EBA’s Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting
April 14, 2005 Washington, D. C.
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EBA4/05-01 |
WELCOME: Stephen L. Huntoon, President, EBA, Florida Power & Light Co. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Jason Grumet, Executive Director, National Commission on Energy Policy |
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EBA4/05-02 |
GENERAL SESSION I: Global Energy Market Challenges and Ramifications for the Energy Bar: World energy demand is increasing at unprecedented rates due in part to global population growth and economic expansion in China and India. Projected increases in industrialization, electrification and automobile ownership contribute to this demand and to increased emissions. Petroleum reserves may soon peak. Needed energy projects will cost tens of billions of dollars per year. These factors present new policy, environmental, economic and supply challenges that will be addressed by this panel. Todd Onderdonk, Norma Formanek, Philip Mihlmester, Jerry Bloom, Moderator: Michelle Michot Foss, Ph.D. |
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EBA4/05-03 |
GENERAL SESSION II: Legislative Process - Perspective and Predictions: Major, comprehensive energy legislation has been pending in Congress for over four years now. With some expectation that passage will occur in this Congress, this panel will explore the challenges in passing comprehensive energy legislation in the current political and business environment. What are the realities of the political process and what are the best means to achieve legislative reform will be just two of the areas explored. Leon Lowery, Philip R. Sharp, Jeanne Connelly, Rick Shelby, Moderator: William L. Massey |
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EBA4/05-04 |
SESSION A: Regulation for the Future: Are the 1930s era Federal regulatory statutes and methods flexible enough to fit the current and future reality of the electric and natural gas industries? PUHCA, the Federal Power Act and the Natural Gas Act are all statutes from another era that regulators, courts and companies strain to apply to current industry structures and technologies. Can or should the filed rate doctrine, cost of service rates, and other regulatory techniques of a by-gone era be preserved, adapted, or jettisoned for other methods? What are the regulatory methods most appropriate for the future? The Honorable Richard D. Cudahy, Philip M. Marston, Susan N. Kelly, Moderator: Andrea C. Wolfman |
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EBA4/05-05 |
SESSION B: Large Scale Development of Renewable Energy Projects: Increasingly, Congress and the States are adopting incentives and mandates for the development of large scale renewable energy projects. FERC is also in the process of amending transmission tariffs and wholesale market policies to promote the interconnection of intermittent generators and to enable the integration of intermittent generation into wholesale markets. At the same time, the States and the industry are working to create renewable energy credit trading policies and platforms to permit the "green" attributes of wind and other renewable generation to be traded independently from the energy itself. This panel will discuss how these developments will affect future efforts to finance and develop new large-scale renewable energy projects and how they might effect other users of the transmission system and wholesale power markets. Gregory G. Pavin, Gary Thompson, Ronald Lehr, Moderator: Jay Morrison |
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EBA4/05-06 |
SESSION A: Gas Quality and Interchangeability Issues: In certain areas, the periodic decreases in natural gas processing as well as a changing gas supply mix that includes increased LNG have caused significant concern for the natural gas industry with respect to the need to ensure system integrity, operational reliability and environmental compliance, while maintaining adequate gas supplies for consumers. This panel will explore the technical issues surrounding gas quality and interchangeability issues, and possible policy and legal solutions to addressing gas quality needs of the industry in the future. Jay Ellzey, III, Michael E. McMahon, Bob Wilson, Moderator: Andrea R. Hilliard |
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EBA4/05-07 |
SESSION B: Retail Markets of the Future: Many states are coming to the end of their early transition programs to competitive retail markets. Several of these have issued orders or reports evaluating the state of those markets and planning future transitional steps or improvements. Several are also actively evaluating whether and how competition may occur in electric supply acquisition between developing wholesale markets and traditional rate-based generating plant development. This Panel will discuss the issues confronted in these retail market developments, including a growing willingness to permit competition between the merchant and regulated supply models. Jeffrey E. Stockholm, Janine L. Migden-Ostrander, John J. Finnigan, Jr., Jon Moore, Moderator: Edward C. Hurley |
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EBA4/05-08 |
SESSION C: Broadband over Powerlines: The industry-internal applications of BPL, especially the ability to create an intelligent and perhaps self-healing electric grid, are of great interest to FERC and may prove to be the driving force behind widespread deployment of BPL technology. The panel will address this aspect of BPL, which is usually overshadowed by the commercial broadband capability of the technology. The federal, state and local regulatory issues that have yet to be resolved concerning the deployment of BPL include cross-subsidization, universal service obligations, rights-of-way and pole attachment issues. The panel will address these policy questions and the directions the regulators are likely to take. Matt Oja, Charlie Zdebski, Alan Scrime, David N. Tobenkin, Moderator: The Honorable Nora M. Brownell |
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EBA4/05-09 |
DINNER SPEAKER: The Honorable Suedeen G. Kelly, Commissioner, FERC |
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