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Please see outline schedule which is subject to some changes.

9:30 Registration, tea/coffee

10:00 Welcome

Euan Cameron, CEO, Wind Prospect

10:05 Introduction

Dave Groves, Director, Wind Prospect

10:10 A contented credit committee – securing debt finance

Dipak Haria, Associate Director, Infrastructure & Structured Project Finance, Barclays Corporate

Appetite for risk
Standard projects and acceptable deviations
Long-term outlook

10:30 Investing in wind – the real story

Tom Murley, Head of Renewables, HgCapital

Are wind farms delivering their expected returns?
Are developers producing investable projects?
What’s the market appetite for investing?

10:50 Coffee

11:20 Getting ready to build - management of risks

Colin Aimers, Director, Wind Prospect

Solutions to tricky planning conditions
Avoiding trip-ups
Tips to get things right first time

11:40 Wind resource – safety in more numbers

Paul Stangroom, Wind Resource Manager, Wind Prospect

What wind investors want
Cashing in on quantity and quality
Wind up your project

12:00 Panel discussion

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Introduction to afternoon session

Ari Liddell, Engineering Team Manager, Wind Prospect

13:40 Contracting structures & reducing the risks

Bruce Allan, Construction Director, Wind Prospect

the pros & cons of contract structures
common risks
ways to reduce risk

14:00 Wind farm for sale

Ian Wood, Assistant Director, Ernst & Young

What are buyer’s looking for?
An appetite for pipeline, pre-construction and operational projects
What risk factors impact value?

14:20 Coffee

15.00 Wind & law

Ian McCarlie, Partner, McGrigors

What has gone wrong, and what happened after?
Trends in contracting structures
When contracts don’t protect you

15:20 Panel discussion

15:55 Close