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30 - 31 OCTOBER 2017NEW YORK, USA

EARLY CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

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ADVANCED MICROGRID SOLUTIONS | Vishvesh Jhaveri, Project Finance

ALTUS POWER | Tom Athan, CEO

ARES MANAGEMENT | Mike Roth, Principal

BLACKROCK | David Giordano, Head of Renewables, North America

C2 Energy Capital | Richard Dovere, Managing Member - NEW

CIT | Rhys Marsh, Director

CLEAN ENERGY GROUP | Robert Sanders, Senior Finance Director - NEW

CLEAN FUND | John Kinney, CEO - NEW

CLEANCHOICE | Peter Coleman, Structured Finance

CREDIT SUISSE | Jerry Smith, Managing Director

DEUTSCHE BANK | Vinod Mukani, Managing Director

EAST WEST BANK | Rob Botschka, Senior Vice President

ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS | Dana Sands, Director

GAF | Jason Barrett, Executive Director

GENERATE CAPITAL | Matan Freidman, Co-Founder

GREENWOOD ENERGY | Camilo Patrignani, CEO

MACQUARIE CAPITAL | William Demas, Senior Vice President

MISA | Jessica Harrison, Director of Market Research and Development

MIZUHO | Mark Gurfinkel, Director Project Finance

MOODY’S | Swami Venkataraman, CFA, Senior Vice President, Global Project & Infrastructure Finance

NAMASTE SOLAR | Cynthia Christensen, Co Owner / Commercial/Utility Sales Commercial

NYSERDA | David Sandbank, Director

NYSERDA | Jason Doling, Program Manager

ORIGIS | Guy Vanderheagen, CEO

REVOLUSUN | Joshua Powell, CEO - NEW

SEMINOLE EQUITY PARTNERS | Matt James, Managing Director

SEMINOLE FINANCIAL | Joe Ritter, Director

SOCORE ENERGY | Eric Luesebrink, Vice President of Development

STARWOOD ENERGY | Ali Admirali, Senior Vice President

STATE STREET BANK | Santosh Raiker, Managing Director

STEM | Brendan Harney, Director of Business Development

SUNLIGHT GENERAL CAPITAL | Stacey Hughes, CFO

TERRAFORM POWER | Chad Reed, Risk Manager - NEW

WUNDER CAPITAL | Bryan Birsic, Co-Founder & CEO

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9.00 STATE OF TAX EQUITY: 2017-2018

• Structures:

o What is the optimal structure for C&I?

o What is the prevailing structure of last year’s deals and what’s changing in 2018? What’s driving the change?

o Sponsor profiles and the tax equity structure that best fits them

• Deal flow: are deals being postponed or hurried?

• What is the allocation strategy: fewer deals with more volume or vice versa?

• Wind versus solar: what are you basing your respective allocation on?

• Are non-traditional tax equity investors catering to the C&I space? If so, how? And what is their appetite and tax equity allocation?

• Tax risk insurance best practice

• Secondary market and the impact of different tax equity structures

• Tax reform: perceived impact on ITC investments?

9.40 DEVELOPERS PANEL

A selection of developers will go through their strategies for the next 12 months:

• Geographical focus

• Market segment focus

• Investment sourcing

• Deal flow

• Flipping assets

• Pipelines and business model strategies

10.50 Networking refreshment break

11.20 UTILITIES’ ROLE IN THE STORAGE MARKETPLACE

• What are utilities’ needs moving forward and what is the role that storage can play in that space?

• What are the drivers for utilities to back energy storage?

• What are the drivers for utilities to develop, own and operate energy storage?

• Different ownership models and contractual structures: what is most sustainable when?

12.00 DEVELOPERS PERSPECTIVE: REVENUE STACKING & BUSINESS MODEL BANKABILITY

The energy storage space market is a constellation of opportunities. However with different states having different policies and markets it can be hard to build a strategy around energy storage.

Policy makers, utilities and developers need to come together to assess how to best utilize storage and how to refine the market design in a way that takes into account the contractual and bankability requirements of financiers and investors as well as T&D network needs moving forward.

• What are the business models that are yielding the best returns and why?

• Which technologies are preferred?

• What are the design considerations?

• Behind- and Front- of the meter

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13:00 Networking Lunch break

14.30 INTERACTIVE REGIONAL ROUNDTABLES:

Delegates will have the opportunity to speak to, and ask questions of developers and financiers active in the following states in this 1 hour break out session. Each table host will be tasked with a set of discussion points and he/she will summarize the highlights of the discussion at the end of the session.

• NEW YORK

• MINESSOTA

• NEW JERSEY

• CALIFORNIA

• NORTH CAROLINA

• FLORIDA

• COLORADO

• MASSACHUSSETS

• TEXAS

15.30 FEEDBACK ON ROUNDTABLE HIGHLIGHTS

16:00 Networking refreshment break

16.30 COMMUNITY ENERGY FINANCING

With 343MW of community projects installed in 2016 and an additional 400MW predicted to go live by end of 2017, community solar represents a sizeable market segment. Many question however remain on how scalable it is and whether it is too policy dependent to attract a significant portion of investment

• Which are the most promising markets and how do they differ in policy structure and market depth?

• How do the two different business models (third party owned and utility-led) affect the bankability of the projects?

• Understanding the facts of the complex relationship between utilities and community solar

• How are standardization of documentation to deal with project structures moving forward?

• How does the backup subscriber model affect bankability? Pros and Cons?

• Taking into consideration loss reserves for pay-as-you-go subscribers

• Who are the debt providers in this space and what are they most concerned about?

17.30 ENERGY BLOCKCHAIN CASE STUDY: PRESIDENT STREET BROOKLYN

Block chain technology is considered to be the disruptive economic theory of the next decade. Energy it’s a field where makes a lot of sense to deploy it. This session will talk about how you cut the middle men (network and utilities) and still transact and enforce contracts.

• How does the software work?

• How is the project getting financed without the utility involvement and credit scoring?

• What are the implications for the future of community solar?

• How can removing accounting and infrastructure losses affect the models and the cost?

18:00 Networking drinks reception

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9.00 EQUITY & DEBT PERSPECTIVE FOR ENERGY STORAGE

• Analysis of recent deals and financing structures

• What financing vehicles are available?

• What are equity providers looking for?

• What structures and interest rates are banks willing to consider?

• Which market are they most interested in and why?

• How are contracts affecting the bankability of the projects?

10.00 PROJECTS’ BASIS RISK FROM HEDGES AND CORPORATE PPAS

The corporate PPAs market has made a lot of noise in the past year. Many Fortune 500 companies have pledged to go 100% renewable through a mix of strategies that include onsite and offsite renewables PPAs. However, many developers are arguing that there hasn’t been as much activity in this space as they were forecasting. This session will cover the risks that need to be offset in the structuring of the corporate PPA structure as well as the financial community perspective of their involvement and their concerns.• How are tax equity providers responding to the preferred structure that corporates are putting forward?

• What are lenders worried about?

• What impact does it have on the structure if the corporate decides to wrap up energy price risk with additional hedging arrangements?

• How to deal and offset these risks:

o Basis risks

o Consumption risk

o Seller performance risk

o Energy price risk

o Structures to avoid Dodd-Frank regulations on swaps and avoid derivative and lease accounting treatment

10.50 Networking Lunch break

11.20 M&A AND SECONDARY MARKETS FOR SOLAR

• At what stage are projects getting sold?

• Utilities’ appetite for solar ownership: what are their drivers? How do they value power?

• New investors entering the market:

o What is their background?

o What are their drivers?

o How competitive can they be compared to the existing players?

o How is their entrance shaping the secondary market marketplace?



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12.00 ISOS AND RTOS: WHAT ARE THEIR FUTURE NEEDS AND PROCUREMENT STRATEGIES?

One of the most important factors to consider is market depth. This session will address what RTOs and ISO and how can those problems be translated into services that energy storage is able to provide. More specifically:• Procurement strategies?

• Length of contracts

• Synergies between contracts

• Market design

13.00 Networking Lunch break

14.00 INTERACTIVE STORAGE ROUNDTABLES:

Delegates will have the opportunity to speak to and ask questions to developers and financiers active in the market in this 1 hour break out session. Each table host will be tasked with a set of discussion points and he/she will be summarizing the highlights of the discussion at the end of the session.• ROLE OF AGGREGATORS IN ENERGY STORAGE

• LARGE SCALE BTM ENERGY STORAGE

• PJM MARKETS

• ERCOT

• CALIFORNIA

• MASSACHUSSETS

• NEW YORK

15.30 FEEDBACK ON ROUNDTABLES

All roundtable chairs will take the stage and recount all the highlights of their discussion

16.00 Networking refreshment break

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