West Coast Geothermal Finance and Development Workshop
Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Embarcadero Center
May 10th, 2007
| 7:30
am |
Registration Open - Coffee & Tea |
| 8:30
am |
Welcome/Opening Remarks
Karl Gawell, GEA, Morning Moderator |
| 8:45 am |
Renewable Energy and The Direction of the New Congress
Melanie Nutter, Deputy District Director, Rep. Nancy Pelosi
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| 8:50 am |
California ’s Commitment to Climate Change
Joe Nation, Former California Assemblyman, Principal Co-Author of AB 32 |
| 9:10 am |
State and Federal Policies Towards Geothermal and Other Renewable Energy Technologies
Rich Halvey, Program Manager, Western Governors Association
John Galloway, Senior Analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists
Jonathan Weisgall, Vice President, MidAmerican Energy Holdings Corp (CalEnergy)
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| 10:00 |
Break |
| 10:15 |
The Challenges and Opportunities – Views of Geothermal Power Developers
Panel I:
Fausto Batini, Director, Geothermal Development, Enel North America, Inc.
Rick Thomas, VP Development, Calpine Corporation
Daniel Kunz, CEO, U.S. Geothermal
Panel II:
Asgeir Margeirsson, CEO, Geysir Green Energy
Halley Dickey, UTC Power
Brent M. Cook, Raser Technologies |
| 11:30 |
Point-Counterpoint – The Two Sides of a Power Purchase Agreement
Dan Schochet, Vice President, ORMAT
Tom Fair, Executive, Renewable Energy, Sierra Pacific Resources
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| 12:15 pm |
-- Lunch served-- |
| Curt Robinson,
Executive Director, Geothermal Resources Council
(GRC), Afternoon Moderator |
| 1 pm |
Glitnir Presentation
Magnus Bjarnason, Executive Vice President, Glitnir Bank
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| 1:30 pm |
Update on West-wide Porgrammatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) and other Federal Activities
Jack Peterson, National Project Manager for the BLM and Forest Service Geothermal Initiatives |
| 1:45 pm |
Finding Geothermal Resources – the Key Questions
Susan Petty, Black Mountain Technology
Paul Brophy, President, EGS Inc
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| 2:25 pm |
Geothermal Due Diligence
Subir Sanyal, President, GeothermEx
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| 2:45 pm |
Break
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| 2:55 pm |
Green Marketing, Certification, and Other Approaches to Supporting Renewable Energy Projects
Dan Lieberman, Green-e Program Manager, Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) |
| 3:15 pm |
Financing, Incentives, and Other Approaches to Influencing the Bottom Line
Margret Rueger, Babcock & Brown
Bob Banack, Dundee Securities
Elizabeth C. Battocletti, Bob Lawrence and Associates and Geothermal Finance Working Group
Gary Barnum, Stoel Rives LLP
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| 4:15 pm |
Break |
| 4:30 pm |
Running the Legal, Regulatory and Other Hurdles Facing New Projects
John Pierce, Partner, Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Project Finance, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati LLP
Kevin McSpadden, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLC
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| 5:00 pm |
Summation and Closing Remarks |
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