Last year's agenda offered a wide range of cutting edge topics presented by world leaders in the solar industry.
Interested in speaking at the 2012 conference? Contact Andrew Smaha, conference director, for details.
Day one - Wednesday, February 23rd
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| 12:00 Noon | General conference registration |
| 1:00 p.m. | Welcome and opening remarks from the conference chairs
David Kearney, Principal, KEARNEY & ASSOCIATES
Charlie Ricker, SVP of Business Development, BRIGHTSOURCE ENERGY |
| 1:05 p.m. | CSP Development Roundtable
Keynote panel presentation and discussion
Participants include:
Uwe Schmidt, CEO, SOLAR TRUST OF AMERICA
Kevin Smith, Chief Executive Officer, SOLARRESERVE
Albert Fong, Managing Director, ALBIASA CORPORATION
Charlie Ricker, SVP of Business Development, BRIGHTSOURCE ENERGY
Tim Hemig, Vice President, Solar Development, NRG SOLAR LLC
Moderated by the conference chairs |
| 3:00 p.m. | Networking and refreshment break |
| 3:30 p.m. | Desertec and the North Africa to Europe Solar Thermal Initiatives
Kevin Sara, Founder and Managing Director, NUR ENERGIE, UK |
| 4:00 p.m. | Recent Developments in Commercialising Solar Thermal Power in Australia
Dr. Jim Smitham, Deputy Director, Theme Leader, Energy Transformed Flagship, CSIRO, Australia
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| 4:30 p.m. | Solar Resource Assessment and Estimating Variability
Gwendalyn Bender, Head of Solar Product Development, 3TIER
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| 5:00 p.m. | Working with the Government to Create Sane CSP Policy: Case Study Israel
Igal Shany, VP of Marketing and Bus. Development, SIEMENS STE
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| 5:30 p.m. | Please join your fellow attendees and speakers for a wine and cheese reception |
Day two - Thursday, February 24th
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| 8:00 a.m. | Morning Refreshments |
| 8:45 a.m. | Remarks from the conference co-chairs
David Kearney, Principal, KEARNEY & ASSOCIATES
Charlie Ricker, SVP of Business Development, BRIGHTSOURCE ENERGY |
| 9:00 a.m. | Where will CSP plants be built? Incentives, RPS requirements, and Project Economics
Brett Prior, Senior Analyst, GREENTECH MEDIA |
| 9:30 a.m. | A Delicate Balance: Energy, Natural Resources and the Public Interest
Jim Kenna, Arizona State Director, BLM |
| 10:00 a.m. | Updates on the Department of Energy's CSP Program
Frank Wilkins, CSP Team Leader, US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Transmission (panel presentation)
Keith Casey, VP Markets and Infrastructure Development, CALIFORNIA ISO
Kristin Mayes, Chairman, ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch will be served for attendees and speakers. |
| 1:30 p.m. | Performance Characteristics and Recent Developments with Molten Salt Power Towers
Bill Gould, Chief Technical Officer, SOLARRESERVE |
| 2:00 p.m. | Dish Stirling-CSP- Technology in Transition
Cynthia Christensen, President, CORNWELL GROUP |
| 2:30 p.m. | Innovating the Way to Bankability with a Parabolic Trough
Kelly Beninga, Chief Commercial Officer, SKYFUEL |
| 3:00 p.m. | Refreshment break |
| 3:30 p.m. | CSP Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (panel presentation)
Jim Lilly, Vice President - Power, FLUOR
Clint Rosenbaum, V.P. of Engineering, LAUREN ENGINEERS AND CONSTRUCTORS
Colleen Campbell, Business Development Director, CH2M HILLJim Ivany, Program Manager - BrightSource Solar Projects,
BECHTEL POWER CORPORATION |
| 5:00 p.m. | Evening Reception |
Day three - Friday, February 25th
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| 8:00 a.m. | Refreshments |
| 8:45 a.m. | Remarks from the conference co-chairs
David Kearney, Principal, KEARNEY & ASSOCIATES
Charlie Ricker, SVP of Business Development, BRIGHTSOURCE ENERGY |
| 9:00 a.m. | Trough Technology Update
Asif Ansari, CEO and Founder, SUNTROUGH ENERGY |
| 9:30 a.m. | Thermal Storage as the Key for CSP to become Baseload Power
Jose Martin, CEO, SENER |
| 10:00 a.m. | Developments with Thermal Storage
Jake Stephens, Director, US SOLAR |
| 10:30 a.m. | Networking break |
| 11:00 a.m. | The Promise of Molten Salt: A Vision of CSP Displacing Coal
Justin Raade, CEO & Founder, HALOTECHNICS INC |
| 11:30 a.m. | Solar Hybrid Facilities
Jayesh Goyal, VP, North America Sales, AREVA SOLAR |
| 12:00 p.m. | Technical Advances in Glass and Coatings for CSP Applications
Paul Medwick, Senior Research Associate, Vacuum Coatings Group, PPG INDUSTRIES |
| 12:30 p.m. | Closing remarks and conference adjourns |
| 12:35 p.m. | Luncheon (optional) |