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Platinum Sponsors

Orrick’s energy and projects practice comprises nearly 150 lawyers located across the globe, representing clients worldwide. We are noted for our leading practices in energy project development and finance, governmental energy funding, public private partnerships, and venture capital and emerging company representation in the clean tech and renewable energy sectors.

For more information, visit www.orrick.com/practices/global/energy.asp.

Serving clients in every major international financial center, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates is one of the leading law firms in the world, with 23 offices and approximately 2,000 attorneys. Our diversified practice enables us to offer solutions to the most challenging legal issues in virtually every area of corporate law, providing the specific legal advice clients need to compete most effectively in a global business environment. We represent approximately 50 percent of the Fortune 250 industrial and service corporations, as well as financial and governmental entities, high-technology startup companies, and cultural, educational and charitable institutions, advising on a wide variety of high-profile transactions, regulatory matters, and litigation and controversy issues.

For more information, visit www.skadden.com/.

Stoel Rives LLP, a leading full-service law firm, is proud to have been at the forefront of the explosive growth of renewable energy in recent years. Rated one of the nation’s best renewable energy law practices by both Chambers and Partners and U.S. News & World Report, we represent major national and international energy developers and operators in wind, biofuels, ocean and tidal, geothermal and solar energy projects throughout the United States and abroad. Our services encompass all aspects of power project licensing, local permitting, financing, taxation, real estate, equipment, procurement, construction, project acquisition and project operations. Stoel Rives has advised clients in connection with more than 100 large wind energy projects that were online operational at the end of 2010, representing a total of 11,130 MW of installed capacity in the U.S. and Canada.

For more information, visit www.stoel.com.

Troutman Sanders LLP is an international law firm with more than 600 lawyers and offices located throughout the United States and China. Founded in 1897, the firm’s heritage of extensive experience, exceptional responsiveness and an unwavering commitment to service has garnered strong, long-standing relationships with clients across the globe. Troutman Sanders has counseled energy industry clients since the 1920s. Since then, a dynamic renewable energy practice has developed to advise clients at every stage, from investment and tax structuring to development, construction and operation. As your plans for wind and solar projects emerge, put the energy of our lawyers to work for you.

For more information, visit www.troutmansanders.com.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is uniquely positioned to help companies and their financial partners realize the vast promise of the energy and clean technology field. The firm’s traditional leadership in the technology sector makes us exceptionally well suited to serve as a strategic advisor to visionary companies at all stages of development. To take full advantage of this unparalleled platform, we have assembled a highly specialized team of energy and clean technology attorneys, giving us top-tier expertise in everything from patents to project finance, government affairs to tax structures. Also setting the firm apart are our longstanding relationships with venture capitalists, private equity firms, and major financial institutions across the U.S. and abroad, which allow us to serve as a conduit to—and advisor regarding—-a wide variety of funding sources. When it comes to structuring and closing groundbreaking transactions in the emerging energy economy, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has become the firm of choice for leading companies, investors, and lenders.

For more information, visit www.wsgr.com.

Gold Sponsors

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has one of the world’s leading project finance and renewable energy practices. We represent developers, lenders, equity investors, manufacturers, technology companies and other sector participants in a broad array of energy and infrastructure projects, with a focus on the development, financing, operation, acquisition and disposition of renewable energy projects and renewable energy companies. Our team has significant experience across all renewable energy technologies, including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, biofuel and hydroelectric projects and over the past year we have been lead counsel on the three largest renewable energy projects financed in the United States.

For more information, visit www.akingump.com.

Amonix is the recognized leader in designing and manufacturing concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar power systems that require no water in power production, use land better, and produce more energy per acre than any other solar technology. With the longest track record of real-world CPV deployments in the industry, Amonix is proven to be the best choice for solar power systems in sunny and dry climates. Amonix is headquartered in Seal Beach, California.

For more information, visit www.amonix.com/.

Ballard Spahr LLP’s Energy and Project Finance Group assists clients in all aspects of renewable energy project development and finance. We are a national practice with 13 offices nationwide. Our broad experience with the financial markets combined with industry-specific knowledge of business, technology, and regulatory issues allows us to structure creditworthy projects that meet business and tax objectives.

This recent practice focus builds on and complements our historic, and ongoing, traditional energy development work in gas, coal (including coal gasification), waste coal, nuclear, and waste-to-energy power plants, as well as refineries, off-shore drilling rigs, and transmission facilities.

We have substantial experience over 20 years in the non-recourse financing of independent power projects and, during the past few years, of renewable energy projects that depend on federal and state tax subsidies and other forms of governmental support. Key members of our energy team are well known for structuring innovative project deals.

For more information, visit www.ballardspahr.com/.

Chadbourne & Parke LLP is a franchise name in the independent power business. More than 70 lawyers work full-time in the project finance group, making it one of the largest such groups of any US law firm. The group has worked on projects in more than 80 countries, and is ranked number one in the US renewable energy market (in a shared ranking with Milbank) by the prestigious Chambers directory in London based on year-round interviewing of corporate law departments and peers at other firms. Chadbourne is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York and has other offices in Washington, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Almaty, Moscow, Warsaw, Kiev, Istanbul, Dubai and London.

For more information, visit www.chadbourne.com.

Cooley Godward Kronish is a national law firm for the converging worlds of high technology, high finance and high-stakes litigation. We are counselors, strategists and advocates for the foremost private and public companies across a wide variety of industries and in all major technology fields. Our clients include business organizations, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, financial institutions, private equity firms, professional services firms and real estate owners and developers. Cooley has approximately 650 attorneys and represents clients in more than 20 industries.

For more information, visit www.cooley.com/.

DELOITTE’S M&A practice provides, comprehensive and strategically focused tax, accounting and advisory services to both financial and corporate buyers. With a global network of over 4,000 M&A specialists, clients have access to experienced professionals in all forms of acquisitions, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives, and post transaction and integration activities. Our multi-disciplinary approach teams top-flight M&A professionals, industry specialists and technical experts to provide fact-based answers and independent advice geared to helping clients minimize risk and maximize returns.

For more information, visit www.deloitte.com.

Duff & Phelps is a leading global provider of financial advisory and investment banking services, providing expertise in the areas of valuation, transactions, financial restructuring, alternative assets, disputes and taxation. Duff & Phelps balances analytical skills, deep market insight and independence to help clients make sound decisions. Duff & Phelps has more than 1,000 employees serving clients from offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and has more than 100 professionals in the Energy & Mining industry group. Duff & Phelps has extensive experience providing services to renewable energy businesses including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, among others. From solar development portfolios to operating wind farms to coal plant conversions, Duff & Phelps provides the insights and perspective necessary to deliver comprehensive solutions to your valuation needs. Contact David Herr, Global Leader of the Energy & Mining practice at 215-430-6039.

For more information, visit www.duffandphelps.com.

Loeb & Loeb LLP is a multi-service law firm with more than 300 attorneys in five offices in the U.S., including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Nashville and Washington, DC, as well as a representative office in Beijing that services a rapidly growing number of Asian clients. The firm focuses on select core industries and practice areas, rather than endeavoring to be all things to all clients. Loeb & Loeb's Energy Group assists clients on a broad range of energy-related matters ranging from sophisticated transactions and strategic counseling to complex litigation and rate cases before federal and state agencies. With a dynamic combination of transactional, litigation and regulatory capabilities "under one roof," we meet the diverse needs of our energy clients, including issues related to regulation of renewable, electric, nuclear and natural gas enterprises, finance and securities, project development, corporate, M&A, litigation, antitrust, environmental, real estate and tax. Our extensive experience and knowledge of the various energy sectors, the regulatory environment and the competitive landscape, enable us to deliver innovative solutions to the complex challenges confronting the energy industry today.

For more information, visit www.loeb.com.

Luce Forward is at the forefront of renewable energy. We are industry experts offering the complete spectrum of legal services to clients across the industry, from the sponsors, developers, power purchasers, and financing sources of renewable energy projects, to the manufacturers and providers of new technologies that serve the sector. Our renewable energy practice group combines the talents of world class attorneys from varying disciplines to provide comprehensive solutions to the industry's diverse and complex legal problems.

For more information, visit www.luce.com/crest/.

Morgan Lewis combines relevant, practical industry knowledge and comprehensive legal capabilities in advising companies engaged in the explosive growth of renewable energy, clean technology, and corporate sustainability opportunities. We advise utilities, sophisticated investors, project developers, emerging businesses, and other major entities across the energy sector as well as non-energy companies seeking to address their energy needs and sustainability practices. Our team provides a national resource for new and mature companies, advising in areas such as: renewable energy project development and procurement; mergers and acquisitions; project finance and tax strategies; venture capital and early stage financing; novel transactional and regulatory issues; securities law compliance, including climate change-related disclosures; intellectual property; permitting and environmental issues; real estate; antitrust; and employment and executive compensation strategies.

For more information, visit www.morganlewis.com.

PowerFin manages institutional funds for investment into solar projects in North America and abroad. With years of energy finance experience and hundreds of megawatts of renewable projects under our belt, PowerFin knows what it takes to complete solar projects.

In addition to capital, PowerFin provides solar-specific structuring, legal, and engineering expertise to ensure that projects reliably generate electricity and returns. With experience in both the solar upstream and downstream, we enjoy strong relationships with vendors throughout the solar value chain. PowerFin provides our partners with certainty of completion and superior project economics.

PowerFin focuses on projects that are 2MW and larger, but we have the flexibility to partner with developers or buy them out. While we prefer to enter projects once a PPA is in place, we consider projects at all stages. With PowerFin involved , solar projects are properly funded, developed, and completed.

For more information, visit www.powerfinpartners.com.

Reznick Group is ranked among the top 20 accounting firms in the United States, providing accounting, tax and business advisory services to clients nationwide. In addition to other industries, Reznick Group offers a broad array of accounting, tax and business advisory services specific to the renewable energy sector - with services tailored to investors, infrastructure developers and producers of renewable energy power.

For more information, visit www.reznickgroup.com.

In the solar market Soitec is one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of CPV systems based on its highly efficient IEC certified Concentrix™ technology. Soitec has a proven track record with first commercial power plants installed in 2008 and world-leading module efficiencies of almost 30 percent. The company offers high efficiency CPV systems and additional services related to the project development, as well as supporting services for financing and operation & maintenance.

For more information, visit www.soitec.com/.

Swinerton Renewable Energy group is based in San Diego and is complemented by the 14 offices capable of servicing projects throughout the country. We offer a full range of preconstruction, engineering, and construction services for utility scale and distributed generation solar projects. As a 100% employee-owned company, Swinerton is differentiated by the pride and quality services that we provide to renewable energy clients in a transparent partnership. This personal investment in success, along with a 124-year record of outstanding performance, means that our clients know they can count on us for efficiency and integrity to deliver turnkey, utility scale solar projects. They also have confidence in the fact that Swinerton is one of America’s most financially stable general contractors — with an aggregate bonding capacity of $1.5 billion, industry leading safety record, and excellent insurance ratings supported by the top sureties in the nation. As a leader in sustainability and renewable energy development, we are proud to say that we have built more than 30MW of solar to date and more than 150MW currently in design and construction.

For more information, visit www.swinerton.com.

Trina Solar is one of the world's foremost PV companies. Fully vertically integrated from the production of ingots to modules into both mono and multicrystalline technologies, Trina Solar offers high quality modules and solar solutions. Trina Solar has partnerships with leading installers, distributors, utilities and developers in all major PV markets and is listed on the NYSE. Trina Solar's mission is to make the world a better place by providing affordable and reliable solar energy.

For more information, visit www.trinasolar.com.

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with more than 900 attorneys among 14 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its energy practice is a particular strength of the firm. Our attorneys bring 30 years of industry experience, innovation, and a track record of success in regulatory and legislative matters, transactions, mergers and acquisitions, project development, finance, labor and litigation. In addition to representation on traditional energy generation and transmission resources, our experience covers virtually all resources in the renewable energy sector, including wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and biomass. From advocating for and advising on new energy policies to assisting clients in structuring and closing financings and acquisitions/dispositions, negotiating power purchase contracts and providing counsel on cutting-edge tax matters, Winston & Strawn has the experience, capabilities, and integrated legal teams to guide clients through today’s dynamic energy environment.

For more information, visit www.winston.com/.

Silver Sponsors

8minutenergy Renewables is a leading utility-scale solar PV developer that is passionate about helping California develop its renewable energy industry. With over 200 years of collective experience in the field of renewable energy, 8minutenergy delivers complete solar power plant solutions including all aspects of development, financing, engineering, construction, operation and maintenance. Our current portfolio totals over 1,300 Mega Watts (MW) of solar PV power and site control of over 10,000ac of private, disturbed, low-productivity irrigated farmland.

8minutenergy is the first company to receive unconditional CUP approval for a 50MW PV Solar Power Plant in Imperial County. This significant success illustrates the efficiency of our site identification process. 8minutenergy's unique land and economic analysis process helps select optimal power plant sites for accelerated permitting with counties and utilities. This includes dynamic modeling to locate properties that can feed the grid at desired capacity without compromising grid reliability. 8minutenergy helps utilities meet Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requirements through our superior speed-to-market, low development cost structures and risk, and power plant performance optimization. All of our projects are located in California and meet "in-state" utility requirements.

For more information, visit 8minutenergy.com/.

American Wind Capital Company (AWCC) is the leader in financing long-term renewable energy royalty and real estate assets, and invests capital in long-term, contracted renewable energy assets. AWCC is funded by Barclays Natural Resource Investments, NGP Energy Technologies Partners, Fortress Investment Group and other investors. AWCC was founded in 2009 by a management team with a combined 100+ years of renewable energy project development and finance experience. AWCC offers solar developers an opportunity to finance land acquisition, primarily through purchase by AWCC of project real estate and “leaseback” to the solar project company under a standard long-term lease. AWCC partners with solar developers on land acquisition, providing developers the ability to offer an up-front payment to landowners seeking a one-time payment instead of a long-term rent stream. In addition, AWCC invests equity capital directly in renewable energy projects, with a focus on the market for small (<20MW) projects.

For more information, visit americanwindcaptial.com.

Founded in 2004, CP Energy provides financial advisory and asset management services to project sponsors and institutional investors in the energy sector. In the solar energy segment, CP Energy has experience in financing distributed generation portfolios as well as utility scale projects. CP Energy’s product focus is (i) financing of development stage projects, projects under construction and operating projects; (ii) tax advantaged project financing / M&A; (iii) corporate financings / M&A for project sponsors; and (iii) select earlier stage technology financings. Since 2004, CP Energy has advised the tax equity, lender or project sponsor in connection with the financing or disposition of renewable energy projects with an aggregate nameplate capacity in excess of 6,000 MW, and a value in excess of $3.5 billion.

For more information, visit www.cpglb.com/.

Foley & Lardner LLP is a national law firm that provides a full array of legal services to assist the rapidly changing and ever more complicated energy industry. The firm’s experience in the industry dates to its origin and has continued through every stage of development. Our energy practice is very broad and diversified, delivering comprehensive solutions and the leading-edge tools required to serve regulated and unregulated industry participants in this increasingly competitive market. Foley’s wind and solar practices are part of our national Energy Industry Team, advising clients in the development, investment, acquisition, construction, and financing of renewable energy facilities throughout the United States and Canada. Our team-based approach, innovative technology, and focus on value and client service are continually recognized by our clients and the legal industry.

For more information, visit www.foley.com.

GE Energy Financial Services' experts invest globally across the capital spectrum in essential, long-lived, and capital-intensive energy assets that meet the world's energy needs. In addition to capital, GE Energy Financial Services offers the best of GE.'s technical know-how, technology innovation, financial strength, and rigorous risk management. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, the GE business unit helps its customers and GE grow through new investments, strong partnerships, and optimization of its approximately $20 billion in assets.

For more information, visit www.geenergyfinancialservices.com.

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) is a fast-growing, vertically integrated solar power product manufacturer with cost efficient operations based in Jiangxi Province and Zhejiang Province in China and sales and marketing offices in Shanghai, China, Munich, Germany, Queensland, Australia, San Francisco, U.S., Bologna, Italy, Montpellier, France and Zug, Switzerland. JinkoSolar has built a vertically integrated solar product value chain with an integrated annual capacity of approximately1.2GW each for silicon ingots, wafers, solar cells and solar modules as of September 30, 2011. JinkoSolar distributes its photovoltaic products to a diversified customer base in the global PV market; including Italy, Germany, Belgium, Spain, the United States, France, Eastern Europe, China and other countries and regions.

For more information, visit www.jinkosolar.com/.

Premier Power is dedicated to delivering innovative, efficient and reliable solar power systems through our engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) process. Our mission, as a solar power company, is to be a part of the environmental solution by making solar energy possible for businesses and homes. Most importantly, Premier Power is dedicated to delighting our customers.

For more information, visit www.premierpower.com/.

Bronze Sponsors

Competitive Energy Insight (CEI), established in 1997, has developed a suite of mature and highly software products for the analysis of investments in renewable energy applications including solar, wind and biomass projects. We both license these models for your direct use, and use them broadly in our project development consulting practice serving as a bench to support your in-house team. All of the EconExpert tools are Excel-based, making them completely customizable, auditable and adding all of the features of Excel to EconExpert’s powerful features and architecture. Importantly, the EconExpert Models are far more than spreadsheets. Behind each model is powerful Visual Basic programming that provides highly advanced menu/wizard driven functionality taking Excel and your analysis capability to a completely new level. Standardized, accurate and applicable from simple screening to bank quality/investment grade analysis of virtually any project investment, acquisition or divestiture, EconExpert has been applied to literally billions of dollars of energy project investments including on-site generation applications, renewable energy projects and large multi-hundred million dollar central power station investments.

For more information, visit www.CEInsight.com.

Mayer Brown is a leading global law firm with offices in major cities across the Americas, Asia and Europe. Our experience in the solar sector started more than twenty years ago when we worked on Solar Electric Generating System IX (SEGS) in California, one of the first large-scale solar projects in the United States. Our lawyers have represented financiers, sponsors and other project participants on important and cutting edge solar energy projects and financing structures across the globe.

Whether it is utility-scale concentrated solar thermal, photovoltaic, rooftop distributed generation or other solar technology, we have the industry knowledge and experience needed to get deals done anywhere in the world.

We offer local market expertise on a global basis, with offices in each of the major energy and financial centers around the world - London, New York, Hong Kong, and Houston.

For more information, visit www.mayerbrown.com/energy/index.asp?nid=10912.

A full-service financial advisory consulting firm, Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC provides corporate recovery, litigation and investigative services, valuation services, interim management*, operations and performance improvement, distressed m&a and capital raising services**, alternative investment services, due diligence services and technology advisory services. (*Interim management services provided by Mesirow Financial Interim Management, LLC. **Distressed M&A and Capital Raising Services provided by Mesirow Financial Consulting Capital, a division of Mesirow Financial, Inc.)

For more information, visit www.mesirowfinancial.com/.

Solaire Generation is the leading innovator in the market for solar carport structures and systems. Since inception in 2008, Solaire has installed and/or contracted 22 MW of projects, including the US’ largest corporate solar parking system at Dow Jones’ headquarters, and one of world’s largest solar parking installation for the University of Rutgers in New Jersey. Fortune 100 companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Munich Re, Samsung, General Electric, as well as the US Army have chosen Solaire’s patented and patent pending products for their elegant design, durability, and functionality.

Solaire offers a full range of services to meet the needs of its clients starting with design, fabrication, and installation services. In addition, Solaire has the resources to provide full turnkey solutions including project planning and analysis, construction and commissioning, and operations & maintenance.

Solaire’s mission is to provide the best in system canopy design, fabrication, and installation to transform parking lots into beautiful power plants.

For more information, visit www.solairegeneration.com/.

Based in Tempe, Ariz., TÜV Rheinland PTL, LLC is a leading provider of safety and performance testing, and market certification serving every sector of the photovoltaic and solar thermal marketplace, from the supply chain through installation. TÜV Rheinland PTL is a unique partnership between Arizona State University, an institution with more than 50 years of research on solar energy and extensive solar testing know-how, and TÜV Rheinland®, a $1.5 billion global provider of independent testing, assessment, and certification services. With an international network across six continents, TÜV Rheinland® maintains the largest network of Solar Energy Laboratories worldwide, with five major laboratories on three continents.

For more information, visit www.tuvptl.com .

Blattner Energy is a leading electrical generation contractor in North America, providing full engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services. Our focus in the Solar Market is utility scale projects in PV, CSP and CPV. With the experience of over 15,000 MW of renewable energy installations, Blattner is a single source for expertise in all project activities including: permitting procurement, civil and electrical engineering, site civil work, foundation and racking system installation, electrical collection systems, monitoring systems, substations, transmission lines, auxiliary buildings, materials handling, and logistics. Blattner self-performs critical construction activities and directly manages pre-qualified subcontractors, ensuring clients’ key drivers and schedule milestones are consistently met.

For more information, visit www.blattnerenergy.com/.

Signal Energy is a major design/build general contractor in the North American renewable energy industry. We have provided engineering, procurement, and construction services for over 1 GW of renewable energy projects including more than 140 MWs of utility scale solar.

We build turn-key utility scale solar projects throughout the US and Canada, including civil infrastructure, foundations, mechanical erection, electrical collection, substations, interconnection facilities, and transmission lines.

• Self Performance – foundations, mechanical, and electrical
• Financial Strength - renewable arm of one of the nation’s largest general contractors with a bonding capacity of over $400,000,000 and over 44 years of sound business practice
• Industry Leading Safety Program
• Utility Grade Quality Program

For more information, visit www.signalenergy.com.

Luminate is a technically based management consultancy and leading independent engineering firm providing technical, commercial and environmental advisory services and solutions to the power, energy and renewables markets. We provide owner’s advisory and project development assistance; due diligence and independent engineering in support of financing, M&A, and emerging technologies; optimization and corrective action plans; construction and commissioning monitoring; asset monitoring; environmental management; and conflict and restructuring support to clients across the stakeholder spectrum. Our experience spans every conventional form of generation and fuel from fossil to renewable.

For more information, visit www.luminatellc.com/.