Full Agenda

Registration

Chairmans welcoming and opening speech

Steve Horne, CTO, Solfocus

A bright future for CPV

• Evaluate and analyze the successes of multi-junction cells in revolutionizing the CPV industry
• Discover the potential for growth in the CPV industry in the immediate and long term future
• Understand the challenges that the industry still needs to overcome in order to be successful

Sarah Kurtz, Principal Scientist, NREL

Market realities for CPV

• A sober talk about the realistic possibilities of CPV with the best minds in the business!
• What does this technology actually cost? How realistic are PPA promises and how can you mitigate risk if CPV's value is ambiguous?
• Hear what CPV companies are really going to be able to sell power for and what should the industry be aiming to offer to utilities
• CPV throughout the US – are certain markets oversaturated and where are the most promising opportunities in the US?

Moderator: Steve Horne, CTO, Solfocus

Nancy Hartsoch, CPV Consortium
Rob Lamkin, CEO, CoolEarthSolar
Ricard Pardell, Director General, Sol3g
Bob Cart, CEO, Greenvolts
Vicente Díaz Luque, Concentration Systems Manager, Isofoton

CPV Performance and Reliability

• Evaluate and analyze a performance assessment and evaluation of an actual CPV system
• Hear an analysis of CPV system performance data and gain an understanding of both it's yield potential and losses
• Learn how this data can give us an insight into CPV's long term stability as well as a need for adoption of guidelines for plant monitoring and operation surveillance

Steve Horne, CTO, Solfocus

Coffee Break

ISFOC CPV technology update

• Exclusive first results of ISFOC's current installations and learn about their exciting new projects and developments
• Hear the experiences and lessons learned on the first phase of constitution of ISFOC, 1.7 MW were received from Solfocus and Inspira, Isofotón and Concentrix
• Case study experience on the lessons learned and pitfalls to avoid from projects with Solfocus and Inspira, Isofotón and Concentrix (1.7MW)

Pedro Banda, Director, ISFOC

Panel session: Improving efficiency - lowering the overall cost of installing solar energy

• Hear the very latest on the CPV efficiency breakthroughs and what to expect in the years to come
• Hear the latest cell and module innovations and learn new techniques to drive down costs and up efficiencies in cell and module technologies
• Keeping your cells cool ensures long term stability - advanced cooling designs and techniques that extend the life of your CPV cells

Moderator: Sarah kurtz, Principal Scientist, NREL

Dr. John Iannelli, CTO, Emcore
Simon Fafard Founder and CTO Cyrium Technologies Inc
Dr. Tom Tibbits, Product Engineering Director, QuantaSol Ltd

Lunch – Roundtable discussions

Utility-scale CPV solutions: An in-depth understanding

• Understand the superior benefits CPV technology holds over PV and Thin-film technologies
• Understand what solar grid parity really means and how it is effected by the time of day
• Gain an exclusive look into GV1, the world's largest non-silicon CPV power plant

Bob Cart, CEO, Greenvolts

Utilities – working together effectively for a brighter future

• Hear from the utilities themselves on what the most important issues for them are when selecting a renewable energy source such as CPV
• Learn how CPV stacks up against other renewable energy sources and how can you improve your potential and value?
• Working together and making a difference - understand what you can do to help improve the overall prospect of CPV for utility-scale power

Jeffrey Reed, Director of Strategic Devlopment, San Diego Gas and Electric

Maximise concentration through tracking efficiency

• Take away top tips on the efficient tracking systems that will slash costs and significantly improve energy output for your plant
• Identify the most accurate and reliable sun tracking systems to ensure you harness yield results up to a hundredth of a degree
• In-depth insight precise and reliable trackers which will help your project achieve maximum concentration and minimum maintenance costs

Carlos Garcia Garcia, Sales Manager, Titan Trackers

Coffee break

Advanced optics for a successful CPV future

• Learn about exciting new optical designs that provide high concentration (>800), high tolerance (>+/-1.5 deg) and high efficiency (>80%) and are critical for cost-effective CPV systems.
• Discover new optical concepts that are able to achieve all these features and more!
• Hear a comparison with 2-axis-tracking flat modules (the present competitor of CPV)

Juan Carlos Minano, Senior Scientist, LPI

Siting for CPV projects: Avoiding the devil in the details

• Draw upon lessons learned from the wind industry, explore what it takes to find the right site for a CPV plant
• Identify expensive and fatal flaws in the origination phase and learn how to avoid them
• Get the hottest information on topics including county / state permitting, water issues, military restrictions and transmission

Mark Tholke, Regional project development manager , Enxco

Concentrix's highly efficient CPV power plants in the field

• Discover Concentrix's most recent developments in efficiency and performance
• Understand why efficiency and reliability are key for lower solar electricity cost
• Evaluate the annual electricity output of Concentrix's CPV systems

Hansjörg Lerchenmüller, Chief Executive Officer, Concentrix Solar GmbH

Networking drinks party + Speed networking

Registration

Arima Eco - Harnessing the power of CPV

• Hear from ArimaEco on the latest updates and developments from their 300mw CPV power plant as awarded by ISFOC in 2007
• Discover the superior benefits of CPV over traditional flat panel PV and why concentrated power will significantly increase your profits
• Scaling up your existing PV operations to a CPV plant – Hear how you can quickly, and cost effectively, build a CPV business within your existing set-up

Yilang Yang, R&D Dept. Section Manager, Arima EcoEnergy Technologies Corporation

Comparison of Economics for Planar PV & Concentrated Solar PV

• Hear how you can harness more energy from the Sun using CPV than traditional PV technology - and at a lower cost
• Compare the cost efficient results of CPV technology and see why you should be installing CPV technology right away!
• Analyze the results of actual measurements from the field to learn how CPV can super charge your output at minimum budget

Lewis Fraas, President, JX Crystals Inc

Overview of financing and investment models for large scale solar

• Step by step guide to the financial process you need to be aware of to be successful
• An insight into the first round of investment – acquiring angel support and venture capital
• Second round investment through VC, institutional investment – what is right for you?
• Understand the difference between partnership, project finance, IPO , sale and merger and determine your longterm target and decide what is the right strategy for you

Moderator: Michael Bernier, Tax credit investment advisory services, Ernst & Young

                               
Mit Buchanan, Managing Director, JP Morgan capital corporation        
Nathan Campbell, Vice President, Macquaire Cpital Markets

Coffee Break

Focusing on the optics

• Learn the fundamental relationships that connect concentration, angular acceptance and angular irradiance on the solar cell.
• Hear how you can have a high concentration gain and still keep a robust and tolerant concentrator
• Learn how to radically reduce system costs through a simple and clever optical design that does not jeopardize your system performance
• Hear how to successfully master: Uniform illumination, high concentration, high acceptance angle - all in a single simple design

Roland Winston, Presidential Chair Professor, University of California, Merced

Maximize output with low concentration CPV

• Understand how low concentration systems work, how they compare to traditional flat panels and how you'll achieve a reduction in cost of output as a result
• Evaluate and analyze the Geographic and climate boundaries to low concentration CPV
• Understand the installation parameters and variations with standard c-Si flat plate technology

Moderator: Robert R. Walters, Vice President of Marketing, Entech Solar, Inc.

Joe Lichy, VP of Engineering, SV Solar
Lewis Fraas, President, JX Crystals Inc
Peter Le Lievre, CEO, Chromasun inc

Lunch Break

Solar CPV – a great opportunity for traditional manufacturing industry

• Hear how a focus on reducing fully-installed cost rather than just hardware cost leads to a radically different system design for CPV
• Understand the benefits of using proven cell technologies in medium concentration systems to reduce risk, reduce cost and open up a wealth of established manufacturing capability
• Learn how one company has utilized the experience and capability of traditional manufacturing industry to improve quality and speed-to-market

Clive Weatherby, CTO, Whitfield Solar

Spectral matching and material tuning using quantum well solar cells

• Hear how CPV cells tailored for specific projects will use quantum wells to engineer the sub-cell bandgaps for maximum kWh yield
• Understand why Quantum Well solar cells have ideal behaviour under concentration, meaning available efficiency is maximised
• Learn how using radiative coupling, Quantum Well solar cells reduce the spectral sensitivity of the cells, enhancing power yield in changing atmospheric conditions.

Dr. Tom Tibbits, Product Engineering Director, QuantaSol Ltd

A regulatory update

Update on California state law and policy as it relates to CPV. Much has happened in this field over the last year and there are many potentially important policy developments in the pipeline that may impact CPV projects including:

• State regulatory update (SB 1036, SB 411, AB 32 Scoping Plan)
• Ballot initiatives (Prop 7, the Solar & Clean Energy Act of 2008)

Tam Hunt, Director General, Community Environmental Council

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