Agenda

• Hear CSP leaders track the industry’s critical achievements so far and take part in an open discussion on the new opportunities which will ensure accelerated CSP technology and market evolution
• Knowledge is power: Learn from the early mistakes of the CSP industry and hone your strategy, technology and project development to avoid pitfalls next time around
• Get exclusive insight into the real factors that will guarantee  CSP’s competitiveness and take us over the tipping point into renewable proliferation
• Survival of the fittest: Hear which technologies will win out in the long-term battle for CSP dominance –clear winner or a happy co-existence?

• Get an A-Z guide on predicted changes to the Spanish feed in tariff and understand how its likely scope of application affects you
• Get the low-down on the lobbying vigour behind the FiT advancements and identify the steps we can take towards a fair yet sustainable FIT
• What does reaching grid parity mean and under what conditions is it attainable? Fathom how to build a solid CSP future without untenable dependence on government support mechanisms

• Discover the opportunities that a single European energy trading market will offer to improve CSP’s competitiveness
• Understand how, why and when this trading scheme will be deployed and ensure you are fully prepared for the shift
• Hear from the grid operator about the feasibility of exporting power from North Africa, Portugal and Spain into Europe, and get the latest on how this will be realised

• Understand the real impact of worldwide nuclear disenchantment and capitalise on the resulting energy supply gap
• Uncover the unique opportunities the main CSP markets offer for project development, financing, manufacturing and plant construction and understand how their main drawbacks are being tackled (grid connectivity, infrastructure, environmental policies)
• Get an exclusive updates on projects across the world, plants that are being built or coming online
• The global retribution systems: how have they shaped their local CSP development and which show the most promise to grow a competitive industry

• Know your enemy – is PV’s attractiveness winning and how can we get the edge when it comes to LCOE and future casting of CapEx and OpEx?
• The holy grail of dispatchability – get a real-time valuation of CSP’s dispatchability, understand the advantage that it will have over PV and realise exactly what grid operators are willing to pay for it!

• Understand where strategic R&D priorities should lie to increase CSP’s competitiveness
• Push the boundaries of technical advancement – from innovative storage materials to aperture sizes, analyse the latest trends and save valuable time and money as a result
• Practical information on up-to-the-minute developments in gas turbines, dry cooling and new fluids that will  dramatically boost your bottom line and galvanise the industry in 2012

Compare and contrast CSP technologies on the ground and get ahead in the race to reduce costs: 

• Power Towers – benefit from vital lessons learnt from companies already scaling up their capacity and system size, and get an exclusive look at salt and DSG towers 
• Fresnel – discover how costs are being slashed and how companies are transforming perceptions to generate renewed investor confidence
• Trough – get the inside story on how LCOE is being reduced and how higher temperatures are being reached, today!
• Dish Stirling – Guidelines to help you exploit the latest improvements in structural materials, direct electricity generation and guaranteed motor quality

• One of a kind – Hear about the world’s first central tower technology CSP plant with salts receiver, 15 hours storage and operational temperature above 500º
• Get exclusive data on how Gemasolar is performing: compare and contrast capacity expectations and reliability forecasts with real-time results

• Understand the implications for future plants using central tower and salt storage technology – what will Gemasolar teach us about turbine power, heliostat numbers, tower height and optimum storage capacity?

• How has plant operation evolved? Take a look at the oldest and newest plants to see how approaches have advanced and apply the history lesson to your project
• Understand how to optimise your output per MW of installed capacity increasing temperature & pressure for impressive results
• Tackle the main issues with current operating plants and understand how applied experience will drastically improve future technology designs and plant performance
• Economical and technical optimisation-  top tips from daily start up to long-term maintenance of a plant

• In which applications such as desalination, cooling power and process steam could CSP successfully diversify?
• Hear the experiences of those who have capitalised on CSP’s thermal power and assess the new opportunities for your business

• Hybridisation – understand how it is so often considered the ugly duckling of CSP and where, when and why it is coming back into the limelight
• What is the future for hybridisation? Get the inside track on the critical role it will play in CSP industry development in 2011-2012
• Biomass, nuclear, gas, coal, wind? What other technologies can be effectively and efficiently hybridised with CSP, and hear from those who are doing it!
• Is there a unquestionable battle between ROI and LCOE, and can hybridisation or storage help us score the goal of grid parity faster?

• Mergers & acquisitions and IPO´s – is this the way forward for CSP? Hear about the radical partnerships being forged throughout the industry and capitalise on the new flows of investment
• Hear from prospective new lenders from international investment funds on their expectations from CSP and what they will require to invest in your project
• A new generation of investment – the who, what, where and why on whether venture capital schemes could radically change the CSP industry for the better

• Hear how the EU Commission is propelling innovation in CSP and ensuring its long-run competitiveness
• Discover in which areas of R&D and why the EC has invested and its development objectives for 2012

• How can the CSP industry inspire confidence in the financial community and dramatically reduced the perceived risk for increased deal flow?
• Which new markets are investors keeping their eyes on?
• Hear from the experience of those who have already invested in CSP on why they  had faith in the technology, and crucially, what their investment has yielded so far