Distributed Sun Announces the Solar Network Summit 2013: "The Get Deals Done Summit"

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Aug 15, 2013, 07:00 ET

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Distributed Sun LLC (D-SUN), a leading innovator in solar development and finance, today announced the inaugural Solar Network Summit. The summit, co-hosted by PwC US, will be held in Washington, DC, on October 8-9, at the landmark House of Sweden on the Georgetown waterfront.

Summit attendees, speakers, and sponsors include a who's who of market-share and thought-leaders throughout the solar industry value-chain, with keynote and summit addresses by Richard Kauffman, Chairman of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and Jigar Shah, CEO of Jigar Shah Consulting and founder of SunEdison, among others. The event is dedicated to exploring ways to grow the marketplace, reduce deal failures, increase access to capital, lower finance costs, and unlock efficiencies through collaboration. Participants will meet the people and companies behind truSolar™ and learn about ways to get involved with this exciting, market-leading, industry-driven, accessible, project credit screen and score that brings uniform, best-practice standards to non-residential solar evaluation and underwriting.

Attendees of the Solar Network Summit include C-level leaders throughout the solar industry value-chain, developers and EPCs with real, pre-screened deals looking for finance, individual and institutional investors, solutions providers targeting the distributed generation and microgrid sectors, and Fortune 500 companies focused on sustainability and renewables.

The 2013 Solar Network Summit provides attendees a special event experience servicing what matters most – doing more and better business together. Focused on expanding portfolios, improving transaction efficiency, and accessing lower-cost pools of capital, the summit provides a forum for participants with ready deal flow and capital to talk and do business. It also provides the opportunity to learn about market and policy trends and to work together to break down transaction barriers to accelerate the adoption of distributed solar and microgrid solutions.

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SOURCE Distributed Sun