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Moderator:

Seth D. Hilton, Member, STOEL RIVES LLP

Seth Hilton is a principal in the Energy and Telecommunications Practice Group at Stoel Rives. He focuses his practice on energy regulation and litigation, and represents clients in state and federal court and before a variety of regulatory agencies in California, including the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission.

Panelists:

Pam Doughman, Energy Specialist,
Renewable Energy Office, CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION

Pam Doughman, Ph.D., leads Renewable Energy Office support of policy development for the Integrated Energy Policy Report, climate change policy, and the Renewables Portfolio Standard.

Paul Douglas, Energy Division,
CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

Paul Douglas is the Manager of Renewable Procurement and Resource Planning here at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).

Paul is responsible for the design and implementation of California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) program, the largest program of its kind in the nation. Since the program’s inception, Paul has taken the lead on a wide range of RPS implementation challenges, ranging from feed-in tariffs and bid evaluation methodology to renewable energy credit (RECs) trading and procurement guidelines.

Paul also directs the CPUC’s efforts on long-term resource planning issues associated with renewables. He is currently overseeing the assessment of California’s goal to achieve 33% renewables by 2020.

Arno Harris, CEO, RECURRENT ENERGY, INC.

Arno Harris is CEO of Recurrent Energy, a distributed power company and leading provider of solar electricity to utilities, government, and commercial customers. Recurrent Energy is reinventing the business of distributed generation—using proven solar technology to meet rising energy demand with clean power plants located right where they’re needed most. Prior to Recurrent Energy, Arno was general manager of EI Solutions, serving large-scale commercial and government solar customers. EI Solutions was formed when Arno sold his pioneering solar business, Prevalent Power, to Energy Innovations in 2005. Arno’s previous experience includes founder and leadership roles for startups that include WineShopper.com, RedEnvelope (NASDAQ:REDE), and Novo Media Group. His background combines marketing, sales and consulting with experience serving such clients as Berlex, Toyota Motor Sales USA, GlaxoWellcome, MCI, Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Nikon Precision, IKEA International and NBC Digital Publishing. Arno writes about solar and renewable energy on his blog Clean Energy Future.

Valerie Winn, Manager, Renewable Energy
Policy & Strategy Department, PACIFIC GAS & ENERGY

Valerie Winn is PG&E's Manager for Renewable Energy Policy and Planning. She joined PG&E twelve years ago and has worked on a variety of regulatory issues including long-term electric procurement planning, qualifying facilities, renewables, nuclear decommissioning, industry restructuring, and cost recovery issues. Prior to joining PG&E, she worked as a consultant at the World Bank and and as an economic consultant.