The top financiers of renewable energy in the U.S. will be gathering in late September at the third annual Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) - West, on Sept. 29-30, 2010 at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco. 

The two-day event will convene an anticipated 400 senior financiers, investors, clean energy executives and policy makers from across the U.S. to discuss the opportunities for venture capital, private equity and project finance in clean energy technology companies.

“The challenge of financing renewable energy projects and companies have never been greater than today", said ACORE President Michael Eckhart. "So ACORE and Euromoney are assembling the top sources of capital to present where and how they are putting their money, and why. If you are involved in raising or investing capital, this conference will give you a road map to success".
 

The conference will feature representatives from top investment institutions – Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch – who will speak on project financing and opportunities in global financial markets that impact clean energy in the U.S. with a particular focus on projects in the Western U.S.

Featured speaker Matt Rogers, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, will address current policy initiatives that drive investment in the clean energy sector at the federal level.  Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Environmental Initiatives at Google, will offer a corporate perspective and outline his company’s Clean Energy 2030 proposal for reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. 

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