinator with OREP for 9 years. During that time divisions. In her role at RTI Katharine led the creation and start-up of Brian served as the environmental lead for projects in a new business segment that allowed RTI to win over $30M in new Massachusetts, North Carolina, and South Carolina and coordinated work during its first year. the Draft EIS for the Vineyard Wind project. He is currently also the Katharine is a 2009 graduate of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and environmental lead for the Ocean Wind project as well as the office Nicholas School of the Environment, where she earned her MBA and lead for CZMA and Environmental Justice. Brian received a bachelor’s Master of Environmental Management. Katharine currently services degree with a Major in Environmental Policy and a Minor in History on the board of Advanced Energy as an appointee of North Carolina from Tulane University. Governor, Roy Cooper. 4 John Larson, Director of Public Policy & Economic Public Health from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the Development, Dominion Energy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007. While at Carolina, Jennifer focused her studies on environmental policy. John Larson joined Dominion Energy in 1996 and is currently the Director of Public Policy and Economic In addition to her role as Senior Policy Advisor, Jennifer represents Development. During John’s career at the company he North Carolina on the Regional Energy Resources Council to the has held various leadership positions in business Tennessee Valley Authority, and currently serves as Council Chair. Her development, alternative energy technologies and energy expertise has been tapped by Governor Cooper to lead the construction. He is well versed in offshore wind through Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s North Carolina Renewable his experience in the development and early permitting activities for Energy Task Force. Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) Pilot Project. Eric A. Thumma, Senior Director for New Business Offshore Currently, a large part of his time is spent on Dominion Energy’s Wind, Avangrid Renewables Business to Business, Workforce Development and Community In this role as Senior Director for New Business Eric A. Outreach activity for as the Company moves forward implementing Thumma leads the U.S. offshore businesses’ commercial the requirements of the Virginia Clean Economy Act, including the activities including RFP responses, offtake agreements, 16,100 MW of solar, 5,200 MW of offshore wind and 2,700