Federal Electricity Regulation and Alternative Energy

December 14, 2005

Program Information
If you are having any problems call CEEP-Deirdre Murphy at deirdre@ceepinc.org or (518) 432-6400 ext. 225 or Robyn Stewart at (518) 432-6400 ext. 221

Please e-mail questions to Baird Brown of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP at baird@ballardspahr.com. Please start sending in questions in advance of the program.

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Presentation Materials

Table of Contents and Agenda

1. Speaker Biographies

2. Moderator C. Baird Brown, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
Introduction: The Law of Unintended Consequences

3. Paul Belval, Day, Berry & Howard, LLP
REC’s RTO’s and RPS’s: The Three R’s of Renewable Energy

4. Scott Harvey, Director, LECG
Federal Electricity Regulation and Alternative Energy: The Good the Bad and the Ugly

5. David Kathan, Senior Economist, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FERC’s Role in Demand Response

6. Scott Sklar, President, The Stella Group
Distributed Generation and Federal Electricity Regulation

7. New York City, Stuart Caplan, White & Case LLP (local NY speaker- you will not hear him if you are not in NYC)
Renewable Energy Development: The Interplay among State Programs, FERC and ISO/RTO Markets

8. REC Tracking Systems:
http://www.pjm-eis.com/
http://www.nepoolgis.com/
http://www.texasrenewables.com/
http://www.gpisd.net/mrets/main.htm
http://www.westgov.org/wieb/wregis/
https://www.wirrc.com/rrc/index.html

9. FERC’s recent notice concerning a proposed survey of demand response and advanced metering and an upcoming demand response technical conference http://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/common/opennat.asp?fileID=10871093

10. FERC 2004 State of the Markets Report
http://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/Files/20050615093455-06-15-05-som2004.pdf

11. Additional Reference Material:
Learning from the Fed: Lessons for Federal Electricity Regulation, C. Baird Brown, The Electricity Journal, April 2005

12. Press Releases:
New PJM Standard Eases Small Generators' Access to Wholesale Markets
Commission Issues Standard Rule For Small Generator Interconnection; Action Will Facilitate Needed Infrastructure Development

We invite you to join the committee; we welcome non-lawyers. E-mail bhaight@mfgll.com

We invite you to join in the Committee’s work on molding individual State RPS programs into an effective national driver for renewables development with a focus on finance, technology and the environment. For more information or to work on this, contact the Committee Chair, Roger Feldman at rogerfeldman@andrewskurth.com

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