Agenda

8:00am – 9:00am

   

Registration and Refreshments

9:00am – 9:30am

   

Welcome and Introduction

9:30pm – 10:30am 

   

Panel — Overview of Alternative Energy

     

Panel will focus on key trends and developments affecting the alternative and renewable energy industries, including recent technological progress and overall price/efficiency dynamics.

Moderator:
Christopher Groobey, Partner
Baker & McKenzie

Panelists:
Gary Brandt, VP-Business Development
SatCon Technologies

Daniel Reicher, Managing Director
New Energy Capital


10:30am – 10:45am

   

Break

10:45am – 11:15am

   

Case Presentation
The Ardour Global Alternative Energy Index
Walter Nasdeo, Managing Director
Ardour Capital Investments, LLC

11:15am – 11:45am

   

Company Presentation
Xethanol Corporation
Christopher d'Arnaud-Taylor,  President & CEO

11:45am – 12:15pm

   

Company Presentation
Fuel Cell Energy
Dan Brdar, CEO

12:30pm – 2:00pm

   

Luncheon & Keynote Address
Douglas Faulkner
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Efficiency and Renewable Energy Department of Energy

2:00pm – 2:45pm

   

Panel — Regulatory Trends affecting the
Alternative Energy Space

Panel will bring you up to date on the policy discussions at both the State and Federal levels, provide insight into the current regulatory framework and highlight key regulatory initiatives.

Moderator:
Michael Stosser, Vice President
Ardour Capital

Panelists:
Joseph Parella, Utility Supervisor
Office of Economic Development and Policy CoordinationNew York State Department of Public Service

Stuart Caplan, Partner
White & Case


2:45pm – 3:30pm

   

Panel — Investment Trends Within the
Alternative Energy Space

Panel will explore the investment outlook for the industry, highlight key factors that are likely to contribute to growth and help identify opportunities and pitfalls for sophisticated investors.

Moderator:
Adam Epstein
Enable Capital Management

Panelists:
Peter Fusaro, Chairman
Global Change Associates

Mark Townsend-Cox, CEO
New Energy Fund LP


3:30pm – 3:45pm

   

Closing Remarks

         
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      Speakers
       
     

Gary G. Brandt — Gary Brandt joined SatCon Technology Corporation® (Nasdaq NM: SATC) in January 2006 in the newly created role of Vice President, Corporate Development. Mr. Brandt is a senior business leader with extensive cross-industry and cross-border experience in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Brandt served as Chief Financial Officer of Hydrogenics Corporation, a hydrogen and PEM fuel cell technology company based in Toronto , Canada.

R. Daniel Brdar — Mr. Brdar has been President and Chief Operating Officer of Fuel Cell Energy since September 2005 and is responsible for all manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations for the company’s ultra-clean Direct FuelCell® (DFC®) power plants, which includes the company’s commercial cost-out efforts. Mr. Brdar has over 24 years experience in technology development and new product introductions, including economic and technical analysis specializing in power generation systems. Prior to joining FuelCell Energy, Mr. Brdar held the position of Gas Turbine Product Manager for General Electric Power Systems. Prior to joining GE, he led the U.S. Department of Energy’s Power Systems Product Management organization.

Stuart Caplan — Mr. Caplan is a partner at White & Case and has 20 years of experience in the energy industry. His areas of focus are on electric and natural gas industry restructuring, renewable, fossil fuel and transmission project development, and the regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining White & Case, he chaired the regulatory department of a leading public utility law boutique and holds leadership positions in the energy bar.

Mark Townsend Cox — Mark Townsend Cox is the founder and chief investment officer of New Energy Fund LP, a hedge fund that invests in stocks that are focused on the emerging sustainable energy technology market. Previously, he was a portfolio manager at Pinnacle International Management LLC, an employee owned money manager based in New York, where he was part of an investment team that held the number 1 position for 5 year returns in both Nelson’s “Worlds Best Money Managers” through 2002.

Christopher D’Arnaud-Taylor — Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Xethanol Corporation (XTHN), a leading firm in the area of ethanol production technology. Mr. Taylor was an international merchant banker and entrepreneur and worked with international multinationals in various regions of the world. He was also a Director and President of the private merchant banking firm London Manhattan Securities. He is also a Director of Metamorphix Global Inc and Xeminex. He has an MBA from the London Business School and was an exchange scholar at Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales and Stern School of Business at New York University. He also completed studies at the University of Exeter.

Adam Epstein
— Mr. Epstein, 40, is a co-founder and principal of Enable Capital Management, LLC, a San Francisco-based investment firm which provides capital to publicly-traded growth companies. Mr. Epstein is an attorney by training. He has appeared on CNN and ABC News, among other networks, and has lectured and written extensively about law and entrepreneurship. In November 1999, Mr. Epstein was featured on the cover of The Wall Street Journal.

Douglas L. Faulkner — Mr Faulkner was named Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) on June 24, 2005. He continues to serve as the political deputy and Chief Operating Officer as well. EERE is a $1.2 billion research and development organization which employs about five hundred federal employees in Washington, D.C. and six regional offices. They are supported by thousands of contractors at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and in the private sector.Mr. Faulkner oversees all aspects of EERE operations, with all of the key organizational elements reporting directly to him. The White House, the Congress and the National Academy of Public Administration have recognized the success of these reforms.

Mr. Faulkner now leads three designated Presidential technology initiatives in biomass, solar and hydrogen. Mr. Faulkner has testified on numerous occasions before Congress about renewable energy and energy efficiency. Before assuming his leadership posts in EERE, Mr. Faulkner progressed rapidly at the Central Intelligence Agency and later the Department of Energy. He rose from junior China intelligence analyst in1979 to a nationally-recognized leader in bio-based products and a senior policy advisor to Secretaries of Energy in both Bush Administrations.

Peter Fusaro — Peter C. Fusaro is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron, keynote speaker and energy industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy
and environmental financial markets. He coined the terms “Green Trading and Green Finance.” He has been actively engaged on global warming and clean technology issues since 1990. He is co-principal of the Energy Hedge Fund Center LLC (www.energyehdgefunds.com). Peter has appeared on CNBC, NHK, Bloomberg TV, CNBC Europe and NPR as well as given countless interviews to both print and electronic media on 5 continents. He has written over 500 published articles and written 11 books on energy and environmental trading. These works have been translated into 4 languages.

Chris Groobey — Chris Groobey is a partner in Baker & McKenzie’s Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance practice group, based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His recent transactions include numerous ethanol, biodiesel and landfill gas project financings, an MLP offering relating to coal-sector assets, a power plant in Central America, advising investors with respect to distressed debt strategies, negotiating synthetic PPAs between IPPs and trading desks, and various asset acquisitions.

Walter Nasdeo — Mr. Nasdeo is Managing Director and Head of Energy Technology Ardour Capital Investments, LLC, where he is responsible for equity research. Previously, he was Vice President of research and headed the energy technology team at Bluestone Capital. At Credit Lyonnais Securities he researched consolidating industries. Walter has appeared numerous times on CNBC, Bloomberg, and The BBC. He has also presented at numerous energy technology conferences and been quoted in various publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Business Week, CNNMoney, CNNfn, The Street.Com and Bloomberg News. He has been named a Bulldog Research Award Winning Analyst for earnings accuracy.

Joseph A. Parella, Jr. — Mr. Parella has been with the Department of Public Service since 1981. He is a principal on the Department’s Renewable Energy Team where he has assisted in the development of New York’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS). Among other responsibilities, he has served as the coordinator of the Energy Policy Advisory Committee, a leader of the Retail Access/ESCO Team, and Chief of the Consumer Services Division’s Program and Analysis Section. Prior to joining the Department, Joseph worked for the New York State Energy Office.

Michael A. Stosser — Mr. Stosser is a Managing Director of Ardour Capital Investments and is responsible for transaction origination, structuring and execution. Michael joins Ardour Capital from Heller Ehrman, a law firm, where he was a Partner representing clients in the development, construction and sale of cogeneration and other power generation projects, as well as natural gas pipeline facilities. Prior to entering private practice Michael was with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where, as Assistant General Counsel for Rulemaking and Environmental Law he was responsible for the Commission’s regulations in oil and gas, electric power and hydroelectric power. He also coordinated Congressional investigations and responses by FERC to Congress.

       
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