- 9:00am - 10:15am
- Global Solar Market Outlook
This session will draw upon all of Greentech Media and the Prometheus Institute's annual research on the solar market worldwide and present a full summary of PV and thermal demand, volume and pricing forecasts for the next five years, setting the stage for the following discussions of financing opportunities and options.
Speaker: Travis Bradford, the Prometheus Institute
- 10:15am - 10:45am
- Solar Without Limits: Overcoming Market Constraints to Unleash Distributed Solar
With declining solar PV prices, rising utility rates, and increasing demand for distributed and renewable resources, developers see a market poised for explosive growth. Successful developers will be those who can identify market constraints and overcome them with access to capital, business model innovation, control of key resources, and efficient policy utilization. Arno Harris, CEO of Recurrent Energy, will discuss his company’s view of the market opportunity and discuss the winning development strategies emerging in this promising environment.
Speaker: Arno Harris, Recurrent Energy
- 10:45am - 11:15am
- Break
- 11:15am - 11:45am
- Power Purchase Agreements for Commercial Solar Facilities
TThis presentation will review the key terms of a financeable PPA for a commercial solar facility, and highlight the issues we have encountered in representing sponsors in the financing of PPAs.
Speaker: Ed Feo, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP
- 11:45am - 12:15pm
- PPA: Managing Risk and Driving Markets for Solar
Speaker: Matt Cheney, MMA Renewable Ventures
- 12:15am - 1:00pm
- Expanding Commercial Solar Installations with the Power Purchase Agreement
This session will provide a detailed examination of the solar PPA, the most important tool in the solar market today to foster deployment of solar installations at commercial locations. Material presented will include details on the mechanics of the solar PPA, the major players in the US market, and a forecast of the impact of the PPA on the US solar market.
Speakers: Chris Beekhuis, Fat Spaniel; Ed Feo, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP; Arno Harris, Recurrent Energy and Matt Cheney, MMA Renewable Ventures
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Lunch
- 2:00pm - 3:45pm
- Financing Utility and Industrial Solar
This session will look at the issues facing developers of utility-scale solar installations. At $500 million to $1 billion per project, the challenges are significant, and both utilities and manufacturers are drawing upon new sources of capital to finance the construction of major new solar power plants.
Speakers: Bill Barnes, Cleantech America; David Kirkpatrick, enXco; Mac Irvin, SunPower Corporation and Amy Corinne Smith, Lehman Brothers
- 3:45pm - 4:15pm
- Break
- 4:15pm - 6:00pm
- Financing Residential Solar
Residential solar will remain a niche until the upfront costs are reduced or eliminated. Just as the PPA has accelerated and expanded the growth of commercial solar, purpose-built PPAs and other novel financing schemes will ultimately become the de facto method of residential solar financing. This session explores the options, the costs, and the business models around various residential solar financing options coming to market today.
Speakers: David Arfin, SolarCity; Steve Daniel, Akeena Solar; Daniel Englander, Greentech Media; Nat Kreamer, Sun Run and Mark Schmidt, SunPower Corporation
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