PRESENTED BY THE UNIVERSITY O F TEXAS SC H OOL O F LAW AND UTCLE THE OIL, GAS AND ENERGY RESOURCES LAW SECTION OF THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS

THE PREMIER GATHERING OF KEY PARTICIPANTS IN TEXAS WIND, SOLAR AND GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT

February 2, 2010 – Fundamentals February 3-4, 2010 – Institute Austin Convention Center Austin, Texas

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Select on Registration Form Special Legal Issues When Renewables and Employment Opportunities in the Wind, Oil and Gas Projects are Jointly Developed Solar and Other Renewable Sectors WIND, SOLAR AND A discussion of the impact of the development of This session covers the growth of employment in RENEWABLES FUNDAMENTALS wind and other renewable energy sources on the the renewable energy sector including finance, oil, gas and mineral industries, illustrating some construction, accounting, engineering, operations, existing conflicts between mineral lessees and and maintenance. The session concludes with Presiding Officer: renewable energy lessees, as well as potential some tips on applying for jobs in the renewable John Moore, Consultant to Power Industry, areas of dispute in concurrent development. energy sector. Austin, TX Roderick E. Wetsel, Wetsel & Carmichael, LLP, Moderator: Sweetwater, TX John Hoffner, CH2M Hill, Austin, TX 12:00 p.m. Registration Opens Panelists: Includes light refreshments. 2:50 p.m. .33 hr Jose Beceiro, Austin Chamber of Commerce, Austin, TX Steve Taylor, Applied Materials, Austin, TX Q&A Session with Land Use and Leasing 12:30 p.m. Speakers 5:45 p.m. Adjourn Wildcatting for Wind: The Texas Experience A 20-minute opportunity to ask the presenters of the previous sessions questions regarding land use from Turbine to Market WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 3, 2010 This short documentary takes you onto working development. wind farms in the Sweetwater, TX region, from Select on Registration Form ground operations to the top of the turbines, to 3:10 p.m. Break explain construction, generation, operation and WIND, SOLAR AND interconnection. 3:25 p.m. .50 hr RENEWABLES INSTITUTE The Rise of Private Transmission for 1:15 p.m. .50 hr Renewables: Developer and Landowner Presiding Officer: Perspectives Lisa Chavarria, Stahl, Bernal & Davies, LLP, The State of Wind and Solar Development Moving renewable energy from largely rural Austin, TX in Texas generating locales to major cities with highest The Texas market continues to lead the country demand (and rates) is a critical challenge for the 8:00 a.m. Registration Opens in wind development and is beginning to see a development community and proponents of wind Includes continental breakfast. range of solar generation deployment. A summary and solar. This session addresses the recent use of current wind generation development levels, of private transmission lines as an alternative to location, and identification of key market drivers is traditional regulated transmission, and contrasts 8:45 a.m. Welcoming Remarks presented. Ongoing solar generation development is and compares key issues, such as access, capacity, summarized at both the utility scale and commercial right-of-way, speed of build out, and costs. customer levels. KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Gregory S. Friend, McElroy, Sullivan & Miller, L.L.P., John Moore, Consultant to Power Industry, Austin, TX Austin, TX David Parquet, Pattern Energy Group LP, 8:55 a.m. Fundamental Land Use, Leasing, San Francisco, CA Introduction of Federal Energy Regulatory and Property Rights Issues Commission Chairman Jon Wellinghoff for Renewable Development 3:55 p.m. .50 hr Chairman Barry Smitherman Public Utility Commission of Texas, Austin, TX 1:45 p.m. .83 hr Small Scale Solar From the Ground Up: The Nuts and Bolts In the trenches: Highlights and lessons learned 9:00 a.m. .67 hr of Renewable Energy Project Land Rights – from installing over 900 small scale solar projects Landowner and Developer Perspectives in Austin. Federal Transmission Initiatives for Leslie Libby, City of Austin - Austin Energy, Austin, TX An overview of key issues involving land rights Renewables: The View from FERC and leases for renewable energy projects from the Chairman Wellinghoff shares his views on new perspectives of a landowner and a developer. 4:25 p.m. .50 hr transmission initiatives and proposals that affect wind, solar and other renewable energy. Karen E. Jones, Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, OR Small Scale Wind Gregory S. Friend, McElroy, Sullivan & Miller, L.L.P., Chairman Jon Wellinghoff Opportunities, technologies, incentives and Austin, TX Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), regulatory issues for distributed small wind at Gary Foster, Little F Ranch, Sterling City, TX Washington, DC homes, ranches and businesses. Andy Kruse, Southwest Windpower, Flagstaff, AZ

phone 512-475-6700 fax 512-475-6876 www.utcle.org 9:40 a.m. 1.00 hr WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 3:30 p.m. .83 hr Crossing the Line: Regional Challenges Presiding Officer: Will Texas be the Next Giant in Geothermal? and Initiatives in Exporting Wind, Solar Karl R. Rábago, City of Austin – Google is working on a wide variety of ways to and Other Renewables across State and Austin Energy, Austin, TX improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions International Lines and develop low-cost renewable energy and has A panel discussion of the unique challenges faced Follow the Money: identified Texas as a potential leading producer by areas such as the Panhandle and El Paso regions DOE Treasury Loan Guarantees, of geothermal energy. The Southern Methodist which possess an abundance of wind and solar Grants, and Credit Programs University Geothermal Laboratory is a renowned resources but lack the infrastructure necessary to leader in geothermal research and in 2008, received harness and deliver those resources to load. The a major grant from Google to support their work on panel also discusses policy initiatives such as SPP’s LUNCHEON PRESENTATION geothermal resource assessments. Representatives X Plan and the Midwest’s Green Power Express. from SMU, Google and a firm leading in Moderator: 12:10 p.m. Pick up Box Lunch commercializing new geothermal concepts provide Julie Caruthers Parsley, Parsley Coffin Renner LLP, an overview of geothermal geology, prospects and Austin, TX Included in conference registration fee. economics in Texas. Panelists: Charles Baron, Google.org, Climate and Energy, Hon. John Cook, Mayor of El Paso, El Paso, TX 12:30 p.m. .75 hr Mountain View, CA Bruce Rew, Southwest Power Pool, Little Rock, AR The Financing of Renewable Energy Projects David D. Blackwell, Southern Methodist University, Beth Soholt, Wind on the Wires, St. Paul, MN Department of Geology and Geological Services, in a Post-Stimulus Environment Dallas, TX A discussion of how developers are financing their 10:40 a.m. Break Martin Kay, Texatherm Energy, Inc., Houston, TX projects in this post-stimulus market, through the use of DOE loan guarantees and Treasury cash 10:55 a.m. .50 hr grants, including the opportunities, challenges and 4:20 p.m. 1.17 hrs CREZ 2010–2013 pitfalls for effective use of these programs. Developers Panel In 2008 the Texas Public Utility Commission Adam S. Umanoff, Chadbourne & Parke LLP, A discussion of the latest market trends and issues approved a 2,300-mile transmission plan to deliver Los Angeles, CA facing wind and solar developers from some of the Douglas Schultz, U.S. Department of Energy, Loan energy to customers in Texas from five “Competitive market leaders. Renewable Energy Zones” in West Texas and the Guarantee Program, Washington, DC (Invited) Moderator: Texas Panhandle. The target date for completion John Moore, Consultant to Power Industry, Austin, TX of this massive renewable energy project is the end 1:30 p.m. Break Panelists: of 2013. This session reviews the plan’s progress to Michael Bowring, NextEra Energy Resources, date and identifies the challenges that remain. 1:45 p.m. 1.00 hr Juno Beach, FL Steven Baron, Consulting and Legal Services, Austin, TX Glenn Allen Hodges, Pattern Energy Group LP, Solar Development and Deployment: Austin, TX Technology, Economics and Short-Term 11:25 a.m. .75 hr Shalini Ramanathan, RES Americas Inc., Austin, TX Market Potential Howard Taylor, Tessera Solar, Houston, TX The Impact of Electricity Markets and Pricing This session opens with a 30-minute overview and Patrick Woodson, E.ON Climate and Renewables, on Renewables briefing on solar technologies and deployment Austin, TX An examination of select issues of electricity trends and continues with a follow-up discussion market prices – particularly nodal pricing – relating on the Texas solar market including the views and 5:30 p.m. Adjourn to Sponsored Reception to renewables, including: pricing variations over goals of market participants. the time of the day and location; day-ahead versus Lisa Frantzis, Navigant Consulting, Inc., Burlington, MA real-time prices; negative prices, both locally and Commentators: THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 4, 2010 ERCOT-wide, with the CREZ transmission devel- John Bonnin, CPS Energy, San Antonio, TX opment; and the interaction of wind and solar on Eric Graham, Dell, Inc., Round Rock, TX Presiding Officer: prices. The session concludes with commentary Judith Kim, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR John K. Arnold, Locke Lord Bissell & from Dan Jones on the impact of renewables on Liddell LLP, Houston, TX 2:45 p.m. Break electricity markets and, as time permits, a short Q&A opportunity. 7:45 a.m. Conference Room Opens 3:00 p.m. .50 hr Ross Baldick, The University of Texas, Department of Includes continental breakfast. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Austin, TX Integrating Renewables into the Grid: Commentator: The New Texas “TRIP” Dan L. Jones, Electric Reliability Council of Texas The rules for building and operating wind farms 8:00 a.m. .50 hr (ERCOT), Austin, TX and other variable generation technologies in Let the Sun Shine In! Breakfast with Solar Texas are rapidly evolving. This session explores the Texas Renewables Integration Plan (TRIP), Technology Companies ERCOT’s blueprint to manage the interconnection Join us for an informal panel discussion breakfast and operation of 20 gigawatts of wind and other with three leading solar technology companies. renewable generation technologies. The overview Moderator: includes recent, major changes to ERCOT system Mark Kapner, City of Austin - Austin Energy, Austin, TX planning activities, grid operations procedures, Panelists: market design elements, and new compliance Randy Etheridge, Tessera Solar, Houston, TX metrics for renewable generators, as well as Iga Hallberg, HelioVolt Corporation, Austin, TX previews possible future changes in these key areas. Mark Bruce, MJB Energy Consulting, Round Rock, TX

phone 512-475-6700 fax 512-475-6876 www.utcle.org severance of property rights, the accommodation 8:30 a.m. .33 hr 2:30 p.m. 1.00 hr of oil and gas development, and siting issues. Which Way Do We Go? Grants, ITC and Moderator: Out-of-State Wind Deals: Wind Energy Laws, PTC for Renewable Energy Projects Lisa Chavarria, Stahl, Bernal & Davies, LLP, Austin, TX Incentives and Rules in Selected States Panelists: A description of the Treasury grant, investment tax An examination of 17 key wind states’ wind energy Lila C. Marsh, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas, TX credit and production tax credit programs available laws, incentives, and rules relating to project Bonnie McMurtry, Andrews Kurth LLP, Houston, TX to renewable energy projects and the financing development and operations. Topics covered Roderick E. Wetsel, Wetsel & Carmichael, LLP, structures using these programs. The session include economic and tax incentives, wind energy Sweetwater, TX lease and easement laws, renewable portfolio provides guidance for selecting the best match for Robert P. Wright, Baker Botts L.L.P., Houston, TX the circumstances of a project and its sponsors. standards, and related development issues. A Stephen Krebs, Baker Botts L.L.P., Houston, TX detailed paper by Brent Stahl and Lisa Chavarria is 12:00 p.m. .50 hr included in the course materials. Moderator: 8:50 a.m. .50 hr Federal Legislative Update: Wind, Solar and Brent G. Stahl, Stahl, Bernal & Davies, LLP, Austin, TX Other Renewables Panelists: Understanding and Working with Revenue A report on the current status of federal legislation Reed Armstrong, Iberdrola Renewables, Austin, TX Streams: Key Issues in Negotiating and related to renewable energy policy. Kevin Borgia, The Illinois Wind Energy Association Drafting Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) Monty Humble, Mesa Power Group, Dallas, TX (IWEA), Chicago, IL An analysis of key issues and typical points of Robert Crowell, E.ON Climate and Renewables, conflict that arise in negotiating and drafting power THURSDAY AFTERNOON Chicago, IL purchase agreements. Vanessa C. Kellogg, Horizon Wind Energy, Houston, TX Teresa A. Hill, Stoel Rives LLP, Boise, ID Presiding Officer: Theodore D. Matula, Duke Energy, Austin, TX William H. Holmes, Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, OR Michael G. Grable, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Austin, TX 3:30 p.m. .75 hr 9:20 a.m. .50 hr Storage Technologies: Batteries, Thermal KEYNOTE Renewable Project Acquisitions: Pitfalls, Tips LUNCHEON PRESENTATION and Compressed Air – Where Are We? and Best Practices The opportunity to leverage and increase the value A checklist and discussion of the pitfalls, tips and of intermittent generation from wind and solar 12:30 p.m. Pick up Box Lunch best practices for renewable project acquisitions. resources is dependent upon the ability to store the Dahl C. Thompson, Andrews Kurth LLP, Houston, TX Included in conference registration fee. initial output in a resource that can be dispatched. Considerable industry research and development 9:50 a.m. Break efforts are being focused on key technologies. 12:45 p.m. Moderator: 10:05 a.m. .75 hr Introduction Pat Wood III, Wood3 Resources, Houston, TX Michael G. Grable, Electric Reliability Council of Texas Panelists: Wind, Water, Oil, Gas and Whitetails: A (ERCOT), Austin, TX Carlos Coe, Xtreme Power, Kyle, TX Comparison of Property Rights and Theories Robert B. Schainker, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA A comparison of the judicial treatment of rights in 12:50 p.m. .92 hr water, oil, gas and game animals, all of which have 4:15 p.m. Adjourn significant economic and monetary value to a land- Texas Policy Makers’ Perspectives owner, but which frequently cross over or beneath Two leading Texas policy makers address a property boundaries. Which, if any, of these judicial range of public issues that are contributing both approaches may be applied to wind and why a enhancements and challenges to the development WILDCATTING determination of rights in wind is both inevitable of renewable energy in Texas. and legally important, especially in light of deeds Chairman Barry Smitherman, Public Utility Commission FOR WIND: that purport to sever wind rights from other of Texas, Austin, TX interests in land. Rep. Burt R. Solomons, Texas House of Representatives, The Texas Experience from Ernest E. Smith, The University of Texas School of Law, Carrollton, TX Turbine to Market Austin, TX This short documentary on DVD takes you 1:45 p.m. Break onto working wind farms in the Sweetwater, TX 10:50 a.m. 1.17 hrs region from ground operations to the top of the turbines, to explain construction, generation, Legal Issues Related to Wind, Solar and 2:00 p.m. .50 hr operation, and interconnection. DVDs will be Geothermal Development on sale at the conference site for the special As the wind industry matures, practitioners Regulatory Enforcement Challenges for conference price of $10. face new legal issues related to wind project Renewable Developments development and operation and are expanding Increases in renewable generation capacity and their practices into solar and geothermal. At the potential development have heightened interest in center of these renewable energy transactions are the effect of renewable energy on electric reliability surface and subsurface rights and the instruments and markets. This has coincided with expanded necessary to secure those rights. This session federal jurisdiction and enforcement of national focuses on issues related to surface and subsurface electric reliability standards. This session explores leases including due diligence considerations, the enforcement jurisdiction, procedures and standards as they relate to renewable energy in Texas. Elizabeth Drews, Brown McCarroll, L.L.P., Austin, TX

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REED ARMSTRONG CARLOS COE WILLIAM H. HOLMES THEODORE D. MATULA BETH SOHOLT Iberdrola Renewables Xtreme Power Stoel Rives LLP Duke Energy Wind on the Wires Austin, TX Kyle, TX Portland, OR Austin, TX St. Paul, MN ROSS BALDICK HON. JOHN COOK MONTY HUMBLE BONNIE MCMURTRY REP. BURT R. SOLOMONS The University of Texas Mayor of El Paso Mesa Power Group Andrews Kurth LLP Texas House of Representatives Department of Electrical and El Paso, TX Dallas, TX Houston, TX Carrollton, TX Computer Engineering Austin, TX ROBERT CROWELL DAN L. JONES JOHN MOORE BRENT G. STAHL E.ON Climate and Renewables Electric Reliability Council Consultant to Power Industry Stahl, Bernal & Davies, LLP CHARLES BARON Chicago, IL of Texas (ERCOT) Austin, TX Austin, TX Google.org Austin, TX Climate and Energy ELIZABETH DREWS DAVID PARQUET HOWARD TAYLOR Mountain View, CA Brown McCarroll, L.L.P. KAREN E. JONES Pattern Energy Group LP Tessera Solar Austin, TX Stoel Rives LLP San Francisco, CA Houston, TX STEVEN BARON Portland, OR Consulting and Legal Services RANDY ETHERIDGE JULIE CARUTHERS PARSLEY STEVE TAYLOR Austin, TX Tessera Solar MARK KAPNER Parsley Coffin Renner LLP Applied Materials Houston, TX City of Austin – Austin Energy Austin, TX Austin, TX JOSE BECEIRO Austin, TX Austin Chamber of Commerce GARY FOSTER SHALINI RAMANATHAN DAHL C. THOMPSON Austin, TX Little F Ranch MARTIN KAY RES Americas Inc. Andrews Kurth LLP Sterling City, TX Texatherm Energy, Inc. Austin, TX Houston, TX DAVID D. BLACKWELL Houston, TX Southern Methodist University LISA FRANTZIS BRUCE REW ADAM S. UMANOFF Deptartment of Geology and Navigant Consulting, Inc. VANESSA C. KELLOGG Southwest Power Pool Chadbourne & Parke LLP Geological Services Burlington, MA Horizon Wind Energy Little Rock, AR Los Angeles, CA Houston, TX Dallas, TX GREGORY S. FRIEND ROBERT B. SCHAINKER CHAIRMAN JON JOHN BONNIN McElroy, Sullivan & Miller, L.L.P. JUDITH KIM Electric Power Research WELLINGHOFF CPS Energy Austin, TX Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Institute Federal Energy Regulatory San Antonio, TX Bentonville, AR Palo Alto, CA Commission (FERC) ERIC GRAHAM Washington, DC KEVIN BORGIA Dell, Inc. STEPHEN KREBS DOUGLAS SCHULTZ (INVITED) The Illinois Wind Energy Round Rock, TX Baker Botts L.L.P. U.S. Department of Energy RODERICK E. WETSEL Association (IWEA) Houston, TX Loan Guarantee Program Wetsel & Carmichael, LLP IGA HALLBERG Washington, DC Sweetwater, TX Chicago, IL HelioVolt Corporation ANDY KRUSE MICHAEL BOWRING Austin, TX Southwest Windpower ERNEST E. SMITH PAT WOOD III Flagstaff, AZ The University of Texas School Wood3 Resources NextEra Energy Resources TERESA A. HILL Juno Beach, FL of Law Houston, TX Stoel Rives LLP LESLIE LIBBY Austin, TX MARK BRUCE Boise, ID City of Austin - Austin Energy PATRICK WOODSON Austin, TX CHAIRMAN BARRY E.ON Climate and Renewables MJB Energy Consulting GLENN ALLEN HODGES Round Rock, TX SMITHERMAN Austin, TX Pattern Energy Group LP LILA C. MARSH Public Utility Commission LISA CHAVARRIA Austin, TX Vinson & Elkins LLP of Texas ROBERT P. WRIGHT Stahl, Bernal & Davies, LLP Dallas, TX Austin, TX Baker Botts L.L.P. JOHN HOFFNER Houston, TX Austin, TX CH2M Hill Austin, TX

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LISA CHAVARRIA—CO-CHAIR MARK BRUCE MICHAEL G. GRABLE BONNIE MCMURTRY ERNEST E. SMITH Stahl, Bernal & Davies, LLP MJB Energy Consulting Electric Reliability Council Andrews Kurth LLP The University of Texas School Austin, TX Round Rock, TX of Texas (ERCOT) Houston, TX of Law Austin, TX Austin, TX KARL R. RÀBAGO—CO-CHAIR KIMBERLEE SMITH CENTERA COLIN MEEHAN City of Austin - Austin Energy AES Wind Generation, Inc. RICHARD GRUBER Environmental Defense Fund CHAIRMAN BARRY Austin, TX San Diego, CA First Solar, Inc. Austin, TX SMITHERMAN Tempe, TX Public Utility Commission DAVID E. ADELMAN TREY COX M. BRADFORD MOODY of Texas The University of Texas School Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox, L.L.P. TERESA A. HILL Watt Beckworth Thompson Austin, TX of Law Dallas, TX Stoel Rives LLP & Henneman, L.L.P. Austin, TX Boise, ID Houston, TX BRENT G. STAHL KARA CUBBAGE Stahl, Bernal & Davies, LLP REED ARMSTRONG RES Americas Inc. GLENN ALLEN HODGES JOHN MOORE Austin, TX Iberdrola Renewables Austin, TX Pattern Energy Group LP Consultant to Power Industry Austin, TX Austin, TX Austin, TX ADAM S. UMANOFF ROY DANIEL Chadbourne & Parke LLP JOHN K. ARNOLD Energy Storage and Power LLC WILLIAM H. HOLMES PHILIP MOORE Los Angeles, CA Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Bridgewater, NJ Stoel Rives LLP RES Americas Inc. Houston, TX Portland, OR Austin, TX RODERICK E. WETSEL ELIZABETH DREWS Wetsel & Carmichael, LLP ROSS BALDICK Brown McCarroll, L.L.P. MONTY HUMBLE HEATHER OTTEN Sweetwater, TX The University of Texas Austin, TX Mesa Power Group Invenergy LLC Department of Electrical and Dallas, TX Austin, TX STEPHEN WIELAND Computer Engineering MICHAEL J. ESPOSITO Vestas Americas Austin, TX The University of Texas School STEPHEN KREBS WALTER J. REID Denver, CO of Law Baker Botts L.L.P. Austin, TX STEVEN BARON Austin, TX Houston, TX PAT WOOD III Consulting and Legal Services KARL P. RICHTER Wood3 Resources Austin, TX RICH E. GERMAIN ROBERT BOB LUKEFAHR Element Markets Houston, TX ConocoPhillips Stirling Energy Systems (SES) Houston, TX ANDY BOWMAN Houston, TX Scottsdale, AZ PATRICK WOODSON Austin, TX NED ROSS E.ON Climate and Renewables THEODORE D. MATULA Direct Energy Austin, TX Duke Energy Austin, TX Austin, TX REGISTRATION FOR 2010 WIND, SOLAR AND RENEWABLES

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