Plenary Sessions

Stranded Assets: This Time is Different, June 8, 2021

Stranded Assets: This Time is Different Reinhart and Rogoff subtitled This Time is Different to describe “Eight Centuries of Financial Folly” and the durability of hope over experience. Material changes in relative market economics for long-lived assets...

Clean Energy Policy: Tools and Trajectories, February 3rd, 2021

Rapporteur’s Summary* Clean Energy Policy: Tools and Trajectories The goal of clean or at least net emission free energy systems by a certain date dominates discussion of the policy agenda. The question of feasibility of such an objective, at least for...

The EPA Mercury Rule: State of the Cost-Benefit Debate; Are Generators Collateral Damage?

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...

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Scandal: Are Changes in Markets Increasing Ethical Challenges?

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, such as electricity, whose operations and...

Looking Ahead: Price Formation and Multi-Period Dispatch - June 22, 2020

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...

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Dispatching Demand: A Critical Element of Future Energy Systems, October 27, 2020

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...

97th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

96th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

95th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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

94th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

93rd Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

92nd Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

91st 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

90th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

89th 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...

Eighty-Eighth Plenary Session

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...

Eighty-Seventh Plenary Session

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...

Eighty-Sixth Plenary Session

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...

Eighty-Fourth Plenary Session

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...

Eighty-Third Plenary Session

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...

Eighty-Second Plenary Session

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...

Eightieth Plenary Session

OCTOBER 1-2, 2015 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...

Seventy-Ninth Plenary Session

June 25-26, 2015 Session 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...

Seventy-Eighth Plenary Session

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"...

Eighty-First Plenary Session

December 10-11, 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

Seventy-Sixth Plenary Session

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?

Seventy-Seven Plenary Session

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

Seventy-Fifth Plenary Session

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...

Seventy-Fourth Plenary Session

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...

Seventy-Third Plenary Session

December 12-13, 2013 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...

Seventy-Second Plenary Session

September 26-27, 2013 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...

Seventy-First Plenary Session

June 13-14, 2013 Session One - Making "Energy Only" Markets Work Session Two - Demand Response: What Is It? Session Three - Market Manipulation post Hunter vs. FERC

Seventieth Plenary Session

March 7-8, 2013 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 -...

Sixty-Ninth Plenary Session

December 6-7, 2012 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...

Sixty-Seventh Plenary Session

May 31-June 1, 2012 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...

Sixty-Sixth Plenary Session

March 8-9, 2012 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

Sixty-Fifth Plenary Session

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...

Sixty-Fourth Plenary Session

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...

Sixty-Third Plenary Session

JUNE 2-3, 2011 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?

Sixty-Second Plenary Session

FEBRUARY 24-25, 2011 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...

Sixty-First Plenary Session

December 9-10, 2010 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...

Sixtieth Plenary Session

September 30-October 1, 2010 Session One - Smarting from Resistance to Smart Grids Session Two - Transmission Cost Allocation Session Three - Carbon Emissions and Renewables: What’s Ahead?

Fifty-Ninth Plenary Session

May 20-21, 2010 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

Fifty-Eighth Plenary Session

February 25-26, 2010 Session One - Distribution Infrastructure and Electricity Transformation Session Two - Transmission Planning and Certain Surprises Session Three - Copenhagen Challenges for Climate Change Policy

Fifty-Seventh Plenary Session

December 10-11, 2009 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 -...

Fifty-Sixth Plenary Session

OCTOBER 1-2, 2009 Session One - In Search of Perfect Prices: Incremental Improvements with High Leverage Session Two - Smart Grid and Demand Response: Implementation and Pricing Issues Session Three - Siting Transmission Lines: What need of “need”?

Fifty-Fifth Plenary Session

MAY 28-29, 2009 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...

Fifty-Fourth Plenary Session

MARCH 12-13, 2009 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...

Fifty-Third Plenary Session

DECEMBER 11-12, 2008 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?

Fifty-Second Plenary Session

OCTOBER 2-3, 2008 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?

Fifty-First Plenary Session

May 29-30, 2008 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?

Fiftieth Plenary Session

February 28-29, 2008 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...

Forty-Ninth Plenary Session

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?

Forty-Eighth Plenary Session

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...

Forty-Seventh Plenary Session

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...

Forty-Sixth Plenary Session

March 15-16, 2007 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

Forty-Fifth Plenary Session

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?

Forty-Fourth Plenary Session

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...

Forty-Third Plenary Session

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...

Forty-Second Plenary Session

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...

Forty-First Plenary Session

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...

Fortieth Plenary Session

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...

Thirty-Ninth Plenary Session

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?

Thirty-Eighth Plenary Session

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...

Thirty-Fifth Plenary Session

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...

Thirty-Fourth Plenary Session

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?

Thirty-Seventh Plenary Session

December 2-3, 2004 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...

Thirty-Sixth Plenary Session

October 7-8, 2004 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...

Special Session

April 8, 2003 Session One - Defining the Output of Transmission Companies. Session Two - Drawing the Line for Transmission Investment.

Thirtieth Plenary Session

January 30-31, 2003 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.

Thirty-First Plenary Session

May 21-22, 2003 Two Scenarios: Too Much Money; Too Little Money Session One - Too Much Money. Session Two - Too Little Money. Session Three - The Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit Studies.

Thirty-Second Plenary Session

September 25-26, 2003 Session One - Setting the Standard for Standard Offers. Session Two - Regional State Advisory Committees and Grid Governance. Session Three - The Virtues of Virtual RTOs.

Thirty-Third Plenary Session

December 11-12, 2003 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...

Special Session

April 3, 2002 Session One - Spotlight on the Board: Governance. Session Two - Beyond a Standard Market Design.

Special Session

December 5, 2002 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?

Twenty-Eighth Plenary Session

May 30-31, 2002 Session One - Contracting Investment and Expanding Demand. Session Two - Standard Market Design: What Role Will the States Play? Session Three - Beyond Slicing and Dicing: Incentives for Transmission Owners.

Twenty-Ninth Plenary Session

September 26-27, 2002 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...

Twenty-Ninth Plenary Session

September 26-27, 2002 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...

Twenty-Sixth Plenary Session

September 20-21, 2001 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.

Special Session

April 4, 2001 Killing the Golden Goose? Session One - The Fallout from California. Session Two - Looking Ahead While Looking Back.

Special Session

November 30, 2001 RTOs and State of the Retail Markets. Session One - Regional Transmission Organizations. Session Two - State of the Retail Markets.

Twenty-Fifth Plenary Session

June 11-12, 2001 Session One: Siting and Eminent Domain - Is Parochialism Growing? Is it Ripe for Pre-emption? Session Two: Excess Capacity or Capacity Excesses.

Twenty-Fourth Plenary Session

February 1-2, 2001 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.

Special Session

Friday, December 8, 2000 RTOs and State of the Retail Markets. Session One - Regional Transmission Organizations. Session Two - State of the Retail Markets.

Twenty-Third Plenary Session

September 21-22, 2000 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.

Twenty-Second Plenary Session

May 22-Tuesday, May 23, 2000 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?

Special Session

March 16, 2000 Transition, A Never-Ending Process. Session One - Getting From Here to There. Session Two - Market Turmoil, Trading, and Risk Management.

Twenty-First Plenary Session

January 20–January 21, 2000 Session One - Mergermania and Public Policy. Session Two - Are we Facing a Capacity Crunch? Session Three - Regional Transmission Organizations: The Rulemaking and the Rules.

Eighteenth Plenary Session

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.

Nineteenth Plenary Session.

24-25 May 1999 Session One - Making Regional Transmission Organizations Support Competitive Electricity Markets. Session Two - The 1992 Energy Policy Act, Plus Seven Years: What Have We Learned? Where Are We Going? Where Should We Be Going? Session Three...

Special Session. -November 1999

16 November 1999 Reliability and Regional Trade. Session One - The Wholesale Market in Practice. Session Two - Reliability and Regional Trade in Theory.

Twentieth Plenary Session

23-24 September 1999 Session One - New Restructuring Legislation in the States: What is it? How will it Affect, or be Affected by, Federal Legislation? Session Two - Information Disclosure and Support of Competitive Electricity Markets. Session Three -...

Fifteenth Plenary Session

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?

Seventeenth Plenary Session

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...

Sixteenth Plenary Session.

21-22 May 1998 Session One - Stranded Costs/ Stranded Benefits. Session Two - Reliability and Inter-Regional Transfers. Session Three - Market Structure/ Retail Competition.

Special Session - 20 November 1998

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 pages.

Special Session on ISOs.-9 April 1998. HEPG

9 April 1998 Session One - Market Institutions and Operations. Session Two - ISO Governance, Regulatory Jurisdiction, Oversight, and Other Legal Issues.

Workshop April 1998

24 April 1998. Workshop on Utility Restructuring and Nuclear Power, Boston, MA (co-sponsored with Harvard University's Managing the Atom Project).

Fourteenth Plenary Plenary Session

25-26 September 1997 Session One - Transmission Scheduling: Three Traffic Cops for One Intersection? Session Two - NUG Contracts: Who's Assets? Who's Liabilities? Who's Left Holding the Bag? Session Three - Electricity Policy Issues: The Unanswered...

Special Session-10 April 1997. HEPG .

10 April 1997. HEPG Special Session. Transmission Expansion. Section One - Market Incentives and Regulatory Rules for Transmission Expansion Section Two - Institutions and Public Policy Issues in Transmission Expansion

Special Session-21 November 1997

21 November 1997 The Future of Regulation. Session One - Identifying and Defining Acceptable Levels of Competition. Session Two - Adapting Regulation to Competitive Circumstances.

Special Session-6 March 1997.

6 March 1997. HEPG Special Session. Public Sector Strategies in a Restructured Electricity Industry.

Thirteenth Plenary Session

May 16-17, 1997 Section I - ISOs: The Details Bring Issues into Focus Section II - Are There Disparate Air Quality Standards and Are They Distorting Electricity Markets? Section III - The Challenges of Implementing Retail Choice

Twelfth Plenary Session

9-10 January 1997 ISO Governance and Pricing. Session One - ISO Governance: Declaring and Honoring Independence Session Two - Designing a Competitive Retail Market Session Three - Imperfect Pricing for Imperfect Markets

21 March 1996. HEPG Special Session

21 March 1996 The ISO Governance, Scope and Rules: How Independent? What System? Which Operations? Session One - Governance, Scope and Rules: Goals, Criteria and Options Session Two - Governance, Scope and Rules: Theory and Practice

Eleventh Plenary Session.

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...

Ninth Plenary Session.

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...

Special Seminar - 14 November 1996

14 November 1996 Regional Issues Section One - Regionalism: What's the Problem? Session Two - Regional Regulation: What are the issues? What are the experiences?

Special Seminar 18 April 1996

18 April 1996. HEPG Special Seminar. Residual Monopoly Services.

Tenth Plenary Session

June 13-14, 1996 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...

Eighth Plenary Session.

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...

Seventh Plenary Session.

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

Sixth Plenary Session.

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

Special Seminar - 12 January 1995

12 January 1995 Mechanisms for Federal-State Cooperation. Session One - Problems Requiring Coordination Between State and Federal Regulators Session Two - Mechanisms For State-Federal Collaboration

Special Seminar - 18 April 1995

18 April 1995 Competition in Electricity Generation, Market Power, and Market Pricing. Session One - Setting the Stage: Objectives, Theory, and Experience Session Two - Advancing the Framework: Diagnosis and Policy Options

Special Seminar - 20 June 1995

20 June 1995 Environmental Initiatives. Session One - Access Fees and System Benefit Charges Session Two - Regulating Performance and Portfolios

Special Session - 11 February 1994

11 February 1994 Federal-State Jurisdictional Issues. Session One - Regional Transmission Groups as They Relate to State and Federal Jurisdiction Session Two - Federal-State Jurisdiction and Cost Recovery of Stranded Assets

Third Plenary Session.

13-14 January 1994 STRANDED ASSETS: TOWARDS ANALYZING THE OPTIONS Session One - Cost Allocation in Theory Session Two - Transition Costs in the Electricity Market

Special Seminar - September 23, 1994.

23 September 23, 1994. HEPG Special Seminar. The Current State of Wholesale Electricity Markets. Session One - Experiences in Evolving Wholesale Market Session Two - Competitive Market Structure: A Review of the California Debate

Fourth Plenary Session.

12-13 May, 1994 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

Special Seminar - 28 April 1994

28 April 1994. HEPG Special Seminar. Environmental Impacts of Increased Competition in the Electric Utility Industry.

Special Seminar - 15 April 1994

15 April 1994. HEPG Special Seminar. Regulatory Decision-Making Reform.

First Plenary Session.

7 July, 1993. HEPG First Plenary Session. Summary of Meeting.

Second Plenary Session

26-27 October 1993. HEPG Second Plenary Session. Transmission Costs; Vision Papers.

Special Seminar - 16 September 1993

16 September 1993. HEPG Special Seminar. The U.K. Electricity Market.

Special Seminar -30 November 1993

30 November 1993. HEPG Special Seminar. Market Operations: Comparing Gas and Electricity.

Special Session-December 16, 1993

December 16, 1993 FEDERAL-STATE JURISDICTIONAL CONFLICTS

Twenty-Sixth Plenary Session

September 20-21, 2001 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.

Eighth Plenary Session.

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...

Special Seminar - September 23, 1994.

23 September 23, 1994. HEPG Special Seminar. The Current State of Wholesale Electricity Markets. Session One - Experiences in Evolving Wholesale Market Session Two - Competitive Market Structure: A Review of the California Debate

21 March 1996. HEPG Special Session

21 March 1996 The ISO Governance, Scope and Rules: How Independent? What System? Which Operations? Session One - Governance, Scope and Rules: Goals, Criteria and Options Session Two - Governance, Scope and Rules: Theory and Practice

89th 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...

90th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

91st 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

92nd Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

93rd Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

94th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

95th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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

96th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

97th Plenary Session - Rapporteur's Report

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...

Clean Energy Policy: Tools and Trajectories, February 3rd, 2021

Rapporteur’s Summary* Clean Energy Policy: Tools and Trajectories The goal of clean or at least net emission free energy systems by a certain date dominates discussion of the policy agenda. The question of feasibility of such an objective, at least for...

Dispatching Demand: A Critical Element of Future Energy Systems, October 27, 2020

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...

Eighteenth Plenary Session

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.

Eightieth Plenary Session

OCTOBER 1-2, 2015 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...

Eighty-Eighth Plenary Session

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...

Eighty-First Plenary Session

December 10-11, 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

Eighty-Fourth Plenary Session

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...

Eighty-Second Plenary Session

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...

Eighty-Seventh Plenary Session

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...

Eighty-Sixth Plenary Session

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...

Eighty-Third Plenary Session

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...

Electrification of the Economy April 6, 2020

Virtual Session, Thursday April 6, 2020

Eleventh Plenary Session.

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...

Fifteenth Plenary Session

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?

Fifth Plenary Session.

27-28 October 1994. Session One - Wholesale Power Markets: Problems & Solutions Session Two -Competition and Environmental Protection Session Three - The Role of the Courts in Emerging Electricity Policy

Fiftieth Plenary Session

February 28-29, 2008 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...

Fifty-Eighth Plenary Session

February 25-26, 2010 Session One - Distribution Infrastructure and Electricity Transformation Session Two - Transmission Planning and Certain Surprises Session Three - Copenhagen Challenges for Climate Change Policy