Renewable Portfolio Standards Conference: The Eastern US Perspective
April 12-13, 2005  Hilton Boston Back Bay - Boston, MA
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Renewable Portfolio Standards have emerged as an effective and popular tool for promoting renewable energy at the state level. To date, 16 states - many of which are in the northeast - have enacted renewable portfolio standards that require utilities to supply a certain percentage of electricity from specified renewable energy technologies. Some RPS's will specify the technology mix, while others leave it up to the market. Each state, therefore, has a choice of how to fulfill this mandate using a combination of renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, or other renewable sources combined with flexible, market-based mechanisms.

After multi-year proceedings for developing RPS policy, government and industry are now faced with implementing the new policies they created. This conference will address the key strategies concerning states in the northeastern US and how they will approach RPS compliance, verification and tracking. This conference will also cover the issues pertinent to long-term contracts, siting concerns, migratory bird flyways and strategies on integrating renewables into the existing grid system.  Register today!!!

Topics Include:

• RPS and the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Regional Carbon Policy
• NY Overview
• Strategies for Implementing and Monitoring the RPS
• RPS and Emission Markets - It's just the beginning...
• Developing Renewables in the Eastern US to Meet RPS
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Initiatives and Partnerships Dealing with Wind Energy and Electric Utilities - Recent Efforts and Future Developments
• Strategies on Integrating Renewables Into the Existing Grid System, Challenges of Integrating Intermittent Resources into Wholesale Power Markets
• Can Renewable Energy Live Up to RPS Expectations?
• Financing Renewables - What Wall Street Wants
• Using Long-Term REC Contracts to Help Developers Secure Project Financing
• Round Table - In a Perfect World...
• How is implementation working? What policies are playing out well? Which ones not so well? Which states have a handle on how all this is going to work? Which don't?
• What are the major issues on the RPS horizon?

Speakers Include:

Randall Swisher, Executive Director, AWEA
Chris MacCracken, Manager, ICF Consulting
Jeff Peterson, Program Manager for Energy Resources, NYSERDA
John Saintcross, Senior Project Manager - RPS Team Leader, Leader NYSERDA
Barry Sheingold, President, New Energy Opportunities, Inc.
John Melby, Senior Vice President, APX
William Moore, Director of Development, PPM Atlantic Renewable
Albert M. Manville, II, Wildlife Biologist, Division of Migratory Bird Management, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Aaron Breidenbaugh, Program Coordinator, Demand Response Programs, NYISO
Gary L. Hunt, President, Global Energy Advisors
Jon Larson, Managing Director, Trimaran Capital
Karlynn S. Cory, Strategy & Business Development Manager, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
Steve Sullivan, President, Power Communications (moderator)
Fran Cummings, Policy Director, Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust
Anne George, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Public Utility Central
Robert C. Grace, Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC
Alan Nogee, Director of the Clean Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Valerie Strauss, Senior Policy Analyst, Young & Sommer

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