This annual event is an opportunity to join the wind industry's leading project developers, lenders, investors, financial innovators and other industry players at the as they discuss the cutting edge developments in the wind power finance and investment markets, as well as the various challenges and prospects for 2010 and beyond.

Jim Tynion will serve as moderator for the panel: New Market Realities

In this session, panelists will discuss the latest industry trends including: swings from severe constraints on capital raising as a result of the credit crisis to the potential availability of enormous new government funding through renewable energy-friendly initiatives; from turbine shortage to turbine surplus; and from record high asset valuations to the near disappearance of the M&A market and then the return to more conservative pricing. Panelists will also analyze the new market realities for wind power project financing, the M&A deal flow, the impact of low power prices, the new turbine market, and how all this will impact the environment for the wind power projects industry in 2010 and beyond.

Jim Tynion and Elizabeth Hanigan will present the session: Negotiating Your Power Purchase Agreements

This presentation will discuss lessons learned in the developing power purchase agreement market including:

• Status of offtake market
• Trends affecting PPAs
• State mandates, national RES, and climate change legislation
• Demand
• State commission approvals
• Utility participants—willing or not so willing
• Municipal and public utilities
• Updates on terms, conditions, pricing, and security
• Joint ventures and utility purchase options
• Merchant market update and interplay with transmission issues

For more information, please visit the event web site.