Agenda

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• 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

• 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

• 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?

• 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?

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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?

• 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

• 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
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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• 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

• 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

• Easy and cheap to manufacture and install - how modular technologies promise to cut costs and boost competitiveness
• Hear a financial analysis of the modular strategy to CSP and what you can to do to maximize cost reductions

• 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

• 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?