09.00 Welcome Speech

09.10

Commercialization of CPV in 2010: The First 100 MW

Assess the state of the industry as commercialization moves into its second year launches into large-scale solar deployments, both distributed generation and utility scale
What will it take for the industry to reach the first 100 MW milestone, and how will industry leaders address both the thriving opportunities and the significant challenges which abound?


Mark Crowley, CEO and President, SolFocus, Inc

09.30

CPV Super Panel: The CPV Landscape - Today's Numbers and Tomorrow's Expectations

• Will the CPV industry meet the anticipated level of deployment in the next few years? Take a hard look at the numbers and find out how many CPV installations and MW are in the field and expected in the near future
• The economic crisis, the Spanish feed-in tariff cap and the drop in silicon prices have all hit CPV recently - but this industry is still moving forward. Fully understand the long term effects these changes will have on your CPV business and profitability
• What’s your long term goal for CPV? Benefit from the super panel's expert opinions and make sure you are positioning your business to be competitive and win big when this industry hits critical mass

Nancy Hartsoch CPV Consortium

Hansjoerg Lerchenmueller Concentrix
Brian Robertson Amonix

Javier Berrios Opel Solar
BB Blevins California Strategies
Cherif Youssef San Diego Gas and Electric

11.30

CPV Super Panel: The CPV Landscape - Today's Numbers and Tomorrow's Expectations

Question and Answer session

14.00

CPV Real World Results - the Latest Facts Laid Bare From International CPV Testing Institutions

• Gain a valuable insight from ISFOC based on the real world results from CPV installations to date, equipping you with knowledge of the practical challenges you will face moving outside the lab and what you can do to improve your system in the field
• Field tests vs Lab tests - take a look at the differences between the two and hear the latest revealing results from NREL and Sandia National Laboratories - exactly what you need to help you devise technical solutions to overcome testing!

Jeffery Nelson, Solar Technologies Manager, Sandia National Laboratories
Pedro Banda, General Director, ISFOC

15.00

How To Understand and Win Public Investment For CPV Projects

• The million dollar question for CPV right now - how is the stimulus going to help CPV power forward? Find out what you can do to boost your chances of application approval and seize this opportunity while most of the funding is still up for grabs
• What does the 30% tax rebate in manufacturing mean for you? Find out how the $2.3 million tax credit can save you money , strengthen your manufacturing capacity and provide a boost for your business

John Bartlett , Financial Analyst,  Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Program / New West Technologies
Edward Etzkorn, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, U.S. Department of Energy, Solar Energy Technologies Program

16.30

Strategies to Secure Private Investment for CPV in a Risk Adverse Climate

• Give your CPV project the best chance of continued financial backing by finding out where best to target your financing campaign
• Hear direct from the horse’s mouth what figures and statistics investors use to define and evaluate new investments and how to use this information to make your pitch in the right way and instill confidence in your product
• Drill deep down into the key areas covered during technical due diligence and understand all you can do to make your project as low-risk as possible

Terry Jester,  Entrepreneur in Residence,  Hudson Clean Energy Partners
Courtney McColgan, Associate,  Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Tim Woodward, Managing Director, Nth Power
Winston Fu, General Partner, US Venture Partners
Geoff Hoffheniz, Solar Team Leader / Senior Renewable Energy Consultant, SgurrEnergy Ltd

17.30

Utility Scale Solar – The Way Forward For CPV

• Find out which utilities are excited to work with CPV and get the latest on how they will be pushing forward with installation projects
• Meet their needs - understand what utilities want most from their CPV partners so that you can build long term winning relationships and position your CPV business for future success
• PPAs = guaranteed growth for your business. Discuss how to best work towards a power purchase agreement in partnership with a utility

Robert P Powers, President - AEP Utilities, American Electric Power
Obadiah Bartholomy, Project Manager, Advanced Renewables & Distributed Generation Technologies, Sacramento Municipal Utilities District
John Doyle, Infrastructure Development Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Power Enterprise

11.30

Critical Cost Reductions in CPV Systems – The Triple Junction Cell

• Get a real understanding of how cell manufacturers can work with CPV manufacturers to cut costs and how this relationship is key to improving your bottom line!
• The latest on cell efficiency and how it translates to lower cost - get your primer on the most up to date developments and decide if these will be enough to justify the initial cash investment
• Find out how cell manufacturers are preparing to scale up alongside CPV installations - so you can benefit from identifying key issues early on and ensure a smooth transition!

Hong Hou, CEO, Emcore

Harry R Rozakis , CEO,Cyrium Technologies

12.00

CPV at the Module Level – Exclusive Case studies

• Real life case studies, hear from those who have done it! Understand what they would have done better, where the great successes were and how these lessons impact plans for upcoming deployments
• Debate and discuss how projected spends and high expectations marry with the reality of costs and results on the ground. Come away with the ultimate A-Z guide for navigating unseen hurdles when preparing your installations

Adam Plesniak, Engineering Design Lead, Boeing Solar Energy Technology Program, The Boeing Company

12.30

Critical Cost Reductions in CPV Systems – The Triple Junction Cell

• Get a real understanding of how cell manufacturers can work with CPV manufacturers to cut costs and how this relationship is key to improving your bottom line!
• The latest on cell efficiency and how it translates to lower cost - get your primer on the most up to date developments and decide if these will be enough to justify the initial cash investment
• Find out how cell manufacturers are preparing to scale up alongside CPV installations - so you can benefit from identifying key issues early on and ensure a smooth transition!

13.00 CPV - Competing and Beating Other Solar Technologies

• CPV vs CSP, Thin Film and PV - understand the strengths and weaknesses of each technology so you know how to leverage CPV's main selling points and give your product a competitive edge
• Discover from experiences gathered in research and testing the key operational features that can help boost your efficiency and profitability and take your product to the next level

Robert Boehm, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Energy Research Centre,University of Nevada Las Vegas

15.00

CPV Partnership Perfection - Best Practice Tips and Strategies

Dwain Boettcher,  Cannon Power Group
Liza Pogrebnyak, Navigant Consulting

16.00

New Markets for CPV

• Hear about China ’s position and future plans in developing CPV so that you have knowledge of the changing market dynamics and can plan the long term success of your business
• Find out about the competitor landscape – knowing the competition and the supplier landscape prepares you to take immediate advantage and rapidly grow your business.

Lewis Fraas, JX Crystals

Dirk Morbitzer, Renewable Analytics

11.30

Exclusive Insight Into Expert CPV Testing Knowledge - Concentrator Performance Measurements at NREL

• Hear test results and unique analysis from NREL - the only laboratory in the United States with the capability to get primary reference cell calibrations traceable to the World Radiometric Reference
• What do the results show in efficiency versus concentration measurements of multijunction cells and outdoor performance of concentrator modules?
• Master the challenge of measuring the performance of multijunction PV devices; uncover the problems, discover the capabilities and understand what you can to do to get more accurate results

Carl Osterwald, Principal Engineer, National Renewable Energy Lab

12.00

CPV Qualification Testing Standards – Lessons Learned To Date

• Accelerate your CPV development through valuable insider knowledge from the major contributor to IEEE 1513 and IEC 62108 CPV standards
• Challenges abound in qualification testing and there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach. Benefit from the real lessons learned in the lab so you can develop systems that meet the standards right out the gate

Bill Shisler, Head of Quality, TUV Rheinland PTL

12.30

Highest Effective Use Of Trackers for CPV

• Gain a comprehensive overview of the sun tracking system field and the more significant proposals for closed-loop and open-loop tracking systems that will facilitate higher accuracy in your projects
• Benefiting from solar position estimating - hear lessons learned to date and explore how the relationship between the comparative output voltage of each solar cell and the determination of the solar position can benefit your system!

John Lee, Associate Professor, National Pingtung University, Taiwan

13.00

HCPV Developments Using Fresnel Lenses

• Find out how improvements made in HCPV modules with Fresnel lenses and III-V multijunction cells will benefit the efficiency of your CPV system
• Uncover the secrets to achieving high lens UV stability, better resistance to thermal shocks and temperatures and learn about recent progress in the development of much needed protective technology for solar cells

Valery D Rumyantsev, Chief Scientist of the Photovoltaic Lab, Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute

15.00

Thermal Management for CPV at >2000sun

• Find out about the developments made for thermal packages on a >2000 sun concentrator system so that you can replicate these strategies and make your system successful when tested at >2000 suns

Theodore G van Kessel, IBM

15.15

Maximize Your Efficiency/Cost Ratio by Boosting The Tolerance Budget of Your Fresnel System

• Discover the most vital manufacturing and assembly tips to reduce loss from your multi junction cells and capitalize on their high conversion efficiency
• Higher precision without a price hike - uncover the holy grail of CPV manufacturing by achieving a robust design with adequate tolerance levels

Juan Carlos Miñano, Associate Scientist, LPI LLC

15.30

Taking CPV From Pilot to Production

• Check your manufacturing model against the industry's best and find out how to make your systems deliver high quality, reliable output – ensuring you can satisfy the user and offer a 20 years in the sun guarantee!
• Continuous process technology - what you need to know. Discover how developments being made now will enable the manufacture of CPV concentrators with high efficiency and low cost

Robert M Pricone, CEO, 10X Technology

15.45

Boosting Optics Capability For Increased CPV Efficiency

• Non-tracking quantum dot based solar concentrators - understand the details of their design and development and find out how your system can benefit from emitted photons that can be matched at or near the band gap of the recipient solar cell
• Understand how optimizing the concentration efficiency is predicted to increase the efficiency of the cells and what the research into thermodynamic modeling will mean for your CPV project

Roland Winston, Director California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute,, University of California, Merced

16.00

Enhancing The Potential Of The CPV Cell

• Discover how to improve your CPV system using non-metamorphic technology and band gap engineering
• Take an in-depth look at the cost of ownership - lifetime value, cost to buy and cell power harvest efficiency
• Find out how cell manufacturers are building strong relationships with EPI supply houses across the globe and developing vital connections into the far East to provide a cost effective triple junction cell for your system

Tom Tibbits, Product Engineering Director, Quantasol

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