With thin film technologies maturing, the poly silicon supply bottleneck broken, and solar thermal technology coming on stream, the potential of solar power may be greatly underestimated. Just how fast will solar power emerge to take on a significant share of global energy production? Join a panel of esteemed experts who will discuss this world-changing sector.
Points of discussion to include:
- Which solar sector will show the greatest growth and the greatest returns?
- Is the photovoltaic sector currently overvalued?
- Where do utility scale solar thermal plants make sense?
- How do installation costs and storage costs impact PV adoption?
- Where does government help or hinder the solar energy industry?
- How fast will thin-film manufacturing grow?
- Can crystalline PV maintain the price/performance edge over thin film?
- Are PV concentrator innovations a transitional technology?
Panelists:
- Lyndon Rive, CEO, SolarCity
- Steve Kircher, CEO, Solar Power Inc
- Adam E Bergman, Head of West Coast Cleantech, Jefferies & Co
- Mike DeAngelis, Program Manager, SMUD
- Ed Ring, CEO, Ecoworld, Moderator
 Steve Kircher, President & CEO, SolarPower Inc
Steve is the President & CEO of SolarPower Inc, a leading manufacturer of Solar panels targeted
at residential builders and homeowners. Prior to joining Solarpo-wer Inc, Steve was the CEO and
Chairman of International DisplayWorks, a publicly–traded manufacturer of LCD displays and
modules based in Rocklin, but with significant manufacturing operations overseas in China (over
1800 employees); prior executive roles include: Chairman of Capitol Bay Securities, Inc.
(securities and investment banking) and Capitol Bay Management, Inc. (Investment Company);
founding Director of Burlingame Bancorp and Board Member from 1984 to 1991; Founder of
Spinner Corporation, which engaged in leveraged buyouts of troubled companies; began his
career with Dean Witter in 1975 before joining Bateman, Eichler, Hill & Richards, a regional
investment banking firm in 1978. BA from University of California, San Diego.
 Lyndon Rive – Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Prior to SolarCity, Lyndon founded Everdream, the industry leader in software and services for
large-scale distributed computer management. Lyndon’s leadership and business development
expertise lead Everdream to a market leadership position for which it was acquired by Dell.
Lyndon played a major role in negotiating supply relationships, forming valuable channel
partnerships, and business model development.
 Adam
Bergman, Head of West Coast Cleantech, Jefferies & Co
Adam Bergman is a Senior Vice President at Jefferies & Company, Inc. leading the firm’s west
coast CleanTech investment banking effort. He has been exclusively focused on the CleanTech
sector since 2005 and has executed transactions for Amonix, Distributed Energy, Energy
Conversion Devices, EPV Solar, EnerNOC, EnerSys, Penford, Pentadyne Power, Solar
Integrated Technologies, SunPower and Verenium (formerly Diversa). Prior to joining Jefferies in
2004, Mr. Bergman worked in the Technology Group at JPMorgan and its predecessor firm
Chase H&Q for over three years. Before that, he worked at UBS in the Global Healthcare Group
and at Rothschild, where he focused on M&A and restructuring. He has executed numerous
public and private financing and M&A and transactions domestically and internationally. Mr.
Bergman received an M.A. in International Development from the International University of
Japan and a B.A. in Political Science from the Johns Hopkins University, where he was a
member of Phi Beta Kappa.
 Michael De Angelis, Program Manager, SMUD
Michael DeAngelis is the Program Manager of the Advanced, Renewables and Distributed
Generation Technologies Program at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). Mr.
DeAngelis has actively worked to research, develop and commercialize innovative renewable
energy, energy efficiency and distributed generation technologies for the past 28 years.
Recently, he was the Deputy Chief of the Technology Systems Division of the California Energy
Commission where he initiated and managed several major alternative energy research and
commercialization programs. He formerly worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL) in Colorado, at British Columbia Hydropower Authority, and was a lecturer on alternative
energy at California State University. He has given hundreds of presentations on the subject of
alternative energy, published more than 30 reports or papers, and has Bachelor of Science and
Masters of Science degrees in environmental science and environmental planning (California
State University, Sacramento and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
 Ed Ring, Editor, Ecoworld
Ed Ring founded www.ecoworld.com in 1995, to report on clean technology and the status of
species and ecosystems. EcoWorld's editorial voice has consistently espoused free-market and
property-rights based environmentalism, a philosophy that is needed now more than ever. With
70% of visitors from outside the United States, EcoWorld has developed a global readership. In
1998, Ring was involved in the formation of Trees Water & People, an NGO that supports
reforesting throughout the tropics, where he is still active as a director. Ring has an
undergraduate degree in Political Science from UC Davis, and an MBA in Finance from the
University of Southern California.
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