Hugh Kuhn, vice president for operations and technology at Solar Power Partners, discusses power-purchase agreements during the "Solar Power Services: How PPAs are Changing the PV Value Chain" panel. Fellow panelists Ben Cook, director of structured finance at SunPower Corp., and Jon Guice, a partner at AltaTerra, look on.
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Solaria Vice President David Hochschild, left, discusses solar policy with David Rubin, director of service analysis at PG&E, while Greentech Media President Scott Clavenna moderates the session, titled "Solar Power Policy: Public Policy That is Creating Markets for Solar Power."
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Jon Guice, a partner at AltaTerra, speaks with an attendee during a networking break at Greentech Media's Solar Finance & Forecast event in San Francisco this week.
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Robert Morgan, executive vice president and chief development officer at Ausra, compares solar and wind financing in the panel, "Financing Big Solar: Differences From the Wind Experience."
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CleanPower Finance CEO, Joesph Brakohiapa, right, networks during a break between sessions at Greentech Media's Solar Finance & Forecast event.
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Attendees at Greentech Media's Solar Finance & Forecast event get caught up in an absorbing discussion between sessions.
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Yimei Wong, a procurement manager at Trina Solar, right, catches up with another Solar Finance & Forecast attendee during a networking break.
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Matt Lugar, vice president of sales and marketing at Tioga Energy, left, discusses the "Opportunities and Challenges in Financing Solar Manufacturers" session with Rudy Scarito, a managing director at Cannaccord Adams, and Steven Adams, a partner with Goodwin Procter.
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Travis Bradford, president of the Prometheus Institute, discusses the future of the solar market during the "Solar Outlook" session. He said global solar-cell production grew 50 percent in 2007, reaching 3.7 gigawatts, as more silicon and thin-film solar came online (see Global Solar Production 'Surprisingly Strong').
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Industry insiders line up to speak with Prometheus Institute President Travis Bradford after his session, 'Solar Market Outlook - Global Supply, Demand, Pricing and Technology Trends in an Evolving Solar Market.'
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