SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In his 2012 State of the State speech on Jan. 18, California Governor Jerry Brown said the Golden State is on track to meet »and substantially exceed« a requirement he signed into law last year for utilities to supply 33 percent of their retail electric sales with renewable resources by 2020.
Solar is poised to play a central role. While about 2 GW of solar photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) projects are currently on line in California, more than 3 GW of large-scale solar projects are under construction and around 10 GW have requested permission to connect to the California Independent System Operator’s wholesale transmission grid.
It’s clear that solar companies worldwide have heard the news about California’s solar gold rush. But just like in the days of the original gold rush, there will be winners and losers. PHOTON – the world’s leading solar publisher – is hosting its 7th Solar Electric Utility Conference in San Francisco on Feb. 2 to explore the future of California’s solar market and opportunities for participating in it.
The conference brings together utilities that plan to rely heavily on solar to meet California’s 33-percent Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) with the regulators tasked by Gov. Brown to implement the program, as well as companies contracted to supply multiple terawatt-hours of solar power, the grid operator in charge of integrating that power into the transmission network and the financiers backing billions of dollars of projects.
The program features high-level speakers from:
- BrightSource Energy Inc. - Udi Helman, director
- California Energy Commission - Carla Peterman, commissioner
- California Independent System Operator - Jim Blatchford
- California Public Utilities Commission – Joe Como, director
- CleanPath Ventures – Matt Cheney, CEO
- Citigroup - Mike Eckhart, managing director
- First Solar - Brian Kunz, VP
- GE Energy – Brandon Owens, manager, strategic analysis
- Lazard Capital Markets – Sanjay Shrestha, managing director
- Pacific Gas & Electric – Aaron Johnson, director
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District – Sherri Eklof
- San Diego Gas & Electric – Jim Avery, SVP
- SMA America Inc. - Jürgen Krehnke, president
- Solar Electric Power Association - Julia Hamm, CEO
- Solar Energy Industries Association - Sara Birmingham, director
- SunPower Corp. - Julie Blunden, EVP
- Quanta Power Generation - Chris Laursen, CEO
REGISTRATION
To view the current program, register or find directions to the event, please go to: http://www.photon.info/photon_conf_USA2012_conf_7th_SEUC_en.photon?ActiveID=2321
CONFERENCE SERIES:
PHOTON’s 7th Solar Electric Utility Conference is part of PHOTON's Solar Terawatt-hours Conference Series USA. This year's 2-day US conference series, which includes four events (on thin films, PV safety, inverters and utility-scale solar) takes place on Feb. 1-2, 2012, at the University of California, San Francisco's Mission Bay Conference Center (www.photon.info/photon_conf_USA2012_conf_en.photon).
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Contacts
PHOTON USA Corp.
Sarah K. Weld
phone +1.415.6094116.
sarah.weld@photon-magazine.com
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