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. You can learn more about our awards here

Deal submissions are open until December 13th 2024, 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

Our panel of multinationals expounds on their plans for abatement and path to a net zero emissions future. 

• What current practices are you seeing the most significant uptick in abatement? What technologies are most useful? 

• How are you working with investors to report your findings?

Arguably the hottest topic both in data center infrastructure as well as in the power sector; how are we powering it? The race is on as operators work to meet the demands of their hyperscale clients without disrupting activity on the local grid system. Our speakers guide us through: 

• How is ESG factoring into operators evaluations of power sources? Is nuclear a red herring only available as an option to hyperscale clients?

• Best practices in communicating with utilities

• How serious is the potential for an AI driven power bubble, where rapid investments might lead to overcapacity or inefficiencies?

• New technologies and strategies improving baseline efficiencies for Data Centers

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. Join top DOTs as they walk through their upcoming pipeline for new projects within their states. ** INVITE ONLY** Please reach out to maura.murphy@exilegroup.com if you are interested to attend.

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 

• 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?

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

Industrial and agricultural sectors are major emitters of CO2 and methane globally. This panel explores new technologies and financing structures that allow investors to capitalize on decarbonizing these sectors to help create a cleaner, more efficient energy future.

• What asset classes provide the most direct path to maximize returns towards decarbonization? 

• What financial structures best lend themselves to these types of deals? 

• What new technologies are proving to be the most promising for new investment and development?

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?

• Are alternative procurement styles working? Or are more traditional agreements still preferred for the lifespan of most assets? 

• Is the current infrastructure landscape in the US leaning more towards smaller projects, or is the industry ripe for a new crop of mega projects? What have been the main drivers? 

• Best practices in transparency and accountability for new contracts

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?

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? 

• 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 

With so many hyperscaler clients turning to nuclear to provide their base load of power needed, it seems the conversation around nuclear is back on the table.  SMRs in particular have had a new wave of interest, and potential government support. This workshop explores: 

- Overview of their advantages over traditional nuclear reactors, such as quicker build times and lower costs

-AI appetites driving interest & other applications, as well as implications for future power buildout

- feasibility for new projects and financial structures best suited to support

- What players have been best at seizing the opportunities in the market? Evaluation of lessons learned and strategies deployed

- 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 player, or is the risk curve still more geared towards high capital and high risk markets?





An industry going through massive transformation due to consumer expectations and new technologies affecting demand, Logistics and Supply Chain finance is in need of capital to put to work and creative minds to solve the challenges in the market. This panel explores

• Evaluating current supply chain practices for inefficiencies 

• Rise of US Manufacturing - identifying opportunities and areas primed for investment

• Port infrastructure, labor shortages, and how to best mitigate associated risks

The need for further buildout of new transmission across the US is an acute pain point for developers, IPPs, utilities and ratepayers alike. While this issue has been identified, how is the industry going about addressing it? 

• Who pays? Replacing outdated transmission is necessary but not cheap- is it on the developer or offloaded to the end consumer? 

• Building out new transmission is also a challenge; what major roadblocks are developers facing? 

• Are current policies and plans for new buildout efficient? Where are the most pertinent inefficiencies?

TBA - Stay tuned!! 

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!