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3rd UKRAINIAN RENEWABLE ENERGY FORUM

17-18 October 2011, Kyiv, InterContinental Hotel

Meeting Point for Professionals

Join the industry and the leaders of alternative energy market at REF-2011, 3rd International Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Forum and learn all about alternative energy and fuel industry of Ukraine - the new promising market to invest in and to develop your renewable energy projects.

- “Green field”: How stable is an attractive legislative foundation of the Ukrainian market of renewable energy? Having one of the highest rates of feed-in-tariff in the world, is Ukraine protected from Czech or Italian scenario of renewable energy market stimulation?

- 6% vs 30% in energy balance in 2030. What are the real goals of the Ukrainian government in renewable energy sphere? How does the renewable energy projects road map (announced by the state agency) of Ukraine look like?

- 100 reasons to invest in renewables in CIS. Lessons of special financing programs and new opportunities of investment attraction in renewable energy projects in Ukraine and neighboring markets.

- Practical focus sessions on solar, wind and small hydro manufacturing: How can you best set up a plant? What challenges will you face in Ukraine? How to solve land, equipment selection, grid connection and other impotent questions

- Case studies of industrial scale renewable energy plants and energy efficiency projects under development.

- Energy Efficiency in the industry and municipality: the best projects and technologies which solve the economy in the high gas prices conditions

- Regional outlook: What are the opportunities for large scale renewable energy projects development in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belorussia, Moldova, Azerbaidzhan and other Commonwealth of Independent States markets? Can Ukraine serve as a hub to these?

A key event of this autumn in Ukraine, REF-2011 is a meeting of professionals, whose activities are connected to the Ukrainian market of alternative energy. The Forum creates a business platform for exchange of experience, communication, presenting investment projects and for finding the investors in the field of solar and wind energy, as well as in the heat pumps and small hydropower businesses.

The main features of the Forum REF-2011 are:

- Only the business and the practical orientation of the Forum in each of key segments: solar energy, wind energy, small hydropower;

- An integrated program that allows participants to spend efficiently the time at the Forum;

- Investment session allowing participants to discuss the opportunities and possible alternatives to attract financing, except for those few who are well-known, but not suitable for all;

- Matchmaking: You do not need to guess how and with whom to meet. We prepare in advance your individual program of meetings and negotiations.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF REF-2011:
- to ensure information and communication security for participants of Renewable Energy market of Ukraine;
- to attract the investments into renewable energy in Ukraine;
- to improve the industrial legislation;
- to create the momentum for renewable energy development in Ukraine.

We invite into the REF-2011:

• Owners and top managers of companies, who are engaged in wind and solar energy, small hydropower,
• Managers of power generation, energy supplying and servicing companies,
• managers and chief engineers, design institutes,
• Executives and managers of financial institutions, legal and consulting companies,
• Owners and top managers of industrial enterprises, agriculture and fuel and energy complexes,
• Representatives of central and local authorities,
• Representatives of international and national organizations in the field of renewable energy
• Scientists and researchers
• Top managers and executives of companies developing environmental and social policies.

Ukraine today is ...

- a big, but still "empty" market, where everything is just begins. According to the new government plans, the goal of Ukraine is to reach 30% of the renewable energy in total energy mix by 2030,

- a country with a large number of small rivers and excellent natural conditions for construction of small hydropower plants with a good wind potential, with solar radiation, which is higher on average throughout than in Germany,

- a country with an active mechanism for green tariff: as of December 2010 it received 42 hydropower facilities, 2 properties in the use of biomass as an energy source, 1 - biogas, 5 wind farms, three solar power stations,

- A country, where the green tariff is one of the highest in the world and guaranteed by the state until 2020, and the legal framework is sufficiently developed,

- a state with rising prices for natural gas: in 2010, home prices rose by 50%, and during 2011, according to the plans of the authorities, it should increase by 50%. Thereunder, the popularity of alternative energy sources rises, especially because ...

- Ukraine is a country, where the payback period of renewable energy projects on average doesn’t exceed 5 years.

Notices

Major events and trends in 1st half of 2011	Aug 16 2011
Activ Solar became a sponsor of the Solar Energy Session of the 3rd Ukrainian Renewable Energy and Energy EfficiencyForum	Aug. 16 2011
100 Reasons to Invest in Ukraine by Bernard Casey	July 12 2011
KPMG became a brand sponsor of 3rd Ukrainian Renewable Energy Forum	Aug. 15 2011

Press-releases

Leading industry experts are convinced in the prospective of the renewable energy industry of Ukraine	Sep. 23 2011
It took one year for the fully fledged renewable energy sector to be formed in Ukrained	Sept.7 2011
Renewable energy development in the CIS will be at a completely new level in autumn, 2011	Aug. 29 2011
The attractiveness of the renewable energy sector amid economic crisis in the U.S. and the EU could increase	Aug. 16 2011