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Copperleaf can help your organization decide where and when to invest in your business to maximize capital efficiency, meet performance targets, manage risk, and achieve your ESG and financial goals.
Activities
Tuesday February 7
11:40am – 12:10pm: Equitable Investment Strategies for a Just Energy Transition with Damien Quentin
Hub #643, Exhibit Floor
3:00pm – 6:00pm: Cantina! Stop by the Copperleaf booth for some beer and networking
Booth #2839, Exhibit Floor
Wednesday February 8
11:15am – 11:45am: How to Build a Defensible Investment Plan to Streamline Regulatory Approval with Rachel Grillot and Jim Shields
31B, Upper Level
2:00pm – 4:00pm: Demo Sessions with Black & Veatch
Booth #4801, Exhibit Floor
4:00pm – 5:00pm: It’s 5 O’clock Somewhere! Visit the Copperleaf booth for beer, wine, and networking
Booth #2839, Exhibit Floor
Speaking Sessions

Equitable Investment Strategies for a Just Energy Transition
Damien Quentin, ESG Leader in the Americas, shares a few examples of how organizations can build greater trust and social capital and accelerate progress in the energy transition through equitable asset investment planning by:
- Developing a better understanding of the types of environmental and social impacts most relevant to your business and how to utilize information about communities and demographics to take action
- Ensuring that your asset management and investment plans quantify environmental and social impacts
- Learning about existing tools and data sets that can enable your planning and strategy

How to Build a Defensible Investment Plan to Streamline Regulatory Approval
How can utilities build a defensible plan that balances investing in the future and maintaining service and reliability today? Rachel Grillot, Senior Solutions Consultant, Americas at Copperleaf and Jim Shields, Principal Consultant at Black & Veatch will discuss how utilities can:
- Quantify all benefits for investment plans by utilizing value-based decision-making
- Ensure that every dollar spent will deliver maximum value to customers and the grid
- Gain full regulatory approval despite intervenor concerns with a clear, defensible plan that balances investing in the future with maintaining service and reliability today