| Monday November 15th |
| 08:00 - 14:00 |
Speaker & Sponsor Brief Session |
| 08:00 - 14:00 |
Pre-registration for event attendees |
| 14:00 - 15:00 |
Opening Ceremony followed by Press Conference |
| 15:00 - 18:00 |
Technical workshops open for attendees |
| 18:00 onwards |
Pre-conference Networking |
Pre-Day | Day One | Day Two
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| Tuesday November 16th |
| 08:30 - 13:00 |
PLENARY SESSION: Welcome to the event |
| State of the CSP Nation |
Regulatory updates, market movements and future predictions for CSP in Spain, Europe, USA, China, India and beyond
- Breakdown of technology advances, new plants completed and new projects announcements over the last year
- The CSP ‘do or die’ list - understand the challenges the industry needs to work on to ensure continued growth; raising efficiency, reducing costs, scaling up production and more
- Asses development projections to understand the most exciting short and longer term commercial CSP opportunities
Luis Crespo, Protermosolar Valeriano Ruiz, Protermosolar |
Solar industry consolidation - opening CSP opportunities
- Understand the strengths that will enable CSP to emerge from today’s phase of solar consolidation with a long-term niche in the energy market
- Alternative commercial strategies - what you need to know to make the most of revenue streams such as industrial applications and the distributed market
- Market matchmaking - hear the differences between the main geographical markets for CSP and discover the markets most suited to your business
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Getting to grips with the realities of grid parity
- What is the best way for CSP to make the transition from tailor-made energy source to commodity?
- What will grid parity mean for industry competition? On what basis will energy contracts be won and lost?
- How important is pricing? Is time of day pricing the future of price competition?
- How will reforms in carbon valuation reflect the external realities of traditional power?
Fred Morse, Abengoa José Manuel Nieto, Acciona Ruud Dekkers, MAN Solar Millenium/Flagsol |
| Innovation vs Bankability |
Overcoming CSP’s innovation impediments
- Defining bankability - how financial institutions decide that your project is a safe bet
- Understand the role innovation plays in CSP industry development and how vital it will be to your future
- What can be done to get pioneering CSP projects the financing they deserve?
- Are there any quick wins that can be gained through innovation that may appeal to investors?
- What are the best ways to evaluate and quantify the risk of financing innovative projects?
Leading the discussion: Agencia IDEA Daniel Calderón, MASDAR Manuel Cabrerizo, Voltiq |
Risk mitigation and due diligence for innovative CSP projects
- Understand the risk mitigation and due diligence measures banks want to see before they finance innovative CSP projects
- Quantitative and qualitative risks - discover the best way to calculate risk and present your project as a robust, enticing investment
- Find out what performance guarantees and supplier choice rationale will increase the bank’s confidence in your project
Gonzalo Ruiz de Angulo Gómez, BBVA Dominik Thumfart, Deutsche Bank Antonio García Méndez, Santander Ravi Suri, Standard Chartered Bank |
CSP Standardization
- Find out what you stand to gain from standardization and when you are likely to see real world results
- Hear a discussion on the best path forward to get CSP industry standards up and running
- Lessons learned from wind - discover how standardization has improved wind projects ability to secure finance
Discussing lead by: Luis Crespo, Protermosolar |
| 13:00 - 14:45 |
Lunch |
| 14:45 - 18:45 |
TRACK ONE
Dispatchability |
TRACK TWO
Water & CSP / New Markets |
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Integrated Solar Combined Cycles (ISCC)
- Understand how ISCC work and hear the facts and figures on optimum yields and efficiency
- Discover how positioning your solar business as an ISCC could maximize your future opportunities
- Hear lessons on the challenges you can expect when developing an ISCC and what you can do to reduce delays and avoidable costs
José Manuel Millán, Abener |
CSP water issues
- Does it make sense to invest in water saving approaches? See realistic numbers on how big the cost savings could be
- Water reductions examined by region - where will these technologies reap the greatest rewards?
- Environmental best practices for water recycling and effective water management
- Is no water CSP a pipe dream of an enticing possibility and if so, what is the role of Dish Stirling?
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The benefits and challenges of hybrid CSP
- Take a look at the benefits of combining CSP with other energy sources - ensure you make the most of your equipment and investment
- Balancing traditional and renewable energy – what is the ideal mix to create a hybrid plant that makes the most of CSP?
- Could the coal industry become a critical partner and advocate for CSP? Hear why hybridization is attractive to the coal industry but creates a new set of challenges for CSP
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Dry cooling for CSP
- All the details on dry cooling: front and operational costs, parasitic load requirements, the effect of ambient climatic conditions and extreme temperatures, time-of-day pricing impacts and overall costs
- Understand water availability requirements in order for wet cooling to even be an option for your plant, and what to do when it isn’t
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Discover how hybrid systems reduce water usage but has a significant impact on cost by using an air cool condenser for 90% of the cooling capacity and 10% regular
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Power augmentation & other industrial applications
- Understand the business proposition of power augmentation and other industrial applications and how you can fit them in to your growth strategy for 2011
- Discover the requirements for industrial applications and the technologies with the most potential to win their business
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CSP seawater desalination
- Details on the new Hybrid CSP/MED plant - the pilot for a range of similar plants under the Desertec plan
- Understand how CSP plants can be adapted to supplement their electricity generation with the creation of a of water that can be used for local agriculture
- Take a look at the technical feasibility and development challenges that this hybrid CSP/MED plant faces and that will determine whether it becomes a model for future seawater desalination plants
Noam Illan, Eliat-Eliot Renewable Energy Administration |
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Molten Salt Thermal Storage
- Take advantage from an in depth assessment of the bottom line cost-opportunity of molten salt thermal storage
- Benefit from insider experiences with 7h+ and 15h storage in currently operating molten salt facilities
- Hear the technical challenges of the management of molten salts - top tips that will prevent you from making costly mistakes
Juan Ignacio Burgaleta, Torresol |
EMERGING MARKETS FOR CSP DEVELOPMENT
- Geographic markets analyzed - renewable energy regulations and current levels of CSP development
- Country by country breakdown - the local partnerships, donor institution schemes and government support available
- Discover whether distributed markets, utility scale, industrial applications and hybrid plants/combined cycles offer your business an easier first step into emerging markets
- Who pays? Hear from the World Bank, IFC and other international donors on which markets they view as most promising for CSP
Rainer Aringhoff, Desertec |
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State of the art technologies on thermal storage – Ceramics
- Gain a deep understanding of the latest developments in ceramics based thermal storage
- Discover the true extent of the cost savings promised by ceramic thermal storage systems
- See the results achieved by the ceramic prototypes built to prove the value of this new technology
Gerrit Koll, Kraftanlegen München |
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State of the art thermal storage – Graphite
- Hear about this method of receiving and storing thermal energy and delivering it on demand in the form of steam at high pressure and high temperature (up to 500°C)
- Discover why its scalability and modularity make Graphite Energy’s Solar Storage Receiver ideal and economical for different sized deployments
- Hear about the experience with Graphite Energy’s Lake Cargelligo project in Australia
Nick Bain, Graphite Energy |
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| 18:45 - 19:45 |
Networking Party |
| 19:45 onwards |
Gala diner & CSP Today Award Ceremony |
Pre-Day | Day One | Day Two
Back to top |
| Wednesday November 17th |
| 09:00 - 13:00 |
PLENARY SESSION: Future Tech updates |
The high temperature technology race
- Get clued up on recent developments in super heated steam for towers and troughs and how far they promise to ramp up turbine efficiency
- Real life case studies – understand the full effectiveness of the high temperature approach to increasing plant yield
Fernando Herranz, ACS Cobra |
Direct Steam Generation
- Discover whether DSG’s promise of a 20% reduction in electricity prices is realistic
- The technical information, capabilities and constraints that you need to know to analyze the feasibility of DSG for your plant
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Mastering modular CSP
- Easy and cheap to manufacture and install - how modular technologies promise to cut costs and boost competitiveness
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Hear a financial analysis of the modular strategy to CSP and what you can to do to maximize cost reductions
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The rise of Fresnel systems
- Have the developments in Fresnel systems over the last year changed the technological hierarchy of CSP?
- Discover the full cost reductions and the ideal environmental conditions for Fresnel plants
- Understand which markets are best for Fresnel and present the biggest opportunities for this technology
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Perfecting parabolic trough design
- Parabolic trough design evolution - from the original Luz trough to today’s latest designs
- See how today’s models differ in terms of mechanical restrictions, deformation and controllability
- Is bigger better for CSP or does the opportunity cost of smaller troughs pay for itself?
Gilbert Cohen, Eliasol Energy |
| 13:00 - 14:30 |
End of the conference & lunch |
| 14:30 - 18:30 |
Technical Workshops open to attendees |