Topics for Discussion

Nuclear New Build

• Licensing
• Construction
• Financing
• Spent Fuel Disposition

Challenges of Fossil Fuels

• The new US natural gas paradigm: 
  The shale formation development revolution
• Natural Gas Markets:  Price trends and volatility
• The impact of gas supply on LNG, gas storage, pipelines and CCGT projects
• The regulatory dimension
• IGCC and IGCC with carbon capture
• Other high efficiency "clean" coal technologies
• Carbon capture

Renewables

• The political mandate – Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards
• Prospects for economic viability
• The technical and financial dimension of transmission

Financing Strategies

• Liquidity for nuclear new build and refinance
• DOE loan guarantees
• The role of foreign financiers – of export credit agencies and development financiers
• To project finance or not to project finance
• Federal incentives
• Construction and performance risk sharing and its impact upon financing

Event Details

Date – April 7, 2010

Registration – 3:30pm

Start of Forum – 4:00pm

Cocktails and Canapés – 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Address – 1221 Avenue of the Americas
(bet. 48th & 49th Streets), New York, NY  (area map)

RSVP – Matthew Rush (matthew.rush@allenovery.com)

Seating is limited. Once registered, you will be invited to submit questions in advance to help us tailor the session to be as interactive as possible.

Forum Faculty

Mitchell Silk – Moderator

Partner, Allen & Overy Projects, Energy & Infrastructure practice