REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Registration opens at 8:00 a.m. Program begins at 8:45 a.m.

• 8:45 a.m.
• WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

• Carmen L. Gentile
  BRUDER, GENTILE & MARCOUX, L.L.P.

9:00 a.m.

RELIABILITY STANDARDS, COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT

· How will NERC interact with FERC, Regional Entities,
RTOs and electric utilities in overseeing compliance with
reliability standards, penalties and enforcement?

· How do NERC’s reliability standards affect the industry
and what are the best compliance strategies?

· How are RTOs and utilities meeting the new NERC
requirements and what difficulties do they face?

Thomas T. Bowe
Executive Director, Reliability Integration
PJM INTERCONNECTION, LLC

David Cook
General Counsel
NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORPORATION

Barbara Hindin
Associate General Counsel
EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE

10:15 a.m.

REFRESHMENT BREAK

10:30 a.m.

ORDER 890 “ATTACHMENT K” PLANNING REQUIREMENTS

· What are FERC’s expectations for the joint planning process? How do the planning requirements relate to other FERC
initiatives?

· How are RTOs implementing Attachment K planning? How
are reliability standards and demand response integrated into Attachment K planning? Does the RTO replace the
transmission owner for local planning?

· Does Order No. 890 implicitly create planning requirements
for new generation? How does Attachment K affect competition, stakeholder rights and the allocation of costs? 

Shelton Cannon
Director, Office of Energy Markets Regulation
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

John P. Buechler
Executive Regulatory Policy Advisor
NEW YORK INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR, INC.

Carmen L. Gentile
BRUDER, GENTILE & MARCOUX, L.L.P.

11:25 a.m.

CARBON REDUCTION

· Are carbon reduction mandates part of our future? Is “green” power procurement feasible? Is “cap & trade” preferable to a
carbon tax?

· How successfully can wind and other intermittent generation
be integrated into the resource mix?

· To what extent will nuclear generation and demand response
contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

· Carbon sequestration and other new technologies - can coal be “green”?

· How is FERC addressing carbon reduction?

Marc Chupka
Principal
The BRATTLE GROUP

Frank Clemente

Senior Professor of Social Science and Energy Policy

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY

Clair J. Moeller
Vice President, Transmission Asset Management
MIDWEST INDEPENDENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEM OPERATOR, INC.

David E. Goroff
BRUDER, GENTILE & MARCOUX, L.L.P.

12:30 p.m.

LUNCHEON & KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The Honorable Philip D. Moeller
Commissioner
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

2:00 p.m.

FERC’S ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM AND USE OF CIVIL PENALTIES 

· What is FERC’s perspective after receiving enhanced civil
penalty authority in the Energy Policy Act of 2005?

· What are the potential strategies for responding to and
defending a penalty assessment?

· What is the status of jurisdictional conflicts between FERC
and the CFTC regarding enforcement authority? Could an
entity be subject to double jeopardy through punishment by both agencies for the same conduct?

Anna Cochrane
Deputy Director, Office of Enforcement
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

James H. McGrew
BRUDER, GENTILE & MARCOUX, L.L.P.

2:50 p.m.

SELF-AUDITS FOR FERC COMPLIANCE         

• · What is hot on FERC’s audit list?
  
• · Are you complying with OATT, OASIS, energy market
  manipulation, EQR, Standards of Conduct and Code of Conduct requirements?
  

Thomas L. Blackburn
BRUDER, GENTILE & MARCOUX, L.L.P.

Antonia A. Frost
BRUDER, GENTILE & MARCOUX, L.L.P.

3:25 p.m.

REFRESHMENT BREAK

3:40 p.m.

EMERGING AND EVOLVING FERC ISSUES

• · How is the industry handling the flood of generator interconnection requests? What changes should FERC make to interconnection queuing policies?

· Are FERC’s policies regarding incentive rates and transmission pricing likely to impact new construction?

• 
  · What are the implications of FERC’s rehearing Order No. 890-A?
• 
  · What are FERC's new requirements governing market-based rate authorizations?

Peter K. Matt

BRUDER, GENTILE & MARCOUX, L.L.P.

William D. Booth

BRUDER, GENTILE & MARCOUX, L.L.P.

Giuseppe Fina
BRUDER, GENTILE & MARCOUX, L.L.P.

4:40 p.m.

THE BGM PLAYERS

A pedagogic theatric in one act on the issues confronting the
electric industry

5:00 p.m.

COCKTAIL RECEPTION

Hosted by Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P