8:30 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.

 Keynote Address:  Challenges for a Comprehensive National Electricity Policy

• Paul Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Presentation

9:45 a.m.

Panel:  Electricity Restructuring:  Success or Failure?

•  Thomas Lenard, President, Technology Policy Institute (moderator)

• Jay Apt, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering and Public Policy

Presentation

• Tim Brennan, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future

Presentation

Referenced Paper

 

• Tim Mount, Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

Presentation

• Nancy Rose, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presentation

11:00 a.m.

Panel:  The Supply Challenge:  How Can We Meet It?

•  Scott Wallsten, Vice President for Research, Technology Policy Institute (moderator)

• Tom Fanning, Chief Operating Officer, Southern Company

• Howard Gruenspecht, Deputy Administrator, Energy Information Administration

Presentation

• William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Presentation

• David Owens, Executive Vice President, Edison Electric Institute

Presentation

12:30 p.m.

Lunch:  Energy Policy:  The View from the Presidential Campaign

• Kenneth Berlin, Senior Campaign Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy, Obama campaign

• Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Chief Domestic Policy Advisor, McCain campaign

2:00 p.m.

Panel:  The Intersection of Telecommunications and Electricity Markets - New Technologies for Meeting Energy Needs

• Ray Gifford, Chairman, Technology Policy Institute, Partner, Kamlet Shepherd, former Chairman, Colorado PUC (moderator)

• Walter Curt, Owner, Power Monitors Inc.

• Kathryn C. Brown, Senior Vice President for Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility, Verizon

Presentation

 

• Jim Ferland, Senior Vice President, PNM Resources