The Solar Finance Conference and Asset Symposium will return for its sixth year in conjunction with Intersolar NA 2016, at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco, California. Key forums will address cross-cutting PV technology, asset management and financing.
The conference and symposium is produced by the SunSpec Alliance in association with SEFA, the Solar Energy Finance Association, and Intersolar North America. Intersolar in San Francisco is North America’s most-attended solar exhibition and conference with over 18,000 attendees to the expo, and 1,500 attendees to the conferences.
The conference will include a two-day series on financing the future of smart energy and asset management. Solar assets are quickly combining with advanced inverters and other distributed energy resources (DER) to radically transform the energy business forever. Join key finance, developer, service providers, policy makers and asset management leaders to see how the “rules of the game” are changing and what it all means.
Fast-paced sessions will cover the massive opportunity afforded by the ITC extension, a detailed U.S. market overview, trends and changes to the competitive U.S. solar finance landscape, tax equity, new business models such as community solar, solar loans and different ownership models, new market entrants, asset management, securitization and the opportunity afforded by smart grid technologies. Industry expert panel discussions and presentations will engage to discuss the cost of capital, the changing role of local and national policy, the current U.S. ITC changes, the risk premium and cost for solar PV finance in today’s U.S. PV market including residential, commercial, and utility scale.
Speakers will include:
- Michael Eckhart, Global Head of Environmental Finance, Citigroup Capital Markets
- Ryan Creamer, CEO, S-Power
- Chase, Weir, Co-Chairman & CEO, Distributed Sun
- Stacey Lawson, CEO, Ygrene Energy Fund
- Paul Spencer, CEO, Clean Energy Collective
- Danny Abajian, Vice President – Project Finance, SunRun Inc.
- Thomas Plagemann, VP Capital Markets, Vivint Solar
- Ben Shih, Vice President, Moody’s Ratings
- Tom Tansy, Chairman, SunSpec Alliance
- Troy Lautenbach, Vice President Global Operations and Management, First Solar
- Jon Previtali, VP Environmental Finance, Wells Fargo
- Coy Ross, Manager – M&A Finance – Renewable Energy, Google Inc.
- Edmee Kelsey, CEO, 3Megawatt
- Etienne Lecompte, CEO, PowerHub
- Chad Sachs, CEO, Radian Generation
- Cory Honeyman, GTM Research
- Conrad Caplin, Director Risk Consulting, KPMG LLP
- Kent Williams, Vice President Asset Management, Vivint Solar
- Christopher Couture, Vice President – Asset Management, SunPower
- Michael Chang, Chief Financial Officer, Ygrene Energy Fund
- Lidija Sekaric PhD, Director of the Solar Energy Technologies, U.S Dept. of Energy
- Ram Akella, Managing Director, CentroSolar
- Mary Rottman, President, SEFA the Solar Energy Finance Association
- Nate Gabig, Director Financial & Credit Risk Management, KPMG LLP
- Danny Kennedy, MD and President CalCharge, California Clean Energy Fund
- Jason Kaminsky, Vice President, kWh Analytics
- Tim (TJ) Keating, SunSpec, Director, SunSpec Alliance
- Jason Barrett, Executive Director, Renewable Energy Investments, GAF Materials
- Rhys Marsh, Director, Energy – Corporate Finance, CIT Capital Securities LLC
- Beth Reid, CEO, Olivine Inc.
- Sara Baldwin Auck, Director – Regulatory Program, IREC
- Marc Monbouquette, Lead Analyst CPUC Energy Division, California PUC
- Cederic Brehaut, Managing Director, Solichamba Research
- Melanie Gnazzo, Partner, Chapman and Cutler LLP
- Rob Andrews, CEO, Heliolytics
- Laks Sanpath, Americas Country Manager, Alectris
- Geoff Klise, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
- Skip Dise, Product Manager, Clean Power Research
- Andy Walker – PhD, Principal Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Kevin Christy, SunEdison
PV Finance Conference July 11 overview
- Part 1: PV Finance: Smart Energy Market Transformation, Financing the Future – Growth Accelerates Keynotes Citi Group and GTM Research
- Part 2: PV Finance: Utility, C&I and Residential Panels – Investor and Developer Focus: What’s Working, What’s Not?
- Part 3: PV Finance: Investor focus, what’s in – What’s out; reducing investment friction
- Part 4: PV Finance: Financing the future, the road ahead from dumb solar to energy trader?
Solar Asset Symposium July 12 overview
The U.S. installed base of solar assets have grown beyond 25GW (SEIA Q1 2015) and much of the solar industry focus is now shifting to maximizing return and optimizing the installed base of solar assets. The SunSpec Solar Asset Symposium will provide a venue for expert keynote speakers from across the solar value chain to engage with panelists and participants to discuss trends shaping the market.
- Part 1: Solar Asset Management: Smart Energy Asset Management: From Project After-Thought to Billion Dollar Industry
- Part 2: Solar Asset Management: Success and Challenges from the Managers of Utility, C&I and Residential Fleets
- Part 3: Solar Asset management: Data Drives Asset Return – Operations Data Technology; Convergence or Collision?
- Part 4: Solar Asset management: SunShot Keynote and Advanced Topics for Grid Operations, Storage, SCADA, Security, Data Communications and O&M Standards Evolution.
Conference attendees will also receive one free pass to the Intersolar exhibition and have the opportunity attend the Intersolar Opening Ceremony and Evening Networking Reception on July 13. Click this link to visit the Intersolar website for Registration and Program Photovoltaics: Intersolar SunSpec PV Finance Conference and Solar Asset Symposium
Attendees are able to register for both days together or just one separately. The event has sold out for the last five years, so register now!