Proximo's Deals of the Year Awards Ceremony comes to Nashville on June 16th 2025! Please join us as we celebrate the best and brightest deals and firms in 2024 across energy and infrastructure in North America. The awards dinner is invitation only.

Deal submissions are still open, if you think your deal should be considered please reach out to the team at submissions@exilegroup.com 

Calling all trailblazers! Grab your sleeping bag and trail maps and get ready for Camp Proximo 2025! 

Camp leaders welcome you to the event and walk through key trends and potential hazards you might face on your trails - we'll prepare you for your stay at Camp Proximo with our data presentation; a full review of the US Energy and Infrastructure markets with a keen eye on what these trends might tell us going forward. 

Our opening keynote panel convenes leading voices in the market as they discuss the formational change we will need to see in leveraging regulatory, policy, and financing structures in order for our common goals to be realized: a cleaner world, a healthy planet, and infrastructure that supports us for generations to come.

• What asset classes can benefit from revision of commonly used financial structures? 

• Where are there flexibilities in the current structures to begin implementing new ways to access the full potential of the current capital market 

• Are there alternative pools of capital that we should be looking towards for future buildout? What capital currently lends itself to being the most useful for different assets?

Lenders unite! Join Project Finance Heads as they explore the new capital environment and navigating associated risks 

• Is “amend and extend” here to stay? How have changes (or lack thereof) in interest rates affected investment decisions? 

• How are we defining private credit? institutional debt only, or do a broader range of credit market options apply? Does the distinction matter how it acts?

Grab your campfire coffee and chat with campers from other cabins as you explore more of the venue

• Path to feasibility for hydrogen 

• What major blockades the industry still faces; and solutions going into place for address them 

• Accessing tax credits, federal funding and attracting investors - demystifying the track to financial close

Our panel of top speakers explores providing for the exponential demand from the digital and TMT sector. 

• Do data centers continue to dominate the sector, or will overbuild stem the flow of new buildout? 

• How are investors and lenders sourcing new opportunities in the sector? 

• What challenges are there in updating active infrastructure, and what strategies are being deployed?

Labor costs, material costs, supply chain issues, pandemics, inflation and high  interest rates seem to have become a new normal for the infrastructure market to deal with. The pressures have eased overall, but many of the lingering effects of these factors continue to push the availability of capital for new projects. 

• Risk transfer, capital requirements, and labor shortages affecting project delivery 

• What has been the biggest continuous pain point for infrastructure projects? Has that affected the way you are evaluating your risk appetite? 

With total deal volumes in the United States north of $27 Billion, the power and renewable market is as strong as ever.  Welcome our session leaders as they delve into the top trends in financing and origination in the sector! We’ll explore: 

• What assets are expected to have the highest deal volume in 2025

• Review of the 2024 market - what worked and lessons learned 

Financing for port infrastructure and new LNG projects are typically some of the largest projects by volume. Our panel reviews the recent blockbuster deals and explores the future of the sector. 

• Where is the lion’s share of the demand coming from? 

• Analysis of investors and lenders for projects of this type - location,  risk appetite and size

• What are future expectations of large scale projects given the recent issues with Rio Grande LNG?

• Lay of the land: who is seizing the best opportunities in the market? 

• Best practices in seeking institutional debt for digital asset classes, and the rise of Private Placements in digital infrastructure 

• Are appetites for digital infrastructure growing into new players, or is the risk curve still more geared towards high capital and high risk markets?

State and Federal incentive schemes have historically been the driving force for new infrastructure buildout. How are developers viewing the legacy of the IIJA and the IRA, and what are we looking for in terms of future supporting legislation and frameworks? 

• What works and what needs some polish: policy and regulatory framework review

• Policy drives progress in most cases, how can active policies further support new infrastructure buildout?

Tax equity continues to dominate the landscape around financing structures for renewable energy assets. Opportunities like direct pay and transferability have further excited developers and opened the playing field for many that may not have qualified in the past. 

• What investment structures are turning out most popular to replace traditional tax equity to enhance sponsor returns?

• Explore how tax equity lenders are qualifying recapture risk

• Success stories and best practices in transferability

Join us in the mess hall to fill up on some delicious grub and share ideas from discussions throughout your morning

Efforts are in place to increase geothermal energy production, aiming for 90 GW by 2050.  With $74 million for pilot projects to test enhanced geothermal systems on the table from the DOE LPO, there’s a lot of jobs and potential projects on the table

• Accessing DOE Support for Advanced Geothermal - the road to feasibility 

• What locations are best fit for geothermal? What communities are most likely to benefit? 

• What investors and lenders are best suited for new investment in geothermal

Explore key features of Digital Infrastructure assets that appeal to investors interested in getting long duration exposure and looking to capitalize on the opportunities this market presents

• Will the traditionally dominant first tier markets continue to attract the most investment or will we see more appetite for M&A activity in second and third tier markets?

• Do any digital assets/ regions pose conflicts with funds’ investment mandates or provide opportunities for insurance/pension funds?

• Have specialist digital funds enjoyed an advantage over generalist infrastructure funds in competing for assets?

Fan favorite discussion returns to the Proximo Stage! Five futurists unite to guide us through the next stages of innovative infrastructure and smart city updates. 

• What opportunities for collaboration across the sectors can we find in the next generation of infrastructure? 

• How does smart city infrastructure support equitable environments? 

• What markets do next generation infrastructure developers look to in financing these projects? 

With the continued problem solving of intermittency issues for renewable energy, we still look towards traditional energy sources to provide reliable and (mostly) cheap energy. How are investors and developers looking to maximize the efficiency of these assets? What future does O&G have in these portfolios?

• Major successes and active challenges in the market

• How are investors communicating the need for gas to their LPs and GPs? 

• Are gas peakers the new normal (again)? What is next for the O&G sector?

Carbon capture and sequestration has been considered additive to lowering existing emissions towards global carbon reduction goals. How does the financing for these projects stack up as non-generation assets? How big is the projected appetite in the US? Globally?

• Assessing project-on-project risk for carbon capture

• What opportunities for CCUS lie outside of enhanced oil recovery?

• DAC and retrofitting active industrial, manufacturing and power plants

Given the tremendous investment in fiber, with over half of U.S. households having access and about 25% using fiber services, there's a significant opportunity for further growth. Especially when emphasizing both increasing penetration in existing areas and expanding into underinvested regions.

• Is new data center buildout driving more fiber infrastructure? 
• Are there still opportunities in rural fiver for large cap investment groups? 
• How is the investment landscape for fiber evolving, and how are operators and investors alike approaching the consolidation wave?

• What is the future landscape of financing for stadiums in the United States? What can we learn from the global infrastructure community? 

• Case Study: recent success of new Nissan Stadium & New Highmark Stadium

• How have innovative funding measures and risk mitigation strategies been employed to handle public sector stadium financing?

• What new technologies are driving the BESS sector? Analysis of non-lithium iron batteries and implications of long duration capabilities

• Other than capital or demand, what constraints exist on growth in the energy storage space?

• Capitalizing on excitement for new storage: incentives, credits, and the quickly expanding role of storage on the grid

Have a small pick me up as we wrap up final discussions and get ready for some great campfire stories in the evening 

Please join us in the plenary room to celebrate with our North American Deal of the Year Award Winners on their triumphs! Hear from the winners on the challenges they faced in closing their project and their thoughts on what aspects of these market-moving deals forges a path for the next generation of deals

First full day of camp done! kick back and relax as you engage with familiar friends and new faces you've met throughout the day

Stretch those legs and enjoy songbirds and fresh morning air before the second day of sessions begin!

This is a Proximo led 5k along the bank of the Cumberland River 

Hope everyone is bright eyed and raring to go for our second day of the event! Enjoy a healthy breakfast as we get into our morning sessions

Where all of our sectors combined can be revealed: smarter infrastructure for the 21st Century. This panel highlights the convergence of all of the sectors, with a keen eye to future disruptors to the market.

Our session of top developers, engineers and financiers explore the role water has to play across the infrastructure and energy markets, and how central investment in water has become in all sectors. 

• How are data centers entering the world of water investment needed for cooling their centers? What approaches can be used to limit their usage? 

• Explore how water has a huge role to play in the core infrastructure world as a natural resource for building materials, as well as how climate change affects the structural efficacy of existing projects

Join our Dealmakers series; a networking meeting hub available for all attendees of Proximo 2025. Structured and pre-booked meetings mingle with more rapid fire speed dating areas for you to connect with new faces and familiar friends attending the event.

Fill up one last time and enjoy as you connect and share with fellow attendees before the end of the event!