Events

Green Business Summit II - Assessing the Risks and Opportunities in Renewable Energy in the New Economic Climate

October 17, 2008

AGENDA

8:00 AM	Registration, Breakfast
9:00 AM	Opening Remarks: Governor George Pataki
9:15 AM	Panel I: How Does the Upheaval in the Financial Markets Affect the Development of U.S. Renewable Energy Projects?
	Moderator: Todd Alexander, Chadbourne & Parke
	Panelists: Rahul Advani, Vice President, Energy Capital Partners Steve Cheng, Managing Director, Credit Suisse Brian Goldstein, Managing Director, BNP Paribas Securities Paul Ho, Principal, Hudson Clean Energy Partners
10: 15 AM	Break
10: 30 AM	Keith Martin: Chadbourne’s Experience: How the Financial Meltdown is Affecting Financing for Renewable Energy Projects
	Presentation & Discussion:  Keith Martin, Chadbourne & Parke
11:00 AM	Panel II: Overcoming the Key Impediments to Expanding Renewable Energy Development
	Moderator: John Cahill, Chadbourne & Parke
	Panelists:  Garry A. Brown, Chairman, New York State Public Service Commission  Robert Gramlich, Policy Director, American Wind Energy Association  Michael Heyeck, Senior Vice President-Transmission, American Electric Power Philip D. Moeller, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Edward M. Stern, President and CEO, Neptune Regional Transmission System, LLC
12:00 PM	Lunch
	Keynote Speaker: T. Boone Pickens, introduced by Governor Pataki
	T. Boone Pickens, founder and chairman, BP Capital Management, is principally responsible for the formulation of the energy futures investment strategy of the BP Capital Commodity Fund and the BP Capital Equity Fund. BP Capital manages one of the nation’s most successful energy-oriented investment funds. Mr. Pickens is also the architect of the Pickens Plan to reduce foreign oil dependence by harnessing domestic energy alternatives and developing even greater new technologies.

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Please note:  there is no cost to attend this event.