2012 Renewable Energy Finance Forum in San Francisco
I’m looking forward to attending the Renewable Energy Finance Forum, a biannual event put on by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) this Thursday and Friday. Great content, and a magnificent “networking” opportunity, as I’m constantly looking for the best concepts in clean energy as potential investment opportunites.
I have three appointments with 2GreenEnergy readers lined up in advance, and I’m hoping for more. It’s always nice to put a face with a name, as they say. If you’re in the Bay Area and would like to sit down for a chat, please let me know and I’ll try to make that happen.
As strange as it may seem, I also look forward to shopping for a hotel. The conference is at the Four Seasons, whose room rate is $595. Sorry, that’s more than I paid for my first car. I use the Priceline.com’s “Name Your Own Price” feature. This is good for people like me; I don’t have a favorite hotel in each of the cities that I visit frequently. I want “nice,” I want “cheap,” and I actually enjoy walking in the world’s great cities; I don’t care a lick if the hotel’s a few blocks away.
I’ve only had “Name Your Own Price” fail me once out of dozens of experiences; the entirety of Manhattan was sold out one night last year. Big deal; I took the subway out to Queens.
Those conferences should provide a list of suitable hotels in the area, including ones with a reasonable price. We don’t all have Mitt Romney’s fortune.
My fist car cost $300.
P.S. – Before the Internet, public libraries had telephone directories for principal cities. I used to go to the library and use telephone directories to locate suitable hotels. With the Internet, things are more convenient.