June 3-4, 2004

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?

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March 1-2, 2004

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?

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December 8-9, 2005

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

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September 22-23, 2005

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?

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May 19-20, 2005

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? 

March 3-4, 2005

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

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November 30 and December 1, 2006

Session One -  Regulators: "Fired" With Enthusiasm 
Session Two - RTO: Fox or Hedgehog? 
Session Three - PUHCA Repealed!! Has Anyone Noticed?

September 21-22, 2006

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 

June 1-2, 2006

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?

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March 2-3, 2006

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?

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December 6-7, 2007

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?

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October 4-5, 2007

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 

May 31-June 1, 2007

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. 

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DECEMBER 1-2, 2011

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?

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SEPTEMBER 22-23, 2011

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?

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