8:00 a.m.

• Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 a.m.

• Welcome and Introductions
• 
  Carmen L. Gentile

• Partner
  Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

9:00 a.m.

Energy Legislation and the New Administration

• What priorities for energy legislation will the Obama Administration pursue?
• What developments can we expect under new DOE and FERC leadership – and when?
• What are the front burner issues for electric utilities under new administrative and Congressional leadership?
  
  

Edward H. Comer

Vice President and General Counsel
• Edison Electric Institute

9:45 a.m.

Negotiating Uncertain Economic Waters



Financial Chaos, Worldwide Recession, Failing Industries

• How will the financial crisis impact the electric industry's ongoing need to secure capital for infrastructure development?

A Utility Perspective: Doing Business in a Slumping Economy

• How is the current crisis altering "business as usual" for generating, transmitting and load serving utilities?
• 
  A Regulatory Perspective: Overseeing Business in a Slumping Economy
• How will the current and anticipated market conditions affect the way regulators approach ratemaking, rate of return, and incentive policies?
• Do unprecedented financial conditions suggest unprecedented regulatory strategies?
  
  

• A Financial Perspective: Financing the Power Business in a Slumping Economy
• Can DCF still yield reasonable results? Is it time to look at other criteria?

Carmen L. Gentile
Partner
Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

Linda S. Kizuka
Associate
Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

Geoffrey O. Lubbock
Vice President, Financial and Strategic Planning and Policy
NSTAR Electric and Gas Corporation

William Avera
President
FINCAP, Inc.

10:15 a.m.

• Refreshment Break

10:30 a.m.

Negotiating Uncertain Economic Waters (cont.)

11:15 a.m.

Renewable Resources / Conflicting Pressures

• How will reduced economic growth and increased hurdles for transmission expansion affect the deployment of renewable resources?
• How do renewables fare in times of lower fossil fuel prices?
• Are interconnection and transmission pricing practices keeping pace with the emphasis on renewable generation?
• What FERC initiatives are likely in its pursuit of new renewable generation?
  
  

• David E. Goroff
  Partner
  Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

  Giuseppe Fina

  Associate

  Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

Robert Gramlich
Policy Director
American Wind Energy Association

12:15 p.m.

• Luncheon and Keynote Address

• The Honorable Suedeen G. Kelly
  Commissioner
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

1:30 p.m.

Fueling and Interconnecting the Next Wave of Electricity Generation


Fuel Options – Where Political Strategy, Economic Reality and          Regulatory Policy Intersect

• How does regasified LNG fit into the world’s fuel mix and the nation’s options for cost-effective fuel supply to electric power producers? What are the impediments and advantages to increasing our imports of LNG?
• What is the future of new gas, coal and nuclear generation as part of the growth mix? How will lower growth forecasts, floundering financial markets and fluctuating fuel prices affect the relative mix of these resources?
• How can we expect FERC’s policies to influence these issues?

Interconnection Policies and Procedures – More is Needed to Accommodate New Generating Resources

• The revised Midwest ISO interconnection procedures – What are they and how do they score on a short-term report card?
• How are the interconnection procedures changing in PJM, ISO-New England and the California ISO?
• Non-jurisdictional utilities – How are the interconnection queue procedures being reformed in a non-FERC environment?
• How can we expect FERC to affect these issues?
• 
  

  J. Ben Crisp
  Director, System Planning & Regulatory Performance
  Progress Energy Florida

• J. Michel Marcoux
  Partner
  Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

• Peter K. Matt

• Of Counsel
  Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.
  

Sveinung Støhle
President and CEO
Höegh LNG

2:55 p.m.

How NOT To Do a Rate Case

• What are the eight top things you should not do to prepare and litigate a FERC rate case?
  

Thomas L. Blackburn
Partner
Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

3:15 p.m.

• Refreshment Break

3:30 p.m.

Another Spin of the Mobile-Sierra Wheel

• When is a contract not a contract?

James H. McGrew
Partner
Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

3:45 p.m.

Compliance in a Changing World

• What principal problems have NERC and RRO audits identified?
• What tools will NERC and FERC use to address violations of reliability criteria?
• How can utilities liberalize their procedures and personnel separations under FERC’s revised Standards of Conduct?
• How does FERC decide who and what to audit?
• What should you expect when the FERC auditors come knocking?
• What can your company do today to avoid compliance problems tomorrow?
  

Nicole S. Allen
Associate
Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

Antonia A. Frost
Partner
Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

Jesse Y. Halpern
Associate
Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P.

Kenneth A. Nickolai
Hearing Officer

Midwest Reliability Organization and ReliabilityFirst

4:45 p.m.

The BGM Players

• A pedagogic theatric in one act on the burning issues of our day
  

5:00 p.m.

Cocktail Reception