Advocating for Public Policies to Promote the Development & Production of Alternative Fuels, Renewable Chemicals, Biobased Products, and Sustainable Aviation Fuels
Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition
Workshop Sessions
AFCC Conference Workshop Sessions
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Workshop Session Details​
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The Workshops will be on Friday, November 22, from 10 AM to 11:30 AM
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The AFCC Workshop sessions will offer a hands-on approach to learning in addition to skills-building. These sessions will offer a moderated, in-depth discussion among a group of experts offering diverse viewpoints around a particular topic.
The Workshop sessions are for those who seek to grow their industrial biotechnology knowledge, investment opportunities, government funding and for those seeking capital and sustainable solutions to real-world problems. These workshops will be packed with high energy and a must-attend event.
The AFCC Global Biobased Economy Conference & Exhibit organizes these workshops in order to connect you, the attendee, to industry leaders’ suppliers, investors, government agencies, engineering and construction organizations, technology insurance solutions, and peers. AFCC workshops are sponsored events from both public and private organizations.
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Workshop sessions will be focused on the following five subject areas:
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1. Project Finance Panel: State of The Art Funding and Contract Structures for Renewable Fuels and Chemicals Projects
Friday, November 22 - 10 AM to 11:30 AM - Annapolis 1
This workshop Sponsored by:
Moderator: Mark J. Riedy, Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Sponsors and Panelists:
Managing Director, Barclays
Managing Director - Program Development, New Energy Risk, LLC
This panel will discuss the most unique, challenging and state of the art renewable fuels, chemicals and bio-based products funding and tax structures for each of commercial, municipal, corporate and non-traditional debt, equity, grant and insurance in light of the $800 million+ climate and energy funding and long term tax incentives under the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). These funding and tax structures include senior debt and associated leasing mechanisms, tax incentive collateral for development capital structures, other development capital, mezzanine debt for working capital, subdebt structures such as New Market Tax Credits and EB5 funds; strategic, institutional, and tax incentive driven equity; (including Opportunity Zone Funds, Biomass Development Opportunity Zones); and credit enhancing technology risk mitigation insurance and government guarantees. The panel will examine the status of the IRA investment and production tax (ITCs and PTCs) incentives, and the available IIJA grant RFPs for each of these energy sources. The panelists also will discuss the most creative contractual structures for offtake agreements, including the use of Federal, State and International tax (PTCs) and regulatory (RINs, LCFS, Canadian Clean Fuel Standard, CORSIA) incentives in pricing provisions, various feedstock considerations, merchant versus long term contractual arrangements, and other necessary provisions. It also will discuss offtake and feedstock prices, LCFS and RIN blended fixed floors and ceilings with related incentive sharing arrangements including percentage developer/offtaker RIN, LCFS and PTC splits; use of renewable hydrogen and captured carbon processing to increase SAF and renewable diesel volumes and revenues; mitigation of regulatory-out provisions through regulatory risk insurance protecting RINs, LCFS and tax credits; EPC performance guarantees/wraps supported by technology risk insurance protections; use of Section 45Q and renewable power structures to increase LCFS values using insurance protections; use of feedstock insurance to protect quality and quantity; among other provisions and structures. The panel will address these mechanisms and structures from the perspectives of leading offtakers, product developers, project finance attorneys, significant strategic equity and other investors, insurance companies, and investment and commercial bankers daily securing and structuring funds and the required contracts for manufacturing projects.
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2. Assessing Opportunity in the Carbon Value Chain
Friday, November 22 - 10 AM to 11:30 AM - Annapolis 2
This workshop Sponsored by:
Moderator: Matthew Stone, Managing Director, Resource Wise Prima Markets
The panel will focus on value propositions the emerging carbon mitigation and removals landscape. After identifying the scale of the carbon mitigation and removals challenge facing the global economy, the panel will address the struggle of carbon mitigation solutions to find their value into varying national carbon accounting schemes. From a floor price in fungible biofuel markets, including an outlook on economics and supply and demand changes under 2025 legislative packages, the panel will address the value proposition for emerging large scale supply streams such as biogenic sequestration and e-fuels.
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Changes examined will include:
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2025 Clean Fuel Producers Credit
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LCFS revisions
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The spread of state supports: a view from the US South
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RED III Aviation and Maritime mandates
The panel will address optionality for early innovators, and opportunity for firms looking to consolidate and commoditize markets to help them build the scale climate solutions governments and corporates require.