Date: January 26, 2010
Contact: Kelly Griffith, Marketing Manager
Phone:
(612) 492-7514
Email: kgriffith@fredlaw.com
For Immediate Release
Fredrikson & Byron to Host Third Annual Midwest Wind Development Conference
Conference to focus on financial aspects of wind projects
Minneapolis, MN January 26, 2010 – – Fredrikson & Byron will host the third annual Midwest Wind Development Conference Monday, February 22, 2010 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The full-day conference will provide attendees with tools to learn how to develop and capture the financial benefits of a community-based wind project, including gaining access to federal and state incentives.
The conference will cover trends in the wind industry, obtaining a wind site that is attractive to investors, current permitting and environmental challenges faced by site developers, navigating the interconnection and transmission regulatory systems, negotiating wind power purchase agreements, using state and federal incentives to finance projects, and developing and financing issues from landowner, developer and utility perspectives.
The conference will appeal to wind industry professionals, financiers, utilities, municipalities, cooperatives, and developers, and will feature an exceptional panel of presenters who will discuss the commercial opportunities as well as challenges in wind development.
“Stakeholders of successful wind projects can attest to the significant resources needed to go from bare land to a completed project,” said Dan Yarano, Chair of Fredrikson’s Renewable Energy Practice. “The conference is an excellent opportunity for small developers and landowners to meet well-capitalized developers to discuss joint ventures and other relationships that can help bring development projects to commercial operation. This may even involve competitors aligning resources to complete developments.”
The cost per registrant is $150 until February 8 and $200 thereafter; registration fees include the full-day conference, materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and a reception. The conference will take place at the Holiday Inn City Center located at 100 West 8th St., Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Full conference details and registration can be found at http://www.fredlaw.com/events/windconf2010.html.
Fredrikson & Byron is a 240 attorney law firm based in Minneapolis, with offices in Bismarck, Des Moines, Monterrey, Mexico, and Shanghai, China. We’ve built a reputation as the firm “where law and business meet” by bringing business acumen and entrepreneurial thinking to our work with clients, and by operating as business advisors and strategic partners as well as legal counselors. The firm’s primary areas of practice include banking, corporate, employment, energy, renewable energy, franchise, government relations, healthcare, intellectual property, international, litigation, real estate, securities, and tax. We serve a broad range of clients, including multinational corporations, public companies, privately-held businesses, entrepreneurs, government agencies, and family businesses. Fredrikson & Byron’s attorneys also work with individuals on estate planning, family law, and immigration matters. We are the exclusive Minnesota law firm member of the World Services Group, a worldwide network of professional service providers. More information about the firm is available at www.fredlaw.com.