"Year of Renewables" Forecast at Wall Street Green Trading Summit

    /24-7PressRelease/ - NEW YORK, NY - March 07, 2006 - (For immediate release)—The Wall Street Green Summit promises once again to break new ground with cutting edge topics including green hedge funds, carbon squestration trading, green finance and trading financial negawatts. The Green Trading Summit is the only global conference that embraces the triple convergence of the capital markets and all environmentally traded markets including greenhouse gases, renewable energy and negawatts.
This event is the only global conference that embraces the triple convergence of the capital markets and all environmentally traded markets including greenhouse gases, renewable energy and negawatts. As the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the Kyoto Protocol take effect, there has been a knock-on effect on renewable energy trading markets that makes the Green Trading Summit more timely that ever.

This year's Wall Street Green Trading Summit will have a particular focus on renewable energy trading. 2006 looks to be the breakthrough year in renewable market development. The US has the most advanced environmental financial markets and Wall Street can move very quickly to embrace renewable energy trading," said Peter C. Fusaro, Chairman of Global Change Associates and co-creator of the Wall Street Green Trading Summit.

This year's summit will offer new market development on green hedge funds, clean technology, carbon sequestration, and new advances in renewable energy trading. 2006 promises to be the "Year of Renewables" with over 600 green power programs in the US. The Wall Street Green Trading Summit will feature new topics on renewable energy trading including:

· The Latest on a National "Renewable Trading Standard"

· The Quality of RECs and Offsets Related to Pricing

· Green Monetization in Project Finance

· How to Improve the Forward Price Curve for Green Power

· Growth Prospects in the Renewable Space

The fifth Wall Street Annual Green Trading Summit will be held at Bloomberg headquarters in the heart of New York City on April 4 and 5. For further information, please go to http://www.hedgeconnection.com or call Lisa Vioni at +1-941-240-0153, [email protected].

Global Change Associates is an eneergy and environmental consulting firm based in New York. Our chairman, Peter C. Fusaro, is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron. He is a leader on identifying emerging trends and issues in energy and financial markets. Our recent research has involve energy hedge funds and environmental finance market development for greenhouse gas reductions and renewable energy.

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