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Pre-Summit: New Energy Finance University

New Energy Finance University showcases leading research and insight in seventeen-minute presentations on topics such as ‘Climategate’, offshore wind, pellet markets, Chinese giga wind bases, North American Carbon & REC markets, financing energy development in the emerging markets & microfinance, and next generation financial instruments.

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Pre-Summit: New Energy Pioneers Showcase

New for Summit 2010, we will be unveiling the New Energy Pioneers Programme, which will select and award the top five companies that our Analysts consider to be the most promising and progressive in the field of energy technology and innovation. Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s aim has been to select the future ‘game changers’ of energy use, efficiency, transportation, storage and support them in their ventures.

Luncheons

New Energy Pioneers Lunch

Press Lunch

Formal Opening Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit 2010

Keynote Session 1: Beyond Copenhagen

Copenhagen has come and gone. What really happened at the negotiations? Is the Copenhagen/COP model the best one for furture negotitions and for coming to a global consensus on combating climate change? Leading figures from the negotiations give their behind-the-scenes viewpoints and a reality check for the road ahead.

Studio Discussion 1: Responses to Copenhagen Keynotes

Combating climate change is not the only driver of the transition to a global low-carbon economy. What role does energy security play in that transition? With an eye towards industry momentum, what effects are funding mechanisms and technology transfers having on further development of the clean energy industry and the global carbon markets?

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Keynote Session 2: Beyond Stimulus

Amidst the recent financial crisis and global economic slowdown, G-7 countries committed over $80bn in ‘green stimulus’ to help spur recovery. How much has actually been spent? Will the timing of the deployment help or hurt the industry? Of the jobs that were intended, how many have actually been created? Has ‘green spending’ had a macro-economic impact? Which programmes worked and which didn’t? What will happen following the current stimulus programmes? How will the industry adapt to the post-stimulus environment?

Studio Discussion 2: Responses to Stimulus Keynotes

2010 will be an important year for balancing national and regional stimulus programmes with private sector investments. And yet not all of the public money is being spent – how can this funding be mobilised? How does the private sector manage its investment risks in a post-stimulus environment?

Eye-Opener Session 1: The Need for Action

Summary of Day One

Drinks Reception

Opening Themed Dinner

Participants are invited to join one of five themed dinners focused on in-depth and relaxed discussions about some of the most challenging questions facing our industry today.

Dessert & Lounge Bar Chill-out

Participants are invited to join one of five themed dinners focused on in-depth and relaxed discussions about some of the most challenging questions facing our industry today.

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Strategy Breakfast 1:
Beyond the Boom: The Wind Industry after the Financial and Regulatory Good Times

The wind industry has survived the fall-out from the financial crisis in comparatively rude health. However, despite being the poster child for an industrialised and mainstream renewable energy solution, it faces major political and legislative hurdles ahead including continued dependence on political support and budgetary largesse. What does the industry need to do to tackle these issues, how is the political landscape developing around the world and how will it develop in future as legislation in key markets expires over the next few years?

Strategy Breakfast 2:
Large-scale Solar Projects: Which Technology will Dominate?

The next few years will see the first 100MW+ solar projects built. Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis suggests that thin-film PV will have the lead on levelised cost of electricity, but crystalline silicon PV is not far behind and could be pushed ahead by declines in the price of tracking, and solar thermal electricity generation (STEG) is more expensive and requires more water, but can generate better quality power adapted to the local load profile – an increasingly important feature as utilities struggle to integrate higher proportions of solar into their generation mix. The discussion at the strategy breakfast will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of each technology, which markets each is likely to capture, and how companies are setting out their stalls to capture share in the 100MW+ project market.

Strategy Breakfast 3:
How to Realise Biomass Value

Biomass, food or otherwise, and whether used as a source for transport fuel or electricity, currently has a market. Feedstock availability, bioscience, new conversion technologies, downstream innovation, and various waste-to-energy applications will all advance the evolution of the biomass value chain over the next two decades. Bloomberg New Energy Finance will explore where and how some of these opportunities will play out.

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Keynote: Trends in Global Clean Energy Investment

Founder and Chairman of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Michael Liebreich, presents the latest global trends in clean energy investment.

Interactive Session 1: The State as Investor

As the capital markets continue to rebuild, the state – from national governments to multinational development banks to pension funds and other public entities - has played a large role in capital formation.

The European Investment Bank alone has committed billions of dollars in loans to renewable energy projects in its backyard. How much longer will the state have to drive large-scale investment in this industry?

How does the state prioritise risk profile differences versus the private sector? How do they view sharing the risk with the private sector? Should the state act as a lender of last resort or catalyst? Do we need a world energy bank?

Eye-Opener Session 2: Gotta Have Vision

Luncheons

Buffet Lunch

Partner's Lunch

Bloomberg New Energy Finance Research: GE2M

Bloomberg New Energy Finance has married its energy and emissions analysis into the industry's most authoritative forecasting tool: The Global Energy & Emissions Model (GE2M). GE2M is a partial equilibrium model of the world’s energy and carbon system, that is highly detailed, dynamic, and transparent. Guy Turner will present the latest projections prepared for the Summit, and discuss model architecture and data sources.

Eye-Opener Session 3: Ernest Moniz, MITEI

Designed to help transform the global energy system to meet the needs of the future and to help build a bridge to that future by improving today's energy systems, the MIT Energy Initiative's interdisciplinary research program focuses on innovative technologies, transformational technologies, global systems, and innovation tools. Ernest Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, as well as a Director of the MIT Energy Initiative. He will present MITEI's view on the future.

Interactive Session 2: Financing the Future Energy Mix

The world's future energy mix will be determined by long-term capital investments made with a carbon liability in mind. Which solutions will prevail? Which will lose? Who will provide finance? How will incumbents respond?

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Studio Discussion 3: Energy Efficiency – Business Models That Work

Energy Efficiency attracted some $62bn worth of government stimulus, more than 33% of all stimulus funds. Who has drawn upon these huge coffers of cash? What business models are working? Are investors placing more bets on storage, materials, or transmission? Are loan guarantees, grants, and tax credits the right way to stimulate this sector?

Eye-Opener Session 4: Barking Up the Wrong Tree? Dispelling the Myths about Forestry

Prospects for forestry have improved with the Copenhagen Accord explicitly recognising the importance of reducing emissions from the sector. However, limited interest and investment in forestry to date has meant that misconceptions have lingered. We examine the following ‘myths’ in greater detail as our Thought Leaders set the record straight.

Summary of Day Two

Drinks Reception

League Tables 2010 & Gala Awards Dinner

Champagne Toast

Gala Awards Dinner

Bloomberg New Energy Finance is proud to be presenting our fifth League Table Awards These awards are based on the most comprehensive clean energy and carbon market data, and have become the industry standard.

Awards After Party

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Strategy Breakfast 4:
Electric Vehicles: What’s it Going to Take?

The dominance of fossil fuels over personal mobility is waning. Do technological advances in energy storage mean that the electric vehicle’s time has come? Will alternate fuels and electric drive deliver significant emissions reductions? And will they meet consumer needs and expectations?

Strategy Breakfast 5:
Opportunities and barriers for Carbon Capture & Storage

Long talked about as a near-panacea for curbing CO2 emissions from the fossil-fuelled power sector, carbon capture and storage took its first sizeable steps towards commercialisation and wide deployment in 2010. Over $20bn in public funds were pledged to build large-scale demonstration projects and incentive plans worth billions more are under consideration in legislative chambers worldwide. But will these public funds be sufficient to drive ongoing CCS development, and bring the technology down the cost curve? Can government incentives make CCS a profitable venture in the near-term? Are CCS economics the true barrier to CCS deployment, or do regulatory or geologic issues pose even greater challenges?

Strategy Breakfast 6:
Nuclear Energy: A Carbon Tonic to Complement Renewable Technologies

Nuclear energy provides 70% of the carbon-free electricity generated in the world today. Analysts contend that without nuclear-generated electricity, reducing carbon dioxide goals will be a more difficult, uncertain and expensive challenge. Nuclear energy is becoming a more prominent component of the myriad climate bills in Washington, and new life has now been breathed into nuclear by the Germans, who in recent elections demonstrated that nuclear has a role to play in helping that country meet its carbon emission goals. While nuclear plants have grown to 1,650MW, they have also shrunk smaller to 25MW. Small modular nuclear plants eliminate the initial $US6–8bn capex expenditures that large new build present and they will play an ever increasing role in developing and industrial markets with their impact on renewable technologies measurable. Bloomberg New Energy Finance has invited a panel of speakers – both vendors and customers – to address prospects for Generation III+ reactors and new modular technologies and their impact on future renewable markets.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance Research: Lessons from CoDE

Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Consortium on Digital Energy (CoDE) continues to draw upon expertise and experience from the energy, information technology, and communications sectors, to create a converged perspective on the development of tomorrow’s energy systems. What will comprise the future Digital Energy infrastructure? Which business models will prevail and which will suffer? Will the bottlenecks come from policy, technology or both? How much third party investment will be necessary?

Interactive Session 3: Smart Grid and Beyond

The smart grid is an emerging reality that will facilitate unprecedented change in the world's energy system. But just how smart will the grid be? Who will secure it? Which of the myriad communication technologies will prevail? Will advanced metering networks really enable more distributed generation – and how will the grid cope? Will regulation be smart enough to keep up?

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Studio Discussion 4: Financing the Game Changers

The next generation of game-changing energy players faces great financing challenges in the years ahead. Is the venture capital model working for both the clean energy investor and companies? Should steps be taken by the state to help companies overcome the valley of death to ramp up their technology. How can public and private financing options for these companies help to produce winners? How can investors be sure that the time to commit is now –in scale, in technology and in scope?

Eye-Opener Session 5: It Can Be Done

Closing Remarks

Closing Buffett Lunch

Field Trips (4)

British Waterways and Olympic Park – London

A tour of the British Waterways including the Olympic Park development and House Mill on Three Mills Island, Bromley-by-Bow a grade 1 listed 18th century tidal believed to be the largest tidal mill still in existence in the world.

Culham Science Centre – Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Trip will include an introduction to fusion research, detailing the basic concept and how they hope to develop this technology to enter the energy market in the future. Followed by seeing the two fusion experiments that operate at the centre, MAST their own UK fusion experiment and JET the Joint European Tours.

GroDome, Imperial College – London

The GroDome is the only rooftop facility of its kind in London. It provides Imperial's plant scientists with over 200 square metres of temperature and light controlled growing space for a variety of plant species, allowing them to carry out large-scale plant experiments in an urban location for the first time. Since the structure was completed in April, three projects have already taken root in the GroDome, producing biofuels from willows, tomato stress resistance and sequencing the tomato genome and aphid resistance in plants.

Rothamsted Research – Harpenden, Hertfordshire

Rothamsted is the largest agricultural research centre in the UK and oldest in the world, it has built an international reputation as a centre of excellence for science in support of sustainable land management and its environmental impact. Scientific research ranges from studies of genetics, biochemistry, cell biology and soil processes to investigations at the ecosystem and landscape scale.

Thanet Offshore Wind Farm – Foreness Point, Kent

The Thanet Offshore Wind Farm project is located approximately 12 km off Foreness Point, Kent, this trip will involve a helicopter tour of what will be the largest operational offshore wind farm in the world.