Wind Power Development Tutorial

July 28-30, 2008 | Sheraton Gateway SFO | San Francisco, CA

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Wind Power is growing 30% annually across North America. Do you have the insider’s know-how needed to bring a wind farm successfully to market?

    

Don’t miss the Pre-Tutorial Forum:

Regional Transmission Planning and the Interconnection Bottleneck

About the Conference

Wind power continues on its exponential growth curve unabated. The field, however, is ever more crowded, with highly capitalized and highly experienced players. Is your firm sufficiently nimble and skilled enough to carve a niche in this market? Is your pro forma solid enough to win financing from stressed and reluctant lenders? Is your place in the backlogged interconnection queue secure? And are you confident your project is structured for optimal valuation and exit strategy?

Infocast’s third offering in its series of popular Wind Power Development Tutorials now comes to San Francisco to once again offer utilities, munis, coops, land owners and independent developers the essential tools and strategic insights for success.

The Tutorial will help existing developers bulletproof their plans and projects, while investors, partners and financiers will gain insight into the inner dynamics of wind business models so they can sharpen their due diligence, underwriting and valuation analysis.

  • Understand business models, RECS, RPS and hedging strategies in case the Production Tax Credit is not renewed
  • Learn the fundamentals that will help you validate and strengthen your wind farm development and financing plans
  • Understand the tactics and nuances of negotiating turbine financing and contracts
  • Learn how pro formas work for a typical 100mw project Position projects for long-term success as an owner and get the maximum valuation of your project in a merger or buyout

Participating Companies

Alyra Renewable Energy Finance, LLC

Baker Botts LLP

The Brattle Group

CAISO

California Public Utilities Commission (invited)

Chadbourne & Parke LLP

CommerzBank AG

Ecology & Environment, Inc.

Exergy Development Group of Idaho

Global Energy Concepts, LLC

Holland & Hart LLP

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP

Midwest ISO

Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.

NaturEner

NYISO

Oak Creek Energy Systems, Inc

Ortech Consulting, Inc.

Padoma Wind Power, LLC / NRG Energy, Inc.

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP

Shir Consultants, Inc.

Salt River Project / Southwest Area Transmission

Union Bank of California