More utility-scale PV and CSP projects are under construction today (~800 MW) than have been built in the US to date. The total pipeline of projects under construction or under development exceeds 24 GW, including approximately 8 GW of large-scale PV and CSP projects which developers plan to begin building in the US Southwest over the next 12 to 18 months. Additionally, just one year after launching North America's boldest feed-in tariff program, the Canadian province of Ontario has received over 4.7 GW of applications for PV projects and already has become home to the world's largest PV farm.

Clearly, a new day is dawning for solar power in North America. But much work still needs to be done to transform the gigawatts of projects under development into multiple terawatt-hours of solar power feeding into the grid. PHOTON's 5^th Solar Electric Utility Conference in San Francisco will explore how to make this happen. We will examine solar power's current and future impact on the traditional power-generation sector – from business opportunities to develop new revenue streams to technical and economic challenges associated with both distributed and large-scale solar power – by focusing on:

• Solar sector growth and cost estimates
• Financing and owning solar power plants
• Solar power plant technology options
• Transmission and siting requirements
• Preparing the grid for multiple solar terawatt-hours

PHOTON's Solar Electric Utility Conference is a platform for discussion by all solar power players – including utility representatives, project developers, investors, regulators, members of solar companies and other technology solution providers – involved in the convergence of solar and the traditional electric power sector.

To take a look at the agenda of the previous event in February 2010, please check:
www.photon-expo.com/en/pts_2010_usa/seuc_2010_program.htm