Bloomberg New Energy Finance Adds Additional Summit Speakers

Press Release

Recently Confirmed Experts Include Jeff Broin, CEO of POET, Andy
Palmer, Senior Vice President of Nissan, Anil Srivastava, Senior
Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer of AREVA
Renewables, and Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank,
April 4-7, 2011

NEW YORK — With this year’s Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit
less than one week away, the thought-provoking agenda and list
of influential speakers continues to grow, providing an
unrivalled opportunity to connect with investors, executives,
and policy-makers. The Summit, to be held April 4-7, 2011 in New
York City, will bring together around 400 industry leaders from
across the world, delivering an interactive and inspiring
program.

The theme of the conference is Innovate, Generate, Intergrate,
with day one of the Summit focusing on “Driving Innovation”. The
US Department of Energy will highlight key research it is
funding directly and via its national laboratories. The Obama
administration’s efforts to foster clean energy entrepreneurial
activity will also be a focus during a talk from Karina L.
Edmonds, who coordinates technology transfer for the DOE.

Day two hones in on the economics of clean energy, taking a
closer look at the current costs of generating it cleanly. Also
on the agenda: the role that policy-makers will play in
fostering economic development and job growth in clean energy.
Day three examines how clean energy is shedding the label
“alternative” and moving into the mainstream. Topics will
include looking at how cities, transport systems, and
electricity grids will have to change in order to keep pace, and
what sort of regulation will be needed to ensure energy markets
can respond to the unprecedented level demands on them.

On the fourth day, Thursday, April 7, Bloomberg New Energy
Finance will hold its first ever Roundtable Day on Energy Access
& Climate Change in association with UN-Energy. The event, which
will take place at the Central Park Boathouse, will now include
an additional panel on scaling up investment in developing
countries to be co-hosted by the World Economic Forum. The
discussion will highlight some of the lessons learned through
the Critical Mass Initiative – a collaboration of WEF and PwC,
in partnership with the UN Foundation and the International
Finance Corporation – regarding project and programmatic
approaches to scaling up low-carbon infrastructure investment
and the role of “investment-grade” policy as catalyst for
private investment.

Roundtable Day will also feature an interactive panel that
connects participants to the second Clean Energy Ministerial in
the United Arab Emirates. Ministers will give a read-out of the
meeting, highlight progress achieved, and contextualize it
within the discussions and subsequent findings that day from the
Summit.

Drawing on thought leadership from key figures in industry,
academia and policy, the list of recently confirmed speakers for
the Summit now includes World Bank President Robert Zoellick,
Nissan SVP Andy Palmer, POET CEO Jeff Broin and AREVA Renewables
Senior Vice President & Chief Executive Officer Anil Srivastava.
Speakers already announced for the event include:

– Dan Arvizu, Director of the National Renewable Energy Lab

– James Cameron, Vice Chairman, Climate Change Capital

– Margaret Catley-Carlson, Chair of the Global Water Partnership

– Charles “Chad” O. Holliday, Jr., Chairman, Bank of America

– Bjorn Lomborg, author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist” and
“Cool It”

– Michael G. Morris, Chairman/CEO, American Electric Power

– Rick Needham, Director Green Business Opportunities, Google

– Dominic Waughrey, Senior Director and Head of Environmental
Initiatives, World Economic Forum

– Senator Tim Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation

“The Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit has established itself
as the leading annual discussion forum for decision makers in
the clean energy and carbon sectors,” said Michael Liebreich,
Summit Chairman and head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. “This
year we’ve pulled together an exceptional line-up of speakers
and an insightful agenda to ignite conversations within the
community.”

Partnered with Bloomberg New Energy Finance in supporting the
Summit is AREVA, Bank of America and Lockheed Martin. Also
supporting the event as industry partners is BP, Ernst & Young,
Hudson Clean Energy and Nissan.

For an up-to-date list of thought leaders and more information
on the agenda, please visit https://www.bnefsummit.com.

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