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Sponsored By:SOLAR ENERGY: A Critical Component of Meeting the Clean Energy Challenge

The GW Solar Institute | 3RD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

April 26, 2011 • 8:30am–6:00pm Jack Morton Auditorium 805 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC ENERGY

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF

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Letter from the Director

Dear Colleagues,

Since we last met in 2010, the political environment has shifted substantially. With a new Republican majority in the

House, a divided Senate, and austere State governments, the public financing outlook for renewable energy looks

less favorable. Nevertheless, solar costs are dropping and the public need for clean, renewable energy remains.

With this in mind, President Obama issued a challenge to Congress in his 2011 State of the Union: “Now, clean

energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean energy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for what

they’re selling. So tonight, I challenge you to join me in setting a new goal: by 2035, 80% of America’s electricity will

come from clean energy sources. Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas.

To meet this goal, we will need them all—and I urge Democrats and Republicans to work together to make it happen.”

Today, we look at the solar component of that vision and ask ourselves, can solar make it happen? What are the barriers?

Can we really build a solid energy infrastructure with a resource that fluctuates with every passing cloud? That costs

much more than conventional electricity? Today, we will face these questions squarely.

Thanks for joining us,

Ken Zweibel

Director, GW Solar Institute

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Welcome 8:30–8:45amSteven Lerman, Provost, The George Washington University

Peg Barratt Dean, GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Ken Zweibel Director, GW Solar Institute

Keynote: “SunShot, the Apollo Mission of Our Time” 8:45–9:15amMinh Le, Chief Engineer, DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program

Leading Energy Companies Taking Up the Clean Energy Challenge 9:15–10:30amPanel Discussion

Moderator: Randall Packer, Associate Dean, The George Washington University

James Torpey Director Market Development, SunPower

Kathy Weiss VP Federal Government Affairs, First Solar

Thomas Georgis VP Development, Solar Reserve

Simon Watson Director, Utility Market Strategy, SunEdison

Break 10:30–10:45am

Private Sector Taking Up the Clean Energy Challenge 10:45–11:50amSession Chair: Jerry Bloom, Partner, Winston & Strawn, LLP

Scott Sklar President, The Stella Group

Andrew Murphy EVP & President of the Northeast Region, NRG Energy, Inc.

Elizabeth Singleton Global Business Development Leader, Energy & Climate Change, The Dow Chemical Company

Symposium Agenda

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Lunch 12:00–1:30pm“China: Surging Ahead in Renewable Energy” (Marvin Center–Grand Ballroom)

Doug Guthrie, Dean, GW School of Business

What’s Next 1:30–2:30pmSession Chair, Jack Hurley, Siemens USA

James Sites, “PV’s Leading Edge,” Colorado State

Clemens Heske, “Hard Problems Improving the Best PV,” UNLV

Stuart Licht, “Solar Thermal Hybrids,” The George Washington University

Tackling the Variability Challenge 2:30–3:30pm Robert Gibson, “Utility Perspective on Solar Energy,” Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA)

Carl Lenox, “Connecting Variable Solar to the Grid,” SunPower

Chris Cook, “Regulatory and Economic Issues of Grid Integration,” Keyes & Fox, LLP

Break 3:30–3:45pm

Solar: Distributed or Central? Distant or Close By? 3:45–4:45pm Bill Powers, “California and Distributed PV,” Powers Engineering

Steve Burns, “Transmission for the Solar Grand Plan,” The George Washington University

Richard Perez, “Grid parity – A Value Based Perspective,” SUNY Albany

Open Questions 4:45–5:00pmKen Zweibel, Director, GW Solar Institute

Reception 5:00–6:00pmAll welcome (Jack Morton 2nd Floor Lobby)

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Peg BarrattDr. Peg Barratt is Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at the George Washington University, the oldest college at the University. Departments and programs are supported in the arts and humanities; social and behavioral sciences; and natural, mathematical and biomedical sciences. Dr. Barratt served as Deputy Director of the Clinical Research Policy

Analysis and Coordination Program at NIH (CRpac) until 2006, and before that as Division Director for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences and Program Director for Developmental and Learning Sciences/Children’s Research Initiative at the National Science Foundation.

Prior to her service at NSF, Dr. Barratt directed the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families at Michigan State University and was a member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin--Madison for 19 years in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and served as department chair. She received the University of Wisconsin– Madison Distinguished Teaching Award in 1998.

She received a doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from Michigan State University. She also holds a Master of Philosophy in psychology from The George Washington University.

Jerry BloomAs Department Chair of Winston & Strawn LLP’s Energy, Project Development and Finance Practice Group, Jerry Bloom focuses his practice on the development, finance, and operation of domestic and international independent energy projects, electric-industry restructuring and privatization, and mergers and acquisitions. His expertise in the development and financing

of energy infrastructure projects includes renewable, combined heat and power (CHP), and fossil-fuel generation in the United States and abroad. He is active in the development of wind, biomass, and small and utility scale photovoltaic and thermal solar facilities.

Jerry Bloom has extensive experience negotiating off-take and power purchase agreements, engineering, procurement, and construction contracts, operation and maintenance agreements, fuel supply agreements, syndication and agency agreements and he appears regularly before various local, state, and federal regulatory bodies with jurisdiction over energy infrastructure projects.

Mr. Bloom is leading efforts in the private and public sectors on the formation and execution of Sustainability, CleanTech strategies, which will be crucial in making energy efficiency and renewable energy development a key factor in achieving energy independence, resource preservation and greenhouse gas reductions.

Degrees: B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Counseling from The George Washington University,1974 and 1976, respectively; JD from University of Miami School of Law, 1980.

Speaker Bios

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James Torpey Steve BurnsMr. Burns has nearly 15 years of experience in the electric power industry, specializing in renewable energy asset development; power sector commercial and technical due diligence; and energy efficiency and green power strategies. His experience spans the Americas, Europe, and the Near East, where he has been involved in over

$1 billion in generation development. He currently serves as a Senior Energy Advisor for the United States Agency for International Development where his focus is regulatory reform to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy development in transition economies. He previously engaged in a variety of technical and financial consulting assignments, where he served in the acquisition and development of several renewable energy projects, including wind, photovoltaic, biomass, and natural gas facilities. He has advised utilities on resource planning efforts and has led multiple power project screening and feasibility assessments for the Department of Defense. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in mechanical engineering and is a licensed professional engineer in Maryland. The Solar Energy Institute is supporting his joint research with Dr. Jonathan Deason on large scale solar integration through an independent grant to the George Washington University Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering.

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Jim Torpey has served as director of market development for SunPower since 2007, bringing two decades of power industry expertise, including, including extensive experience in solar and renewable energy certificate markets. In his market development role, Jim is responsible for
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working with public policy officials to grow solar markets in the eastern U.S. and designing innovative financing strategies using SRECs for residential, commercial, and utility projects in the same region. Prior to joining SunPower, jim was president of Madison Energy Consultants (MEC), a firm that has helped develop supportive policy environments at the State and National levels to enable clean, distributed resources to become a significant factor in the U.S. energy supply. Prior to that, Jim spent more than 20 years in the electric utility industry, serving in a number of management posts, where led the development of solar independent power plants in California. He has served as the National Chairman of the Solar Electric Power Association and the Policy Committee Chair for the Mid- Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association.
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Christopher CookMr. Cook is a member of the Maryland bar and leads the Washington office of Keyes & Fox. Mr. Cook assists clients with renewable energy transactional work and power purchase agreement drafting and negotiation for both commercial and utility customers. He also undertakes regulatory filings and policy work before federal and state renewable energy policy makers.

Prior to joining the firm Mr. Cook was a Managing Director of Sunworks, a startup company focused on building US based solar PV manufacturing facilities to support utility solar deployment. Mr. Cook was formerly Sr. Vice-President, of Regulatory Affairs and New Markets for SunEdison, a company he helped found with three others in 2003. In his role at SunEdison, Mr. Cook worked with utility regulators, state and federal policy makers and electric utilities to create new opportunities for solar energy. He was the principal program architect for the design of the New Jersey solar program —one of the most successful in the world.

Mr. Cook was instrumental in creating the federal standards for the interconnection of small generators with the utility grid. He is considered by many to be the leading national expert on net metering—the economic arrangement by which a customer generating their own power is compensated by their local utility.

Thomas GeorgisThomas Georgis is the Vice President of Development at SolarReserve, which uses integrated molten salt thermal energy storage technology in conjunction with solar power towers. He has over 20 years of development and operational experience in the energy, technology, and government service sectors, holding several senior

management positions, most recently as Managing Director of International at GlobalTec Solutions, a privately held technology company where he was responsible for all aspects of the company’s international expansion. Mr. Georgis was a Principal and Managing Director at Exodus Energy LLC, a Houston based privately held power and natural gas firm. While at Exodus, he focused on the development and acquisition of energy assets, acting as lead developer on several multi-million dollar innovative technology energy facilities including natural gas storage, offshore LNG regasification, and petroleum coke gasification. Previously, Mr. Georgis was a manager at Enron Corp. where he was responsible for developing and structuring energy asset projects internationally; negotiating and closing over 500 MW of power generation agreements. Mr. Georgis also served nine years as a Naval Special Warfare Officer in the United States Navy.

Mr. Georgis graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in International Studies and obtained a MBA from the Anderson School at the University of California Los Angeles.

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Bob GibsonBob Gibson joined the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) as Vice President of Market Intelligence in September 2010. Bob came to SEPA from the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), where he was a senior manager in the Cooperative Research Network, leading NRECA’s analysis of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and

business models. Bob also worked at an alternative energy services company, marketing fuel cells, microturbines, photovoltaics and other technologies to electric utilities. One of his key responsibilities while with the Technology Transition Corporation was program management for the Utility Photovoltaic Group. Bob’s diverse background includes work on projects to bring electricity to rural communities in developing countries in Asia and Latin America, as an award-winning magazine and newspaper editor, writer and photographer, and service as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the West Indies.

Doug GuthrieAn expert in the fields of management, economic reform in China, leadership, and corporate governance, Dr. Guthrie is the Dean of The George Washington University School of Business.

Previously, he served as Professor of Management at NYU Stern School of Business.

He also held a joint appointment as Professor of Sociology at NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Guthrie has been a trusted adviser of both multinationals and local Chinese companies and a student of China for some 25 years. He is the author of Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China, China and Globalization: The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society, and Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi. He is currently writing China’s Radical Transformation: Economic Reform, Global Integration, and Political Change in the World’s Largest Nation, which is an in-depth look at how China’s government-driven form of capitalism has successfully overcome traditional theories of development and helped China become the economic and political juggernaut it is today.

In addition to NYU Stern, Doug has also taught at Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and the graduate schools of business at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Emory University. He received his B.A. in Chinese Literature from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Organizational Sociology from the UC Berkeley.

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Clemens HeskeDr. Clemens Heske is Professor of Materials and Physical Chemistry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Dr. Heske uses soft x-rays to study surfaces and interfaces in a wide variety of material systems for energy conversion. With the expertise and technical skills of his research group, he teams up with over thirty different national and international

partners in academia, national labs, and industry to investigate and improve thin film solar cells, materials for hydrogen production, hydrogen storage, fuel cells, light-emitting devices, nuclear fuel, and other systems that involve interfaces and require a deeper understanding of their properties to optimize the performance and stability of the final device.

Dr. Heske received his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics from the University of Würzburg in Germany in 1998. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he became a “wissenschaftlicher Assistent” at the University of Würzburg and completed his German Habilitation in Experimental Physics in December of 2003. In 2004, Dr. Heske joined the UNLV Chemistry Department as an Associate Professor for Materials/Physical Chemistry and was tenured in the summer of 2007 and promoted to Professor in the summer of 2009.

Jack HurleyJack Hurley currently leads the US University Collaboration program for the Siemens Corporation. In this role, Jack is responsible for establishing and managing strategic collaborations with leading North American research universities on behalf of Siemens worldwide.

Prior to joining Siemens in 2007, Jack worked as a management consultant focusing on emerging opportunities in the energy technology and sustainability sectors. Jack’s depth of experience in the energy technology sector enables him to play a valuable role in energy related strategic initiatives at Siemens Corporate Research.

Jack earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Andrew MurphyJ. Andrew Murphy, Drew has been an Executive Vice President of NRG Energy Inc., since December 18, 2006 and its President of the Northeast Region since February 2009. Mr. Murphy lead NRG’s Northeast Region, representing more than 7,000 megawatts of electricity in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York.

He served as General Counsel of NRG Energy Inc., from December 18, 2006 to February 2009. He advises and support NRG on all legal matters relevant to its terms of compliance, governance and general business operations. He came to NRG from the law firm of Hunton & Williams where he served as Partner in Charge of their energy practice. He has more than 15 years of experience representing issuers, developers, investors and lenders in a wide variety of U.S. and cross-border energy projects and structured financings. His legal expertise includes supporting various development projects and financings including coal- and gas-fired power plants, transmission lines, gas storage facilities, waste-to-energy facilities, water treatment facilities and renewable energy projects.

Mr. Murphy has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Harvard College and a Law Degree from the George Washington University.

Steven LermanSteven Lerman became provost of The George Washington University on July 1, 2010. Dr. Lerman joined The George Washington University from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he served as vice chancellor and dean for graduate education, acting as the chancellor’s chief deputy and working to develop strategic initiatives across the units of the Office of the

Dean of Graduate Education, Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education and the Division for Student Life.

Dr. Lerman brings to GW more than 35 years of experience as a leader and scholar at one of the nation’s most prestigious research universities. He began at MIT as a student, earning a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems Analysis. He joined the faculty in 1975 as assistant professor of civil engineering and rose through the ranks, serving twice as chair of the faculty and then as dean of graduate education since 2007 and as vice chancellor since 2008. His awards and honors have included the Advisor of the Year Award from the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students, the Maseeh Teaching Award for best departmental teacher and the Class of 1922 Distinguished Professorship.

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Minh LeMinh Le is the Chief Engineer of the Solar Energy Technologies Program within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the US Department of Energy. The Solar Energy Technologies Program represents and provides the national programmatic expertise in solar energy to support the formulation and execution

of national energy policies. Secretary Chu recently announced a new initiative called SunShot, aimed at helping make solar energy competitive with fossil fuels without subsidies by the end of the decade. Minh helps manage and balance the portfolio of Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment programs in achieving our national goals.

Prior to his current role at the DOE, Minh spent his career in industry developing technologies and scaling new technologies to high volume manufacturing. Most recently, he was at Evergreen Solar where he managed the team that developed the Quad String Ribbon Silicon wafer technology. He served on the Board of Directors of a Design For Manufacturing startup and has advised a number of other high technology startups. Minh earned his SB and SM degrees from MIT where he held fellowships by the DoD, DoE, and the Bose Foundation.

Carl LenoxCarl Lenox is a principal engineer in technology for SunPower Corporation and currently leads a cross-functional team that is addressing the challenges of integrating photovoltaic power plants into the utility system. He has spent more than ten years in the solar industry in diverse roles, including product development and certification; codes and standards

development; performance modeling; and testing and reliability. Lenox holds three U.S. patents with numerous applications pending.

Mr. Lenox earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University

of California San Diego.

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Stuart LichtDr. Licht is Professor of Chemistry in The George Washington University Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and is a founding member of the GWU Institute of Basic Energy Science and Technology. His current research focuses on the generation of fuels from sunlight, and he has published numerous articles on the subject, which have been

featured in the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Prior to coming to the George Washington University, Dr. Licht served as a Program Director in the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation. He also held professor positions at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Clark University, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he served as Chair of the Chemistry Department from 2003 to 2006.

Dr. Licht earned his doctorate from the Weizmann Institute of Science and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s in physics from Wesleyan University.

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Randall PackerDr. Randall Packer is Associate Dean for Special Projects at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at the George Washington University, and serves as Scientific Director for the GW Solar Institute. He is a Professor of Biology and also serves on the faculty of graduate programs in Environmental Resource Policy and Molecular Medicine. He received his Ph.D.

in Zoology from the Pennsylvania State University and has served as a visiting scientist in the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; The National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md); The Laboratory of Comparative Respiration, Bristol University (Bristol, England); and the Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC). His research interests include mammalian renal physiology as well as ion balance, respiration and acid-base balance in other vertebrates, especially as affected by acid pollution and temperature.

Dr. Packer’s work has appeared in Science, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, American Journal of Physiology, Kidney International, Physiological Reviews, and the Journal of Experimental Biology.

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Richard PerezRichard Perez is a Research Professor at the University at Albany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, where he directs applied research and teaches in the fields of solar radiation, and solar energy applications, and daylighting. He holds a Master and a Doctorate in Atmospheric Sciences (University of Paris and SUNY-Albany) and

an Undergraduate Degree in Electrotechnics (University of Nice, France). Noted contributions to the field of solar energy include; identifying the potential of photovoltaic power generation to meet the electrical power demand of large cities in nontraditional solar regions such as the northeastern United States; and, the development solar radiation models which have been incorporated in standard solar energy and daylighting calculation practice around the world.

Perez has produced over 200 journal articles, conference papers and technical reports and holds two US patents on methods of load management using photovoltaics. He has received several international awards including a Certificate for Outstanding Research from the USDOE, Best Published Article from the International Solar Energy Society, and the American Solar Energy Society’s highest award, the Charles Greeley Abbot Award. He recently received the 2008 Solar Industry Professional of the Year Award from the New York Solar Energy Industries Association.

Bill PowersMr. Powers is a registered professional engineer in California with over 25 years of experience in the energy and environmental fields. He is involved in siting distributed PV plants and has permitted numerous peaking gas turbine, microturbine, and engine cogeneration plants in California. Mr. Powers organized the first U.S. conference

focused exclusively on dry cooling systems for power plants in 2002. He is the author of the October 2007 strategic energy plan, “San Diego Smart Energy 2020,” for the San Diego region. The plan uses California’s Energy Action Plan as the template for accelerated introduction of local distributed renewable and combined heat and power resources to reduce GHG emissions from power generation in the San Diego region by 50 percent by 2020. Mr. Powers served as an expert witness in a landmark California Energy Commission proceeding where the Commission determined urban PV could potentially serve as a cost-effective alternative to conventional gas turbine peaking power. He has written articles on the strategic cost and reliability advantages of local PV over large-scale, remote, transmission-dependent renewable resources. Mr. Powers has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Duke University and an M.P.H. in environmental sciences from the UNC–Chapel Hill.

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Elizabeth SingletonElizabeth Singleton is the Global Business Development Leader for Energy & Climate Change at The Dow Chemical Company. In this role, Elizabeth is responsible for identifying innovative business opportunities that help Dow minimize its own energy footprint as well as developing new solutions for the energy marketplace through Dow’s

current product portfolio and expertise.

Elizabeth joined Dow in 2008 as a Sustainability Leader to work on Dow’s 2015 Sustainability Goal: Breakthroughs to World Challenges, where she was responsible for designing a new strategy for goal implementation. Prior to her current position, she helped establish Dow’s Government Markets Group, building relationships with key government agencies, seeking support for Dow initiatives, and developing new channels to government purchasing programs. Her early career was spent working in international development in East Africa where she was the inaugural Coordinator for the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum, a civil society network focused on sustainable natural resource management.

James SitesDr. Sites studies the device physics of CdTe and CIGS thin-film solar cells. His photovoltaics lab makes precision electrical and optical measurements on solar cells fabricated by several partners in the U.S. and abroad. The goals are to separate the various solar-cell losses, to explain the losses on a fundamental basis, and to suggest

strategies for improved solar–cell performance.

Professor Sites has an increasing leadership role in the thin–film solar–cell community. He has published 150 papers, including being co-author of the chapter on CdTe in the Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering. 26 of his students have completed the Ph.D., and many are active in the U.S. PV community.

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Scott SklarScott Sklar is President of The Stella Group, a strategic marketing and policy firm for clean distributed energy users and companies. The firm specializes in blending technologies and financing for projects, assisting companies to scale-up market penetration, and facilitating federal and state polices to expand markets. He joined the company full-time as its President in 2000.

For fifteen years, he was simultaneously the Executive Director of the Solar Energy Industries Association and the National BioEnergy Industries Association. Sklar also served as Political Director of the Solar Lobby, formed by several national environmental groups, and co-founded the Congressional Solar Coalition, which helped drive legislation for renewables in the 1970s. His coauthored book, A Consumer Guide to Solar Energy, was re-released for its third printing, and his co-authored book, The Forbidden Fuel: Power Alcohol in the Twentieth Century, was updated and re-released in early 2010 by University of Nebraska Press.

Sklar serves on and chairs numerous industry and non-profit boards. Sklar will join GW in September 2010 to teach a course on sustainable energy within the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.

Simon WatsonSimon Watson is the Director of Utility Market Strategy at SunEdison, based in their Maryland headquarters. He is responsible for product development and market strategy for the North American utility business segment. Prior to joining SunEdison he was General Manager of Tetronics Ventures LLC, a thermal plasma technology and investment company

and has held senior positions in management consulting firms, including Accenture and Navigant Consulting, advising a wide range of US and international utility businesses on strategy and regulatory matters. He began his career as an economist at British Aerospace plc and then at British Energy plc, the nuclear generator, where he also served as the company’s representative to the European Union in Brussels.

Simon is a graduate of the University of Liverpool and the London School of Economics.

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Kathy WeissKathy is a Vice President of Federal Government Affairs and is responsible for managing the company’s interests before Congress and within the Administration. She also serves on various trade and business associations, including the Solar Energy Industry Association’s Board of Directors. First Solar manufactures solar modules

with an advanced thin film semiconductor process and provides comprehensive system solutions that significantly reduce solar electricity costs.

Prior to joining First Solar, Kathy worked for Centex Corporation, a leading national homebuilder. As Vice President, Government & Public Affairs, Kathy managed federal, state and local legislative and regulatory issues affecting the company. Kathy was also responsible for managing the Centex Political Action Committee as well as representing Centex within various trade and business associations.

Prior to joining Centex, Kathy worked for MeadWestvaco, a global paper and packaging company, holding management positions in Government Relations and Investor Relations during her tenure.

Kathy has an undergraduate degree in economics from UCLA and a master’s degree in political management from the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University.

Ken ZweibelKen Zweibel has almost 30 years experience in solar photovoltaics. During his 26 years at the National renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Zweibel led their development of thin film PV, serving as program leader for the Thin Film PV Partnership Program until 2006. The Thin Film Partnership worked with most U.S. stakeholders in thin film PV (companies,

universities, scientists) and is often credited with being important to the success of thin film PV in the U.S. Zweibel subsequently cofounded and became Chairman and President of a thin film CdTe PV start-up, PrimeStar Solar, a majority of which has been purchased by General Electric. Zweibel authored the “Solar Grand Plan,” an article appearing in Scientific American (January 2008).

Since July 2008, Zweibel has been Director of the Solar Institute at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Institute conducts research into the economic, technical, and public policy issues associated with the development and deployment of solar energy to meet global energy and environmental challenges. Zweibel has been on the Steering Committee of the “DOE Solar Vision” since June 2009, when it began an effort to develop a deployment plan for solar through 2030. Zweibel also keeps an active blog on solar energy, thesolarreview.org.

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