K. Johnston
NextGen Energy,
United States
Keywords: finance, energy storage, tax benefits, public private partnerships
Summary:
This session will focus on novel and viable market-based strategies to stimulate capital investment towards energy storage project development for U.S. States, Public Power, Critical Infrastructure Owners and Operators. Kimberly Johnston, CEO of NextGen Energy, is an active industry member of the National Consortium of Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Technologies and a nationally recognized speaker on grid transformative solutions who successfully secured a Top 10 U.S. Department of Energy State Grid Innovation Award of $500 million. The session will cover the following topics: I. Energy Storage Global and U.S. Market Growth Outlook II. Energy Storage Value Proposition and Use Cases III. Financing Strategies to Mobilize Investment towards LDES Technologies IV. Tax Investment Credits and Domestic Content Rules V. Private-Public Partnership Structuring Options A presentation will be developed and tailored to the TechConnect Raileigh conference and attendees. Potential co-presenters may join to offer diversified perspectives.