Thursday, December 2, 2010

NREL Meeting - 12/13/10

We look forward to seeing you on Monday, December 13 from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm at the CleanTECH/BIOCOM offices for our Fall CREBs Coalition meeting. Jason Coughlin from the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) has agreed to join us to share his expertise on national trends in CREBs financing and on financing strategies for public agency solar projects. In addition several CREBs members have agreed to share some of their experience with Jason and the group regarding recent and planned projects. We have a full agenda for what should be a great meeting. Lunch will be served. Please confirm your attendance with Shaina Brown at shainab@cleantechsandiego.org. An agenda will be sent in advance. Below are some topics we expect to cover during our meeting:

-NREL Presentation. Our special guest Jason Coughlin plans to share trends on CREBs financing in California and across the country. He will also touch on the use of QECB’s, new market tax credits, some interesting structures combining public bonds and PPAs and more.

-Santee Schools CREBs Project. Karl Christiansen or his colleague will provide insights on the financing, build and launch of the first CREBs project in the region.

-Chula Vista Solar Strategy. Brendan Reed will provide some thoughts on how Chula Vista’s approach to financing solar projects.

-UCSD CREBs RFP. Dave Weil or his colleague will provide details regarding UCSD’s just issued design/build RFP for 900 kW of solar PV over several sites, with a focus on why UCSD elected to use CREBs for these projects.

-IRS CREBS Treatment. Adrianna Kripke from Latham & Watkins will provide an update on how the IRS is approaching revisions to approved CREBs projects.

-QECBs and Streetlighting. Bank of America’s Neal Skiver and CleanTECH’s Marty Turock will discuss the use of QECBs as a possible source of funding for streetlighting retrofits.

-CSI Status. We will discuss the CPUC’s recent activity to limit payments to nonresidential CSI participants.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday, December 13.

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