Join the key decision-makers as they discuss opportunities & challenges in today’s Western renewable energy development arena
Don’t Miss the Pre-Summit Workshop:
Latest Trends in Renewable Energy Project Development
Hear regulators, utility executives, leading developers and financers discuss:
- The impacts of RPS and other initiatives on project development in the West
- How to obtain required renewable energy sources effectively and efficiently
- How to attract investors to get your renewable project financed and built
- How to overcome transmission interconnection and siting issues
About the Conference
Development of renewable power sources has taken on a new urgency in the West—many states have established ambitious Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) for their utilities to meet, and the implementation of California’s and the WCI’s GHG controls are likely to drastically change the patterns of power purchases across the West. Developers are eager to take advantage of these opportunities, but significant difficulties remain: individual states’ RPS differ significantly in what they consider sources of renewable energy, as well as provisions for handling the Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) and other financial incentives, and utilities have very different ways of planning and procuring renewable energy. Developers must learn how to get the inside track in the race to meet looming RPS requirements.
The Western Renewable Power Development Summit will bring together regulators, utility renewable energy policy and planning executives, developers and financiers to discuss obtaining required renewable energy sources effectively, efficiently, and quickly. They will identify where states’ RPS programs are creating opportunities for wind, solar and biomass developments, how to get sufficient renewable sources developed, financed and built, and how the thorny transmission issues involved in getting power from the typical remote site for renewables to load centers in the West are likely to be surmounted.
Participating Companies
| Ater Wynne LLP Baker & McKenzie LLP Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP California Energy Commission (invited) Chadbourne & Parke LLP Columbia Energy Partners Ecology & Environment, Inc. Edison Mission Group Evolution Markets, Inc. Fortis HSH Nordbank Iberdrola Renewables LS Power Development, LLC Luminant Energy | Montana Public Service Commission Nevada Power Company / Sierra Pacific Resources Nevada Public Utilities Commission Nord/LB New York Branch Pace Global Energy Services Padoma Wind Power, LLC / NRG Energy Inc. Portland General Electric Company Public Utility Commission of Oregon Salt River Project San Diego Gas & Electric SkyFuel Inc. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |