The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

              RENEWABLE POWER PROJECT FINANCE: THE TUTORIAL
 Sept 18-20, 2006 -- Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina -- San Diego, CA
    A Follow-Up to the SOLD OUT May session in New York! 
          Website: http://www.infocastinc.com/rppft06.html

Don’t miss out on the hottest sector of the energy market—learn how to finance wind, solar and biomass energy developments

Renewables are hot, and getting hotter by the day. But renewable projects have a variety of constraints and intrinsic economics very different from conventional thermal-energy projects. To gain maximum benefit from the boom in renewables, you need to get the best and the latest insight into the peculiarities of the financing market for renewables from the most experienced players in the field.

Get the most comprehensive training on how to finance renewable energy projects available anywhere in the world at Renewable Power Project Finance: The Tutorial. The Tutorial will feature in-depth coverage on how to structure a renewable deal to best gain access to financing, followed by case studies to explore how to surmount the hurdles that arise in real world projects.  The Spring session in New York drew a large crowd of developers, sponsors, lenders and equity capitalists eager to learn and share their experiences.

JOIN these and other renewable project finance experts:

· Airtricity, Inc.
· California Construction Authority
· Chadbourne & Parke, LLP
· Fortis Capital Corp.
· Global Energy Concepts, LLC
· Hudson United Capital
· JPMorgan Capital Corporation
· Kaye Scholer LLP
· The Kinetic Group
· Meridian Clean Fuels LLC
· Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP
· MMA Renewable Ventures
· Morgan Lewis Bockius LLP
· Navigant Consulting, Inc.
· Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
· RW Beck, Inc.
· Sterling Planet, Inc.
· Stoel Rives LLP


and LEARN:

· How to structure bankable deals specific to the renewable sector
· How to optimize the economics of renewable projects
· How to account for intermittency, location constraints, transmission interconnection issues in agreements and PPAs for wind, solar and biomass
· How to structure projects to take maximum advantages of the growing variety of carbon offsets, incentives and tax-breaks
· How to assess the technical, construction and operational risk factors specific to wind, solar, and biomass
· How to anticipate and overcome real-world hurdles—hear the lessons learned in case-studies on wind, solar and biomass projects


Don’t miss the pre-Tutorial Workshop, Fundamentals of Project Finance, where you will be taken step by step through the issues that are essential to all project financing, enabling you to come up to speed on the techniques that will be applied to the special case of renewable energy project finance on the main tutorial.


To REGISTER
or for more information, please visit http://www.infocastinc.com/rppft06.html or call Infocast at (818) 888-4444.


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