Title of Event:

Empire State Feed-In Tariff: A Policy to Make New York a Clean Energy Capital.

Date / Date range:

February 4, 2010

Location name:

The Cooper Union's Great Hall

Location (City, State, Country):

41 Cooper Square, New York City, NY, USA

Time (example: 6:30-8:00 PM):

6:30-9:30

Description of Event:

PROGRAM Opening Remarks 6:30–7:00 Featuring the Sponsors of Current State Feed-In Tariff Legislation - New York State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi - New York State Senator Antoine Thompson Panel Discussion: 7:00–8:30 Panelists: - John Burges, Managing Director, Knight Capital Markets (New York, NY) - Deborah Doncaster, Executive Director, Community Power Fund (Ontario, CA) - Nils Mellquist, Senior Research Analyst, Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors (New York, NY) - Wilson Rickerson, President, Rickerson Energy Strategies (Boston, MA) - Moderated by Christopher Neidl, Advocacy Coordinator, Solar One Networking Reception: 8:30–9:30 ABOUT The world’s most advanced and profitable clean energy markets didn’t come to lead by accident. Rather, strategic commitments to long-term financial incentive policies that are designed to drive investment and rapidly scale viable, clean technologies directly account for their dominance. The feed-in tariff is the policy approach that has proven to be the most effective in stimulating clean power adoption, generating jobs and driving down costs. Widely adopted in Europe and now emerging in force across North America, feed-in tariffs enable clean power generators of various sizes, deploying a variety of technologies, to sell their power over the long–term at rates that guarantee attractive and predictable returns. In this event members of the New York State Legislature will join a prestigious panel of policy experts, financiers and clean energy investors from throughout North America to illustrate the case for a local Empire State Feed-In Tariff. The policy’s implications for investment and finance will form the core of the discussion, and recently introduced feed-in tariff legislation will be analyzed in reference to case studies from around the globe. . . . RSVP . . . Cost:$10 FOR NET IMPACT MEMBERS and students (with valid ID), $30 for NYSES members, $40 for non-members. NET IMPACT MEMBERS CAN RESERVE THEIR SPOT TODAY BY EMAILING CHRISTOPHER NEIDL, neidl@solar1.org.

Cost:

$10 for Net Impact Members

Contact:

Chris Neidl

Contact Phone Number:

917 660 2609

Event Website:

http://nyses.org/Events/20100204-EmpireStateFeed-InTariff