Harvard Club, New York
15 Oct 2010
San Francisco
20 Oct 2010
1. Reduce carbon emissions.
2. Reduce dependence on energy imports from areas whose instability causes price volatility and supply uncertainty.
3. Increase investment by the private sector.
4. Create regulatory policies and practices that solve these problems by aligning private profit with public good.
5. Achieve these goals under difficult political conditions.
Renewable energy and energy efficiency, in unprecedented amounts, are essential solutions to these challenges. But to make these investments happen, we need to master the technologies, design policies that convince investors that utilities and consumers will accept these technologies, create the business organizations and financial flows that will put dollars to their best use, and manage the complicated political forces that are necessary to make it all happen.
This conference will bring together regulators, investors and political actors who are at the center of these decisions. You will hear from members of national and state commissions, top experts in technology and finance, engineering experts changing the electric system's potential to accommodate variable power sources, and political actors with the best antennae, aimed at guiding political forces toward solutions.
Through multidisciplinary panels moderated by Scott Hempling, Executive Director of the U.S. National Regulatory Research Institute, leading thinkers from U.S. and India will address four main questions:
1. What are the most promising emerging technologies in alternative energy production, energy efficiency and demand management?
2. What are the frontier policy solutions that will allow these technologies to succeed -- and what obstacles do these solutions face?
3. Through what business and financial arrangements can investors best place their bets on technologies and policies?
4. What political factors will advance or impede these goals?
Get the preparation you need to enter the alternative energy markets. Every attendee will know something, but no one will know everything. This practical conference therefore will focus on both the foundations and the frontiers. You will learn:
1. the best practices of successful energy entrepreneurs
2. the technology paths with the most potential
3. the leading policies that will advance climate change solutions
4. where the money is
Not planning to invest in India? Come anyway. Our colleagues from India face the same challenges you so, and are solving them in ways that U.S. decisionmakers would be wise to study. Wind, solar, gas, shale, nuclear, sequestration; referential tariffs, REC markets, financial derivatives -- India's experts will be here. Meanwhile, the U.S. is advancing in creating regional markets which may allow renewable sources to serve customers 1000 miles away. Both countries have to work through the technology, financial, managerial and policy and political challenges to bring dollars to technology and technology to market. You'll learn how the world's two largest democracies are working their way through these problems.
Who should attend: Project developers, Technology experts, Policymakers, Financiers, Anyone interested in making renewable energy and energy efficiency a reality.
For further details contact:
Raghvendra "Raghav" Upadhya
+91 99531 97289 (India), +1 302 745 4141 (US)
raghav@ippaimail.org
REGISTER NOW AT: www.ippaiclimatechange.com
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