9:00 - 9:05
CONFERENCE OPENING
Chairpersons:
• Garrett Hering, PHOTON International, USA
• Sanjay Shrestha, Lazard Capital, USA
9:05 - 9:30
KEYNOTE
• Pat Wood III.
9:30 - 10:45
FUNDAMENTALS
• Michael Rogol, PHOTON Consulting, USA
»Solar growing quickly: Implications for electric power supply«
• Peter Lorenz, Quanta Renewable Energy Services, USA
• Ric O'Connell, Black & Veatch, USA
• Paul Douglas, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), USA
»Regulatory requirments to enable fast and sustainable
growth of solar«
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee-Break
11:15 - 12:45
UTILITY ACTIVITIES OF PV COMPANIES
• Steven Chan, Suntech, China
»Global utility-scale PV in the US, Europe and China«
• Howard Wenger, SunPower, USA
»Highest solar system efficiencies«
• Reyad Fezzani, BP Solar, USA
»Focus on downstream projects«
• Boris Schubert, Q-Cells, Germany
»Cell production and solar power plants«
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch
13:45 - 16:00
PV ACTIVITIES OF UTILITIES & PROJECT DEVELOPERS
Co-Moderator: Christy Herig,
Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA), USA
• Dave Rubin, PG&E, California, USA
• Eric Silagy, FPL, Florida, USA
• Mike Webster, LADWP, California, USA
• Tom Doyle, NRG Energy, New Jersey, USA
• Larry Greene, Acciona, Spain
• Arno Harris, Recurrent Energy, California, USA
• Bob Powell, Solar Power Partners, USA
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee-Break
16:30 - 18:30
TECHNICAL & ECONOMIC CHALLENGES
• Kenneth Westrick, 3Tier
»Forecasting solar irradiation – smartgrids«
• Minesh Shah, GE, USA
»Integration of renewable energy power plants – lessons learned«
• Jürgen Krehnke, SMA America, USA
»Connecting & monitoring PV power plants the right way«
• Trevor D'Olier-Lees, Standard & Poor's, USA
»Credit ratings for utility-scale PV«
• Greg Gordon, Morgan Stanley, USA
»Economic challenges for traditional electric utilities«
• Anne Kreutzmann, PHOTON Europe, Germany
»Policy challenges for PV power plants in Germany«
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