Adam Kuehne
Adam Kuehne
Speaker
CIO

Summit Ridge Energy

United States

Adam Kuehne is the Chief Investment Officer for Summit Ridge Energy. A member of the company's Executive Committee, Adam leads origination, negotiation and execution of Summit Ridge's capital formation efforts and oversees asset management. He previously led capital markets for TerraForm Power and TerraForm Global, where he raised over $14 billion of capital and led financing, M&A and operational activities of the companies' 4 GW solar and wind portfolio. Before TerraForm, Adam was an investment banker in the Leveraged Finance group of Barclays Capital where he structured debt financing across the power and natural resources sectors. He began his career as an officer in the U.S. Navy, serving for seven years as a submarine nuclear engineer, intelligence analyst and electronic warfare officer in Iraq. Adam holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy, an M.S. in Engineering from The Catholic University of America, and an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.

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You Make My Dreams Come True: Distributed Generation

John Bates
CEO,
Radial Power
Pari Kasotia
Senior Director/Head of State and Federal Policy,
Luminace
Hannah McGovern
Vice President - Structured Finance,
DSD Renewables
Adam Kuehne
CIO,
Summit Ridge Energy
Moderator
Maura Murphy
Head of Production,
TXF

When we talk about DG we talk about the lower cost energy, distribution level capacity, operating reserves and grid resilience – not to mention higher integration of renewable energy to the grid. How big is the opportunity to scale up? Our session leaders will discuss:

  • Increased competition - good for consumers, bad for pricing? 

  • What benefits does DG provide in terms of resiliency and solving for intermittency and affordability? How can we capitalize on those provisions? 

  • Integrating Virtual Power Plants - how can they optimize DG assets? For new capacity deployments, is the centralized utility model economically obsolete?

  • What factors help developers identify regions best suited for new buildout?