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5th EQ Cleantech Finance & Tech Summit (EQCFTS) Mumbai, 22-23 February 2017 at JW Marriott, Juhu Lanyard Partner - Jinko Solar Risk Mitigation Partner - UL Session Partner - Mahindra Susten Session Formats Panel Discussion Audience Q&A & Interaction 22 February 2017 08:00 Onwards Registrations & Networking Begins 09:30 - 11:30 Inaugural Session Keynote Speaker Dr.Raman Nanda, CEO, SB Energy (SoftBank Group)* Keynote Speaker Mr.Kuldeep Jain, MD, CleanMax Solar Keynote Speaker Mr.Rakesh Tiwary, CFO, Adani Solar Guest of Honor C. Narsimhan, Ex. MP, Chairman-Raasi Group Chetan Sharma, President Finance & Strategy, Essel Infra Gaurav Sood*, Managing Director, Solaire Direct Pranav Mehta, Chairman, National Solar Energy Federation of India 11:30 - 12:00 Networking Tea/Coffee Break 12:00 - 13:00 Session on REWA Ultra Mega Solar Project Track 1 Ashvini Kumar*, MD, SECI (Special Keynote Address) Manish Singhal, Head - Business Development (EPC), Mahindra Susten Harish Kapoor, Group President, Acme Brijesh Gupta, CEO Renewable Energy Business, AMPL Cleantech Pvt. Ltd. Norberto Cuenca Candel, Head of Business Development - South Asia, Enel Green Power India Kapil Maheshwari, CEO, Hinduja Renewables Pvt Ltd Pranav Master, Associate Director, CRISIL Research Vivek Bhardwaj, Jinko Solar Joy Saxena ED - Finance Vikram Solar 12:00 - 13:00 Technology Session Track 2 Nitin Sharma, Vice President - Business Head Solar & Energy Storage, Raychem RPG Rajendra Shrivastav, President AES India and Market Business Leader for AES Corporation Gurpreet Chugh, Consulting Director, ICF Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. Abhay Tilwankar, Head-Analytics, Mahindra Susten Mayank Shah, CFO, Waaree Energies 13:00 - 14:00 Networking Lunch 14:00 - 14:45 Technology Session Amit Barve, Vice President – Business Development & Marketing, Enerparc Rahul Khatri, Technical Manager, DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions Anjan Ghosh, Business head – EPC, Ujaas Energy Hiten G. Parekh, Head, Everest Solar 14:45 - 15:30 Technology Session Sachin Agarwal, AGM- Power Infra & RE, Godrej & Boyce Sachin Jain, Co-Founder & CEO, Oriano Solar Shailesh Vaidya, CEO, Scorpius Trackers Pvt. Ltd 14:45 - 15:30 Dr. Gundu Sabde, Founder & Chairman, Relyon Solar 15:30 - 16:00 Networking Tea/Coffee Break 16:00 - 16:45 Investment Banking & Equity Finance Rajnesh Trivedi, Senior Director - Sustainable Investment Banking, Yes Bank Arun Joshi, Senior Associate, Trilegal Pankaj Sehgal, Managing Director, SUN Group Balwant Joshi, Managing Director, Idam Infra Sanjeev Gupta, MD, Nexgen Financial Services 16:45 - 17:30 International Finance Anchit Gupta, Director - Business Development, Focal Energy Amit Mehta, Assistant Vice President, Greenstone Advisory Tarun Sharma*, Managing Director, New Enterprise Associates India Mukund Santhanam, Corporate Finance, Deutsche Bank AG Alipt Sharma, Principal, GEF Advisors India 23 February 2017 09:30 - 10:30 Developers Session 1 Manu Shrivastav*, Chairperson RUMS & Principal Sec. NRED, MP (Special Keynote Address) Bhanu Mehrotra*, IFC Advisor for RUMS (Special Keynote Address) Murali Subramanian*, COO, Ostro Energy (Special Address on RUMS) Vignesh Nandkumar, Vice President for Corporate Development for Asia Pacific, Terraform Global Norberto Cuenca Candel, Head of Business Development - South Asia, Enel Green Power India Ojasvi Gupta, Vice President – Commercial, Amplus Solar Punit K Goyal, Co Founder & Director, PLG Clean Energy Projects Karan Suri, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Avinash Bapat, Chief Consultant - Renewable Energy, IL & FS 10:30 - 11:30 Developers Session 2 Rajsekhar Buddhavarpu, IL & FS Anil Mehta Nikunj Ghodawat, Head – Finance, Cleanmax Solar Pradeep Patil, Head Business Development, Enrich Energy Anuvrat Joshi, Director, Cleantech Solar 11:30 - 12:00 Networking Tea/Coffee Break 12:00 - 13:00 Debt Financing Rakesh Kalsi, AVP, PTC India Financial Services Ashwini Kumar, Head – Credit Underwriting Cleantech, Tata CleanTech Capital Ltd Shreetama Ghosh, Senior Manager- Strategic Initiatives & Product, L&T Infra Finance Pawan Kumar Agrawal, Sr. President-Corporate Finance, YES BANK Ltd Arun Sarathy, Senior Manager – Wholesale Business, L&T Infrastructure Finance Kajal Kiran Kalanauria, Manager, SBI Capital Markets Rishi Agarwal*, Zonal Head- Project & Structured Finance, Aditya Birla Finance Karan Mitroo, Partner, Luthra & Luthra 13:00 - 14:00 Networking Lunch - UL Sponsored 14:00-14:10 Welcome & Corporate UL Presentation Suresh Sugavanam, Vice President & MD - UL South Asia 14:10-14:25 Overview of UL's Renewable Services Portfolio for Lenders & Developers Michael C. Brower, PhD, President & Chief Technical Officer, AWS Truepower LLC - a UL company 14:25-14:40 Risks/Challenges in Financing a Renewable Project Mukund Santhanam*, Corporate Finance, Deutsche Bank AG Rajnesh Trivedi*, Senior Director - Sustainable Investment Banking, Yes Bank 14:40-14:55 Asserting Bankability of a Renewable Project Gururajan Velu, Director, Technical, AWS Truepower - a UL Company 14:55-15:10 Effective Due Dilligence of a Wind Project Francis Suresh Balan, Senior Manager, DD, AWS Truepower - a UL Company 15:10-15:25 Technology Trends & Its Global Implications - Solar Project Sriparn Saurabh, Engineering Leader, Solar UL India Pvt. Ltd. 15:25-15:40 Achieving Financial Closure and Beyond: From Developers Perspective Rajsekhar Buddhavarpu, IL & FS 15:40-16:00 Q&A 16:00-16:15 Tea Break - UL Sponsored 16:15-16:55 Panel Discussion - Risk Assessment & Mitigation Prashant Sinha, Head Credit (Wholesale Banking) - L&T Finance Sreeni Krishnamurthy, President Asia Pacific, AWS Truepower, a UL Company Ojasvi Gupta, Vice President – Commercial, Amplus Solar Ashish Tiwari, Director (Operations) - Energon 16:55-17:00 Closing comments & Vote of Thanks Peeyush Gupta, Director - Sales & Marketing, UL South Asia Discussion Topics New & Current Topics 1 Green Bonds....Case Study of Renew Power Raising through 6% Green Bonds 2 Debentures...Tata Raising Rs.1200 Crores @ 8% for Welspun Solar Assets Technologies...New Technologies : 1500V , PERC, HJT, Glass-Glass, N Type Cells / BiFacial Cells, IBD cells, 400WP 3 Modules, Multi Bus Bar, Perovskite Solar Cells etc... 4 Trade Wars...Recent EU Case of withdrawing Anti Dumping Duties against Chinese Solar Panels/Cells 5 Operation & Maintenance, Asset Management, Trackers...Case Studies, Scenerio of Falling Module Prices and changing technologies..., O&M, Yield Analysis in 6 various states, Capex, Different Players & Technologies, Ecosystem Required. 7 Transmission & Evacuation of Solar Power...Green Corridors 8 Analysis of Post Budget Implications and Further expectations from the Government 9 Section 80 IA withdrawal Rooftop Solar 1 Key trends, opportunities & challenges in upscaling & mainstreaming rooftop solar energy 2 Policies & regulation of SECI, central & state government 3 Net metering, gross metering, grid infrastructure for grid connected projects Learn about various business & finance models and various aspects such as return expectations, risks, 4 insurance, lending, etc. 5 Technology & project showcase, case studies, evaluation of operational projects, O & M Off grid solar applications such as solar water pumping, home lighting, rural & agriculture applications, 6 gadgets, mini & micro grids 7 Energy storage : technology, costs, performance, trends 8 Solar PV diesel hybrid systems & technologies, markets 9 Solar power in public sector, defense, off shore areas Electrical Energy Storage (EES) What is the Need & Importance of Electrical Energy Storage (EES) Technologies in India and specifically in 1 reference to Renewable Power Generation 2 What is Expected from Government to promote EES in India 3 What kind of ecosystem is needed to promote manufacturing of EES in India 4 What are the various applications, advantages, disadvantages of ESS 5 Kindly comment of Energy Storage as a game changer, its technology, cost trends…etc… 6 What are the various technologies & types of Energy Storage Systems 7 Cost of Solar + EES in next 3 years will hit grid parity in next 3 years ... Do you agree 8 What is the cost and technology roadmap for ESS in short term, medium term and long term 9 Kindly share any noteworthy EES project, case study etc... 10 Feel Free to add / modify / delete / raise any question INVESTORS PERSPECTIVE 1 What do investors seek for when looking to invest in renewable energy projects? 2 What factors determine bankability (like developer, technology, geography)? 3 Returns required by investors 4 What are the investment timeframes of large investors? 5 Their perception to risks like – PPA risk, regulatory and policy risk, technology risk, construction risk INTERNATIONAL FINANCING 1 Regulatory barriers 2 Hedging Forex risks and its related high costs. 3 Types of financing structures needed 4 How can we mitigate cost of currency swaps and country risk to make foreign lending more attractive? 5 Foreign lending – general terms and conditions COMMERCIAL BANK LENDING Problems faced by small and foreign developers in raising debt financing as relationships play strong role in 1 Indian Banking Are banks nearing their renewable energy sector exposure limits (which is clubbed with power, utility or energy sector limits) due to major exhaustion by conventional power projects financing? And should we consider 2 enhancements for future? 3 Should renewable energy sector exposure limits be decoupled from the power or energy sector? Banks limit their exposure to the sector due to unfamiliarity with renewable energy policy and markets. Way 4 forward?