Program Chairperson:
John M. Eber, Managing Director-Energy Investments, JPMorgan Capital Corporation
AWEA Financial Analyst Day Optional – Added Value
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
(New this year, AWEA Financial Analyst Day
on October 13th. Click here to see the agenda.)
Green Investment Kick-Off Reception
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Open to all attendees
Immediately following the program for one hour
7:00 am
Registration Opens & Continental Breakfast
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8:00 am - 8:30 am
AWEA Executive Report: The State of the Wind Industry
Denise A. Bode, Chief Executive Officer, American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
John M. Eber, Managing Director-Energy Investments, JPMorgan Capital Corporation
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
“A Whole New World”: Financing Experience as a Large
Project Developer
The largest project developers in the U.S. will discuss how project finance has transformed under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) and
what their specific experience has been using the Treasury grant program and Loan guarantees to finance new wind projects.
Moderator: Ed F. Feo, Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
David Berry, Finance Director, Horizon Wind Energy
Jim Murphy, Executive Vice President , CFO & COO, Invenergy, LLC
Susan Nickey, Chief Financial Officer, Acciona Wind Energy USA, LLC
David Willis, Senior VP Finance, E.ON Climate & Renewables North America Inc.
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10:00 am - 10:30 am
Break
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10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Financing Experience in a New World as a Mid-sized Project Developer
Major mid-sized project developers in the U.S. will discuss how project finance
has transformed under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)
and how their experience using the Treasury grant program and Loan
guarantees to finance new wind projects may differ from large developers.
Moderator: Martin Pasqualini, Managing Director, CP Energy Group, LLC
Randolph Mann, Vice President, Wind Development, Edison Mission Energy (EME)
Ciaran O'Brien, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer,
Wind Capital Group
Mike Storch, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Development, Enel North America, Inc.
Karen Derenthal Schmidt, Eurus Energy America Corporation
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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
“Show Us the Money”: Insights from Active Equity and Debt Providers
Both equity and debt providers currently active in the wind market to discuss
their insights to using the ARRA programs and share the range of approaches
to financing in the environment of new programs.
Moderator: Keith Martin, Partner, Project Finance Group, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Yale C. Henderson, Vice President, JPMorgan Capital Corporation
Lance B. Markowitz, Senior Vice President, Union Bank of California - UBOC
Gisela Kroess, Director, Global Structured and Project Finance, UniCredit-HVB
Christopher Stolarski, Senior Vice President, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
Timothy Howell, Managing Director, Renewable Energy, GE Energy Financial Services
John C. S. Anderson, Senior Managing Director, Head of Power & Infrastructure, John Hancock Financial Services
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3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Closing Session
John M. Eber, Managing Director-Energy Investments, JPMorgan Capital Corporation
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3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Networking Closing Break
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