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?
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
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
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
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. ...
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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
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?
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
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 - 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?
27 September 1995 Reliability, Capacity Requirements and the Obligation to Serve in a More Competitive Market.
Session One - NERC Reliability Assessment, 1995-2004: Findings and Issues Session Two - Revisiting Reliability Requirements in a More Competitive Electricity Market. Session Three - Regulation, Incentives and Markets: Approaches to Ensuring Reliability
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...
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
27 September 1995 Reliability, Capacity Requirements and the Obligation to Serve in a More Competitive Market.
Session One - NERC Reliability Assessment, 1995-2004: Findings and Issues Session Two - Revisiting Reliability Requirements in a More Competitive Electricity Market. Session Three - Regulation, Incentives and Markets: Approaches to Ensuring Reliability
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?
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...
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.
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
21 November 1997 The Future of Regulation. Session One - Identifying and Defining Acceptable Levels of Competition. Session Two - Adapting Regulation to Competitive Circumstances.
16 November 1999 Reliability and Regional Trade. Session One - The Wholesale Market in Practice. Session Two - Reliability and Regional Trade in Theory.
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
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. ...
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
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.
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?
Two Scenarios: Too Much Money; Too Little Money Session One - Too Much Money. Session Two - Too Little Money. Session Three - The Costs and Benefits...