The Environmental Protection Agency recently “completed a reconsideration of the appropriate and necessary finding for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.” The main elements of the finding address the appropriate metrics for the underlying cost-benefit analysis. ...
Political scandals such as bribery and influence peddling are nothing new. There are innumerable examples from many industries and interest groups. While all economic interests engage in lobbying, some industries...
The basic model of bid-based, security-constrained, economic dispatch with locational prices is well understood and provides the foundation for efficient pricing. The most common analysis is for a single period with well-behaved bids and offers without uncertainty. With independent dispatches...
Technological progress and public policy pressures are accelerating decarbonization of electricity supply. Increasingly, states and utilities are announcing 100% renewable, 100% clean or net zero carbon targets and mandates. With intermittent sources as the dominant source of supply, there is...
December 12-13, 2019, Marana, AZ Session One - Forming Expectations for Price Formation Session Two - Coherence or Confusion: What is the Environmental Agenda for the Power Sector? Session Three - Offshore Wind: Barriers and Challenges to Meaningful Market Entry
October 1-2, 2019, Washington, D.C. Session One - Decline in Revenues: Impact on Generators and Utilities and Options for Response Session Two - California Electricity Crisis (2000-2001): Legacy and Lessons Session Three - Utilities on the Customer Side of the Meter: Issues and Challenges
June 13-14, 2019, Cambridge, MA Session One - More Renewables, Less Carbon: How Fast, How Far, and at What Cost? Session Two - Volumetric Residential Rates: Socially Progressive or Regressive? Session Three - Market Reforms for Stressed Conditions
March 26-27, 2019, Half Moon Bay, CA Session One - Competition in Transmission: Policy Direction and Experience Since Order 1000 Session Two - Gas and Electric Coordination: Evolution or Revolution? Session Three - Utility Liability: The Pros and Cons of Socializing Risks
December 6-7, 2018, Manalapan, FL Session One - Customer Side of the Meter: What Works? Who Benefits? Who Belongs There Session Two - Cyber Security and Electricity Markets: Risk-Based Security Design and Oversight Session Three - CHEVRON Deference: The Impact of Its Demise on Electricity Markets
October 4-5, 2018, Washington, DC Session One - Cyber Security and Electricity Market Policy: Allies or Antagonists? Session Two - Can Electricity Markets Meet the Challenge of Meeting Non-Market Objectives? Session Three - Are Traditional Customer Classifications Still Relevant?
June 7-8, 2018, Cambridge, MA Session One - State of Retail Competition: Looking Back/Looking Forward Session Two - Order 1000: Looking Back/Looking Forward Session Three - HEPG: 25 Years Old -- Looking Back / Looking Forward
March 22-23, 2018, Washington, DC Session One - Regional Reliability Standards: Requirements or Replaceable Relics? Session Two - Financial Transmission Rights: Theory and Practice Session Three - The State of State-Federal Jurisdiction in Electricity Markets: Is Policy Coherence Possible?... Read more about 90th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report
January 25-26, 2018, Palm Beach, FL Session One - Grid Resilience: A Problem in Search of a Solution, or a Solution in Search of a Problem? Session Two - Demand Charges: Can they be Internalized in Dynamic Pricing Without Diluting Efficient Price Signals? Session Three - ELMP REDUX: What to Do When Locational Prices are Not Enough?
October 12-13 2017, Calgary, AB Session One-Pricing Carbon Emissions: The Promise and Pitfalls of Regional Approaches Session Two-Sustainable Capacity Markets: Too Much to Hope For? Session Three-Carbon Emissions: Does Federal Exit Result In Heightened Pressure on States to Act?
June 1-2, 2017, Cambridge, MA Session Session One - REV and Beyond: Looking Ahead to Technology Disruption Session Two- Ancillary Service Markets: Is There a Link between Value and Price? Session Three - Re-regulation Redux? Or, Can We Sustain Competition?
March 30-31, 2017, Savannah, GA Session One - Load Serving Entities and Utility Distribution Companies: Expanding or Shrinking Role Going Forward? Session Two - Subsidies in Electricity Markets: Tilting at Windmills? Session Three - EPA Clean Power Plan Redux: What Now?
October 13-14, 2016, Washington, D.C. Session One - Transmission Rights and Revenues Redux: Follow the Money Session Two - Deciding Market Manipulation Cases: FERC Processes, Role of Judiciary, and Policy Coherence Session Three - Counting Carbon: Pricing Greenhouse Gas Pollution in RTO Markets
June 2-3, 2016, Cambridge, MA Session One -Interregional Transmission Services and Operations: Beyond Order 1000 Session Two Retail Rates: What Are We Missing by Perpetuating Tariffs without Meaningful Price Signals? Session Three - Clean Energy Revolution or Evolution: The Cost of Renewables
March 10-11, 2016, Washington, D.C. Session One - Regulatory-Market Arbitrage: From Rate Base to Market and Back Again Session Two - Stakeholder Processes: “The Worst Form of Government, except for All the Others” Session Three - Uneconomic Dispatch?: Frontier Challenges in Dispatch and Pricing
Session One - Computational Frontiers in Electricity Markets: Not Your Grandfather's Economic Dispatch Session Two - Free Renewables and Electrictiy Markets: Can Renewables Thrive through the Markets? Session Three - EPA Clean Power Plan: What Now?
Session One - Transmission Expansion and Cost Allocation: Order 1000 Redux Session Two - Value of Solar: Shining Light on Hidden Values Session Three - Clean Power Plan: Critical State Implementation Decisions
March 24-25, 2015 Session One - Storage and the Economics of Clean Electricity: Can Expanded Storage Solve the Challenges of Increased Penetration of Intermittent Resources? Session Two - Distributed Energy Resources and Distribution Systems: Are "DSOs" and More Sophisticated Planning and Network Pricing Needed? Session Three - ISO Governance and Processes: Are They Adequate in an Increasingly Dynamic Market? Is Some Harmonization Needed?
June 25-26, 2015Session One - Residential Demand Charges: An Economic Necessity or Political Fatality? Session Two - Hidden Values: Missing Markets and Electricity Policy Session Three - 80 Years of the Federal Power Act: How Has It Evolved and What Lessons Can We Derive?
December 4-5, 2014, New Orleans, LA Session One - Environmental Dispatch: Now? Or Never? Session Two - Technology and Resource Choice: What Value Diversity? Session Three - Resource Adequacy Reconsidered: Mandates and Markets
October 2-3, 2014, Cambridge, MA Session One - Better Markets, Better Products, Better Prices Session Two - Renewable Energy and Carbon Policy: What Exactly is the Relationship? Session Three - Section 111(d): What Will EPA Do? What Will the States Do?
June 12-13, 2014, Cambridge, MA Session One - Uplift Downside Session Two - Regulating Generation: When Do Wholesale and Retail Generation Become Part of the Same Whole? Session Three - Cyber-Security vs. Physical Security/High Voltage vs. Low Voltage: Which Should Be the Priority?
February 27-28, 2014, Santa Monica, CA Session One Energy and Capacity Markets: Carts and Horses in Parallel Universes Session Two - Transmission Planning: The Challenges Ahead Session Session Three - Distributed Generation: Alternative Ways of Pricing the Output and Dealing with the "Lost Revenue" and Cross-Subsidy Issues
Session One - Electricity Trading: Value Added or Value Removed? Session Two - The Electric Utility Business Model Going Forward: Maximalis, Minimalist, or Somewhere in Between? Session Three - Reliance on Renewables: Clash Between Expectation and Reality?
Session One - Twenty Years of Market Reformation: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? Session Two - Regional Transmission Organizations: Successes and Challenges Session Three - The Green Agenda: Electricity and the Environment
Session One - California Cap and Trade Regime: How It Will Work and What Are Its Implications for the State and for Western Energy Markets? Session Two - Wholesale/Retail Pricing: Can the Disconnected Realities be Bridged? Session Three - Forward Trading in Electricity Markets: Benefits, Costs, and Challenges
Session One - Squaring the Circle of Resources Adequacy Session Two - Seeking Standards Through a Proactive Compliance Initiative Session Three - Our Annual “Hundred Year” Storms: How Much Electricity Infrastructure and Reliability Should We Be Planning For and Investing In?
Session One - Manipulation of Electricity Markets: What is the State of the Law? Session Two - Manipulation of Electricity Markets: What is the State of the Economics? Session Three - Does Price Suffice? Natural Gas Prices and Resource Choices
Session One - Gone With the Wind: What Will Replace the Right of First Refusal? Session Two - "Over There": Electricity Market Developments from Europe, Brazil, and China Session Three - Market Liquidity: Means, Ends and Myths
Session One - Choosing Energy Technologies: When and Where are Subsidies Appropriate and How Should They be Designed Session Two - Reliability and Economics: Separate Realities or Part of the Same Continuum? Session Three - Real Time Pricing: Is It Necessary to Get Retail Price Signals Right?
Session One - Transmission Cost Allocation Roughly Commensurate with Benefits: Now What? Session Two - FERC's Planning and Cost Allocation Guidelines: Will They Alter the Dynamics of Siting Multi-State Transmission Lines? Session Three - Retail Pricing: Is It Time To Get Real (Time)? Or, At Least, Dynamic?
Session One - Watching the Watchers: Challenges for Market Monitors Session Two - Post Fukushima: If Not Nuclear, What Energy Mix? Session Three - Complementing Wind and Solar: Is the Natural Gas Infrastructure Up To The Job?
Session One - Lowering Prices by Raising Costs: When Do Targeted Subsidies Create an Existential Threat to Open Markets? Session Two - Easier Said Than Done: The Continuing Saga of Moving from Principle to Practice in Crafting Transmission Infrastructure Investment Rules Session Three - Nodal Real Time Pricing in the Wholesale Market: Nodal Real Time in Retail Pricing?
Session One - Carbon Policy – Looking Under the Lamp Post Session Two - Resource Adequacy in the Era of RPS and Carbon Concerns: Reliability Considerations and the Specter of Scarcity Prices? Session Three - Utility Demand Side Management Programs: With and Without De-Coupling. Measuring Their Impact on Utility Profitability
Session One - Smarting from Resistance to Smart Grids Session Two - Transmission Cost Allocation Session Three - Carbon Emissions and Renewables: What’s Ahead?
Session One - Demand Side Response: What Price Efficiency? Session Two - Financial Reform: Intended and Unintended Consequences Session Three - Renewable Energy: Prices, Costs, and Carbon Emissions
Session One - Distribution Infrastructure and Electricity Transformation Session Two - Transmission Planning and Certain Surprises Session Three - Copenhagen Challenges for Climate Change Policy
Session One - Transmission Cost Allocation: The Seventh Circuit Decision and The Proposed Corker Amendment Session Two - Shale Shock: The Revolution in Shale Gas Recovery, Electricity Markets, and the Green Agenda Session Three - Electric Storage: Building the Market
Session One - In Search of Perfect Prices: Incremental Improvements with High Leverage Session Two - Smart Grid and Demand Response: Implementation and Pricing Issues...
Session One - Transmission Rights, Transmission Wrongs, and Renewable Resources: Conflicts Over Access, Pricing, and Jurisdiction Session Two - Linking Regulatory Means and Environmental Ends: Intended and Unintended Consequences Session Three - Comprehensive Transmission Planning: New Challenges To Coherence, Functionality, and Economic Efficiency
Session One - Formulating and Enforcing Reliability Rules: Assessing the Relationship Between the ERC’s (FERC and NERC) Session Two - Smart Policies for Smart Grids: What, in fact, are the Policy Issues? Session Three - Scarcity Pricing: A Good Idea With Bad Press?
Session One - The Benefits of Going Green: Good or Too Good to be True? Session Two - Electricity Markets: A Transformative Moment? Session Three - RTO Performance: Are They Being Held Accountable/How Can They Be?
Session One - Transmission Investment: Competitive Market Platform or Regulation Trojan Horse? Session Two - Renewable Rules: Market Friend or Foe? Session Three - Regulatory Treatment of Purchased Power: Pass Through or Profit Center?
Session One - Nuclear Power: Are the $tars Aligned? Session Two - Market Power Monitoring and Mitigation in a World of Financial Transactions Session Three - Debt by Any Other Name: Are Ratings Reality? Does the Accounting Make It So?
Session One - Federal Transmission Corridors The New Federal Role in Siting: Too Little? Too Much? Just Right? or Largely Irrelevant? Session Two - Monopsony Manipulation: No Cost is Too High to Get Low Prices Session Three - Risky Business: Does the Current State of Allocating Risk Allow for Optimal Ex Ante Investment Decisions in Generation and Transmission?
Session One - Commitment: It's Getting Better All the Time with MIP. Session Two - The Impact of Competition on Electricity Prices: Can We Discern a Pattern? Session Three - Allocating Carbon Emission Allowances: Who Gets What and How?
Session One - Ample Opportunity, Ample Risks: The Dilemma of Generating Companies Trying To Make Prudent, Needed Investment in the Context of Climate Change Uncertainty. Session Two - Retail Procurement: In Search of No Fault Default Service. Session Three - Going Long: Capacity Markets in Action
Session One - All the King's Horses and All the King's Men: Can Humpty Dumpty Be Put Together Again? Session Two - Beneficiaries of Transmission Expansion: Who, Where, When, and How Much? Session Three - Climate Change: If the Debate is Over, We Must Know What To Do.
Session One - Courts, Contracts and Competition Session Two - A Consensus of Inaction: Demand Side Opportunities and Consumer Culture Session Three - Transmission Chickens and Alternative Energy Eggs
Session One - Transmission and Generation Planning: What Is To Be Done? Who Needs It? Who Pays For It? Who Regulates It? Session Two - Regulation and Hedging For Load Serving Entities: Which Risk Is Greater, Regulatory or Speculative? Session Three - An Agenda For More Perfect Regulation in Less Perfect Markets
Session One - Carbon Dioxide Emissions Controls and Electricity Markets Session Two - Wholesale and Retail Electricity Market Models: Will They Mesh Well or Cancel Each Other Out? Session Three - Regional Transmission Organizations: Cost or Benefit, Necessary or Disposable?
Session One - Missing Markets and Unintended Consequences Session Two - Forward Contracts and Capacity Markets: High Powered Incentives or Assets to be Stranded? Session Three - Market Monitors: Dealing with Bad Guys, Bad Rules, or Both? What Powers Should They Have and How Should They Be Exercised?
Session One - Mandatory Reliability Rules and Market Design Session Two - PUHCA Repeal: Should repeal proponents have been more careful what they they asked for? Or will market and industry structures become more appropriate to contemporary circumstances? Session Three - Transmission Planning and Siting
Session One - Retail Competition: Why Does It Work In Some Places And Not In Others? Comparing Experiences In Europe And North America. Session Two - Resource Adequacy And Electricity Markets. Session Three - Transmission: A Market Participant or a Neutral Essential Market Enabler?
Session One - Electricity Restructuring Policy: Looking Back and Planning Ahead. Session Two - Transmission Expansion in Restructured Electricity Markets. Session Three - Renewable Portfolio Standards: What Works?
Session One - Do Transparency Requirements Cloud Good Decision-Making? Session Two - Distribution Pricing: Do Revenue Caps Set Appropriate Incentives? Are They Fair to Consumers and Investors? Session Three - Revisiting Open Access: Groundhog Day Again
Session One - Commercial Incentives and Reliability Rules. Session Two - Efficient Withholding: Why, When and How to Support Efficient Electricity Markets. Session Three- Re-Verticalizing Electricity: Is It the Result of the Market or Manipulation? Is It Good Policy? Who Decides?
Session One - Reliability and Markets. Session Two -The ISO as the New Utility: Bigger Footprint and Federally Regulated. Session Three - Choice of Fuel Resources: A Role for Planning and Allocation in a Market-Driven Environment?
Session One - Overcoming Market Failures Without Overturning Markets. Session Two - Active Markets and Reactive Policies: Requirements, Rules, Incentives and Business Models for Reactive...
Session One - Retail Competition: Should Markets Be Bifurcated Between Core and Non-Core Customers? Session Two - How Does Electricity Restructuring Alter the Real Costs of Risk? Session Three - Back to the Future? Competition and Market Mitigation: A Judicious Mix or a Return to the Past?
Which Way from Here Session One - We Have Seen the Future: It Doesn't Work. Session Two - We Can See the Future: It Is Working. Session Three - Regulated Utilities and Unregulated Losses.
Two Scenarios: Too Much Money; Too Little Money Session One - Too Much Money. Session Two - Too Little Money. Session Three - The Costs and Benefits...
Session One - Setting the Standard for Standard Offers. Session Two - Regional State Advisory Committees and Grid Governance. Session Three - The Virtues of Virtual RTOs.
Session One - Overcoming Market Failures Without Overturning Markets. Session Two - Active Markets and Reactive Policies: Requirements, Rules, Incentives and Business Models for Reactive Power. Session Three - Retail Competition in Texas Electricity Markets: Is It Working? How Can We Tell?
Western Issues Session One - Market Design for the West: Adaptation and Implementation. Session Two - Standard Market Design and the States: Are They Preempted or Are They Enabled?
Session One - Working to Make Working Markets. Session Two - Energy Trading: Promoting Efficiency or Profiting from Manipulation? Session Three - The State of Retail Competition: A Failed Experiment, or an Essential Reform Just Beginning?
Session One - Working to Make Working Markets. Session Two - Energy Trading: Promoting Efficiency or Profiting from Manipulation? Session Three - The State of Retail Competition: A Failed Experiment, or an Essential Reform Just Beginning?
Session One - A Federal System Struggles to Restructure its Electricity Sector: The European Union. Session Two - Roller Coaster Prices: The Western US in the Past Year. Session Three - Making Markets Work Under RTOs.
Moving Towards Markets in the Face of Surprises and Mistakes. Session One - California: Weathering the Storm. Session Two - Re-Regulating Retail Competition. Session Three - Absorbing Shocks to the System.
Session One - Market Power and RTOs. Session Two - Multi-Settlement Systems: Consistency and Efficiency. Session Three - Demand-Side Participation: An Essential Part of the Reliability Equation.
Session One - Grid Planning and Expansion: Who, Where, When? Session Two - Retail Markets Over There: Has Supply Competition Taken Root? Session Three - Retail Markets Over There: Are They Contestable, and Contested?
29-30 January 1998 Session One - International Review: Experience and Reassessments. Session Two - Retail Restructuring: Old Issues in New Guise. Session Three - Market Monitoring: Knowing Where to Look, or Looking Under the Lamppost?
10-11 September 1998. HEPG Seventeenth Plenary Session. Session One -The Summer of '98: What Worked? What did Not? What Have We Learned? How Should We Respond? Session Two - Markets for Ancillary Services, or Ancillary Services for Markets? Session Three - Federal Electric Restructuring Legislation
20 November 1998. HEPG Special Session. Regional Boundaries, Regional Markets and Regional Institutions. Session One - The Wholesale Market in Practice. Session Two - Reliability and Regional Trade in Theory. Rapporteur's Summary. 25... Read more about Special Session - 20 November 1998
9 April 1998 Session One - Market Institutions and Operations. Session Two - ISO Governance, Regulatory Jurisdiction, Oversight, and Other Legal Issues.
September 26-27 1996 ISO Governance and Structure: A Continuing Exploration
Section One - Where Do Pilot Programs Lead Us? Session Two - State Legislative Initiatives to Reflect or Effect Competition in tlte Electric Industry? Session Three - Regulated Past and Competitit1e Future: What Rolefor Public Power?
25-26 January 1996 Merger Policy and Market Power. Session One - Merger Policy and Market Power Session Two - New Challenges for Regulators in a Restructured World Session Three - The Independent System Operator and the Power Exchange: Two Functions or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Session One - ISO Governance and Structure: A Continuing Exploration Session Two - Evaluating the Prospects for Federal Legislation in the Electricity Industry Session Three - Capacity Reservation Open Access Transmission Tariffs: Key to the Future
26-27 October 1995. . Regulating for Reliability and the Obligation to Serve. Session One- Regulating for Reliability and the Obligation to Serve Session Two - Besides California, What's Happening In Electricity Market Reform? Session Three - Transmission Siting and Expansion in a Restructured World - Rights of Way/Rites of Passage: Who Benefits? Who Decides?
23-24 May 1995 Session One - Municipalization and Electricity Restructuring Session Two - Implementing the "Golden Rule(s)" for Transmission Access in Support of Wholesale Competition Session Three - Defining, Detecting, and Dealing with Market Power
26-27 January 1995 Session One - Business Meeting Session Two - Nuclear Power in the Era of Competition Session Three - Competition in Retail Services: A Business Opportunity and a Regulatory Challenge
Federal Energy Initiatives and the Energy Policy Act Current State Initiatives in Electricity Market Reform Transmission Access and Regional Transmission Groups Stranded Assets Utility Diversification
Session One - A Federal System Struggles to Restructure its Electricity Sector: The European Union. Session Two - Roller Coaster Prices: The Western US in the Past Year. Session Three - Making Markets Work Under RTOs.
26-27 October 1995. . Regulating for Reliability and the Obligation to Serve. Session One- Regulating for Reliability and the Obligation to Serve Session Two - Besides California, What's Happening In Electricity Market Reform? Session Three - Transmission Siting and Expansion in a Restructured World - Rights of Way/Rites of Passage: Who Benefits? Who Decides?
January 25-26, 2018, Palm Beach, FL Session One - Grid Resilience: A Problem in Search of a Solution, or a Solution in Search of a Problem? Session Two - Demand Charges: Can they be Internalized in Dynamic Pricing Without Diluting Efficient Price Signals? Session Three - ELMP REDUX: What to Do When Locational Prices are Not Enough?
March 22-23, 2018, Washington, DC Session One - Regional Reliability Standards: Requirements or Replaceable Relics? Session Two - Financial Transmission Rights: Theory and Practice Session Three - The State of State-Federal Jurisdiction in Electricity Markets: Is Policy Coherence Possible?... Read more about 90th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report
June 7-8, 2018, Cambridge, MA Session One - State of Retail Competition: Looking Back/Looking Forward Session Two - Order 1000: Looking Back/Looking Forward Session Three - HEPG: 25 Years Old -- Looking Back / Looking Forward
October 4-5, 2018, Washington, DC Session One - Cyber Security and Electricity Market Policy: Allies or Antagonists? Session Two - Can Electricity Markets Meet the Challenge of Meeting Non-Market Objectives? Session Three - Are Traditional Customer Classifications Still Relevant?
December 6-7, 2018, Manalapan, FL Session One - Customer Side of the Meter: What Works? Who Benefits? Who Belongs There Session Two - Cyber Security and Electricity Markets: Risk-Based Security Design and Oversight Session Three - CHEVRON Deference: The Impact of Its Demise on Electricity Markets
March 26-27, 2019, Half Moon Bay, CA Session One - Competition in Transmission: Policy Direction and Experience Since Order 1000 Session Two - Gas and Electric Coordination: Evolution or Revolution? Session Three - Utility Liability: The Pros and Cons of Socializing Risks
June 13-14, 2019, Cambridge, MA Session One - More Renewables, Less Carbon: How Fast, How Far, and at What Cost? Session Two - Volumetric Residential Rates: Socially Progressive or Regressive? Session Three - Market Reforms for Stressed Conditions
October 1-2, 2019, Washington, D.C. Session One - Decline in Revenues: Impact on Generators and Utilities and Options for Response Session Two - California Electricity Crisis (2000-2001): Legacy and Lessons Session Three - Utilities on the Customer Side of the Meter: Issues and Challenges
December 12-13, 2019, Marana, AZ Session One - Forming Expectations for Price Formation Session Two - Coherence or Confusion: What is the Environmental Agenda for the Power Sector? Session Three - Offshore Wind: Barriers and Challenges to Meaningful Market Entry
Technological progress and public policy pressures are accelerating decarbonization of electricity supply. Increasingly, states and utilities are announcing 100% renewable, 100% clean or net zero carbon targets and mandates. With intermittent sources as the dominant source of supply, there is...
25-26 January 1999 Retail Competition in Theory and Practice. Session One - Is Retail Competition Working? A Report from the States. Session Two - Is Retail Competition Worth the Effort? Session Three -The Economics of Retail Competition.
Session One - Computational Frontiers in Electricity Markets: Not Your Grandfather's Economic Dispatch Session Two - Free Renewables and Electrictiy Markets: Can Renewables Thrive through the Markets? Session Three - EPA Clean Power Plan: What Now?
October 12-13 2017, Calgary, AB Session One-Pricing Carbon Emissions: The Promise and Pitfalls of Regional Approaches Session Two-Sustainable Capacity Markets: Too Much to Hope For? Session Three-Carbon Emissions: Does Federal Exit Result In Heightened Pressure on States to Act?
Session One - Transmission Expansion and Cost Allocation: Order 1000 Redux Session Two - Value of Solar: Shining Light on Hidden Values Session Three - Clean Power Plan: Critical State Implementation Decisions
October 13-14, 2016, Washington, D.C. Session One - Transmission Rights and Revenues Redux: Follow the Money Session Two - Deciding Market Manipulation Cases: FERC Processes, Role of Judiciary, and Policy Coherence Session Three - Counting Carbon: Pricing Greenhouse Gas Pollution in RTO Markets
March 10-11, 2016, Washington, D.C. Session One - Regulatory-Market Arbitrage: From Rate Base to Market and Back Again Session Two - Stakeholder Processes: “The Worst Form of Government, except for All the Others” Session Three - Uneconomic Dispatch?: Frontier Challenges in Dispatch and Pricing
June 1-2, 2017, Cambridge, MA Session Session One - REV and Beyond: Looking Ahead to Technology Disruption Session Two- Ancillary Service Markets: Is There a Link between Value and Price? Session Three - Re-regulation Redux? Or, Can We Sustain Competition?
March 30-31, 2017, Savannah, GA Session One - Load Serving Entities and Utility Distribution Companies: Expanding or Shrinking Role Going Forward? Session Two - Subsidies in Electricity Markets: Tilting at Windmills? Session Three - EPA Clean Power Plan Redux: What Now?
June 2-3, 2016, Cambridge, MA Session One -Interregional Transmission Services and Operations: Beyond Order 1000 Session Two Retail Rates: What Are We Missing by Perpetuating Tariffs without Meaningful Price Signals? Session Three - Clean Energy Revolution or Evolution: The Cost of Renewables
September 26-27 1996 ISO Governance and Structure: A Continuing Exploration
Section One - Where Do Pilot Programs Lead Us? Session Two - State Legislative Initiatives to Reflect or Effect Competition in tlte Electric Industry? Session Three - Regulated Past and Competitit1e Future: What Rolefor Public Power?
29-30 January 1998 Session One - International Review: Experience and Reassessments. Session Two - Retail Restructuring: Old Issues in New Guise. Session Three - Market Monitoring: Knowing Where to Look, or Looking Under the Lamppost?
Session One - Wholesale Power Markets: Problems & Solutions Session Two -Competition and Environmental Protection Session Three - The Role of the Courts in Emerging Electricity Policy
Session One - Federal Transmission Corridors The New Federal Role in Siting: Too Little? Too Much? Just Right? or Largely Irrelevant? Session Two - Monopsony Manipulation: No Cost is Too High to Get Low Prices Session Three - Risky Business: Does the Current State of Allocating Risk Allow for Optimal Ex Ante Investment Decisions in Generation and Transmission?
Session One - Distribution Infrastructure and Electricity Transformation Session Two - Transmission Planning and Certain Surprises Session Three - Copenhagen Challenges for Climate Change Policy