Mega-Sessions

Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Session: MILITARY & UTILITY APPROACHES TO DELIVERING ON EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE REQUIREMENTS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Room: 23
Chair: Katharine Brass, GE Energy
Session description: A dynamic discussion on supply and demand management approaches to developing robust, cost-efficient and reliable regional and national grid infrastructures.

• Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary (Energy), Department of the Navy (invited)
• Jim Avery, Senior Vice President, Power Supply, San Diego Gas & Electric(invited)
• Scott Baker, Applied Solutions Analyst, PJM Interconnection

Session: FINANCING UTILITY SCALE PV PROJECTS – INCENTIVES AND LESSONS LEARNED
Room: 22
Chair: Dennis Loria, P.E., LORIA Emerging Energy Consulting LLC
Co-chair: Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Ph.D., Navigant Consulting

Session description: As the solar PV industry expands into utility scale projects, the industry is faced with the challenges of project financing.  Incentive programs continue to evolve in the U.S. with some influence from European and Canadian markets. The solar industry is also taking advantage of lessons from the wind industry. This session will examine some of the opportunities and challenges for project finance in the burgeoning solar market.

New State Carve-Out markets for Solar RECs Rapidly Expand PV Market Opportunities
Paul MacGregor, Nexant

Incentive Programs: Vital Catalysts for the Growth of the U.S. Solar Market
Alan King, Canadian Solar; Alison Mickey, Schwartz Communications (invited)

Project Finance Lessons-Learned – Can Solar Leverage Those from the Wind Industry?
Marie Schnitzer, AWS Truepower

Revenues from RECs
Dan Kalafatas and Jason Brown, 3Degrees (invited)

10 Keys in Raising Financing for Solar Projects
Andrew Kinross, Navigant Consulting Inc.