Tremendous opportunities exist in the solar industry!

About the Conference

Solar power is at the proverbial “tipping point.” Already hot at double digit annual growth, the combination of state and federal incentives, rebates, tax breaks, combined with emerging business models such as energy service agreements all reinforce exponential market growth for solar projects. The opportunities are attracting intense excitement from entrepreneurs and from both tax-advantaged and other investors.

How do you pinpoint your niche in the solar space? It’s not a onesize fits all sector, with a cut-and-dried business model. There are different scales and types of projects, contractual structures, and financing mechanisms to contend with. Technologies, business models and market dynamics are evolving, with aggregators now bringing capital to bear and reducing legal and monitoring expenses for integrators. The success or failure of solar projects depends not only on getting units installed, but learning how to financially structure your project.

Infocast’s Solar Power Project Development Tutorial will provide an incisive map of the market opportunities, segments, models and barriers in solar, guiding you through the finance, structuring and development process in a systematic, step-by-step fashion. You will acquire the key strategic framework and know-how to play your part. Building on the track-record of Infocast’s industry-leading project development and finance Tutorials, this seminar gives you face-to-face access to top solar lawyers, consultants, developers and financiers. You can ask them your hardest questions, network with potential partners, customers, investors and suppliers, and come home fully equipped to profit from the solar boom period ahead.

Incentives, subsidies, tax breaks, creative financing, a burst of new technologies, renewable portfolio standards and incipient carbon controls have created a superheated solar project development market. This tutorial features experts in the solar industry covering:

• How solar projects of different types are developed, and when different types of risk structures, deal structures, business models and financing vehicles are appropriate
• Examples of solar project pro forma financials and contract documents
• Techniques for making the best use of tax credits in combination with subsidies and incentives, and avoiding the 10 worst mistakes
• Detailed market and PV supply/demand forecasts
• Case studies on the hottest projects in the country
• Lessons learned in utility-scale projects, including permitting and other land use issues