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Upcoming Events (Note Tonight’s Event!!) and Companies of Note

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

In case you have missed it, the California Clean Tech Open has some interesting finalists this year. Be sure to check out what’s happening. More here.

Tonight, thanks to Nick Allen from Morgan Stanley Research, here’s the latest on this evening’s Renewable Energy Forum: The Obama and McCain campaigns will present their positions on energy policy and the role of renewables, followed by a moderated discussion of attendees’ questions in an event entitled ‘Renewable Energy Forum – Presidential Campaign 2008′.

Details
- Wednesday, August 13 at the Marine Memorial Association, 609 Sutter St. San Francisco. Doors open at 5:30pm, the event starts promptly at 6pm, will end around 7:30pm, and be followed by a wine & beer reception.
- Sign up today while there are still seats.

Surrogates from both campaigns and a moderator will engage in a collaborative discussion of their candidates’ positions. The presidential campaign surrogates are Tim Carmichael, Senior Campaign Advisor for Obama ‘08, and Kurt E. Yeager, California Chair of the McCain Energy Coalition. The event will take place at the Marines’ Memorial Theatre on Wednesday, August 13 @ 6:00 PM and is sponsored by the Marines’ Memorial Association, the Renewable Energy Business Network (REBN) and the World Affairs Council of Northern California. Written questions will be solicited from the audience during the speaker presentations to be presented by the moderator, James L. Sweeney, Director, Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency and Professor, Management Science and Engineering, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Stanford University. Mr. Carmichael is Senior Director of Policy at the Coalition for Clean Air. Mr. Yeager is the former President and CEO of the Electric Power Institute of Palo Alto.

The Renewable Energy Business Network enables researchers and business professionals with an interest in renewable energy to connect with one another to promote the growth of the renewable energy industry. REBN provides opportunities for networking, collaboration, education and business creation. For more information visit www.rebn.org

Something else has caught my eye: Dow Jones’ Alternative Energy Innovations 2008. The list of presenters at this year’s conference includes a long enough list of companies to keep you reading and researching for a while. Worth checking out.

Social Capital Markets 2008 is also upcoming. Certainly you can’t separate the social contribution cleantech as an industry is making to society – whether we’re talking water technologies or solar, or whatnot – and certainly there’s a real need to re-think the metrics that used in creating financial valuations of companies – where metrics may include measurement of the intangibles as well as tangibles. Anyway, I figure you can learn a lot at a conference like this. A list of speakers for Social Capital Markets 2008 is here.

And World Water Week in Stockholm’s upcoming, kicking off on Sunday.

Re. companies…if you haven’t seen it, check out what Bluesign is doing. Good for them. And I’m rather fascinated at the moment by Solarbee. More research to do on them, but I’m intrigued…you might be, too.

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