Financing the Decarbonized Power Sector will familiarize Commissioners and staff with new perspectives on financing the infrastructure necessary for a low-carbon power system, including carbon capture and storage, nuclear power, utility-scale renewable resources, and transmission, and distributed resources like energy efficiency, demand response and micro-generation. In this informal workshop, panelists will examine relevant policies, identify significant barriers, and explore important financial tools and mechanisms to help regulators meet this challenge.

In the current economic environment, how will the array of capital-intensive, clean energy generation and power delivery technology investments – demanded to meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets – be financed by capital markets, and what role will regulatory policy play? This panel will address this question, as well as the catalytic role the federal government currently plays, and is anticipated to play, under the Loan Guarantee provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Moderator	Robert Gee - President - Gee Strategies Group, LLC
Panelists	Scott DeGhetto - Managing Director and Co-Head - Power & Renewable Energy Group, Credit Suisse Jon Sakoda - Partner - New Enterprise Associates Steven J. Spinner - Loan Programs Advisor, Recover Act Team - US Dept. of Energy John M. Stamos - Loan Guarantee Program Office - US Dept of Energy

This panel will examine the benefits of directed brokerage and research (i.e., nuclear decommissioning trust funds, utility pension funds, and other utility investments) and outreach opportunities to diverse emerging financial firms.

Moderator	Hon. Monica Martinez - Commissioner - Michigan Public Service Commission
Panelists	Eric Baggesen - Sr. Investment Officer of Global Equity - California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Enrique Bacalao - Assistant Treasurer - Alliant Energy Corporation Brian Chew - Director, Pension & Trust Investments - Sempra Energy Peter Corippo - Director, Investment & Benefit Finance - PG & E

Diverse and emerging financial firms will discuss the economic benefits of directed brokerage and research to ratepayers and utilities.

Moderator	Hon. Timothy Alan Simon, Esquire - Commissioner - California Public Utilities Commission
Panelists	David Finkelstein - CFA, Principal - Williams Capital Group Constance Hunter - Managing Director & Chief Economist - Aladdin Capital Holdings, LLC Lawrence G. Peruzzi - Senior Vice President-Managing Director of International Trading - Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC Steven Singleton - Executive President/Director of Research - Blaylock Robert Van, LLC

A presentation from the company's CEO whose company is the only Certified MBE in the U.S. with an end-to-end Smart Grid solution who can provide both their own Smart Grid/AMI hardware and software technology platform or act as systems integrators on any Smart Grid platform, regardless of technology.

Speaker

Sarav Periasamy - CEO - PERI Software

This session will address a number of the primary institutional and technological barriers to the wider deployment of distributed renewable power resources. It will also showcase some innovative programs that promise to facilitate and expand that deployment.

Moderator	Laurence G. Chaset - Chair - Staff Subcommittee on Electricity
Panelists	Noah Long - NRDC Kevin Fox - Partner - Keyes & Fox Cisco Devries - President - Renewable Funding Andy Schwartz - Energy Advisor to President Peevey - California PUC

The sustainable electricity future will necessarily rely on a dramatic expansion in the use of renewable and other non-polluting generation technologies. However, many of these generation technologies are either innately variable in their output (e.g., wind, solar) or are either "on" or "off" (e.g., geothermal), such that maximizing the cost-effective use of these technologies will necessitate reliance on other technologies to buffer the variation between when electrons are generated and when they are consumed.

This session will explore the potentially key role that electricity storage can play as such a buffering technology. Speakers will address the policy obstacles to increased reliance on storage technologies, the ultimate cost-effectiveness of storage and the range of revenue streams that storage technologies can provide. The speakers' presentations on the emerging role for storage will be followed by reactions from several key individuals whose work is focused on assuring grid reliability.

Moderator	Laurence G. Chaset - Chair - Staff Subcommittee on Electricity
Panelists	Paul Denholm - Senior Energy Analyst - NREL Dave Hawkins - representing - KEMA, Inc. Ed Cazalet - Vice President and Co-Founder - MegaWatt Storage Farms, Inc. Dariush Shirmohammadi - Principal/Consultant - Shir Consultants/CalWEA George Bjelovuk - Managing Director - Marketing, Research & Program Development - AEP Udi Helman - Principal, Market and Infrastructure Development - California ISO

There is broad agreement on the need to develop new technologies to help ensure an affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy future. However, promising technologies have to bridge during their development what is sometimes called "the valley of death" between the laboratory and commercialization. This panel will discuss the roles of and the potential for cooperation among government, private capital, utilities, and utility regulators in accelerating advanced research and bringing to market technologies that can help affordably meet increasing demands for energy services, while sharply reducing carbon emissions.

Moderator	Hon. Paul Centolella - Commissioner - Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Panelists	Sasha Mackler - Research Director - National Commission on Energy Policy Mark Johnson - Program Director - U.S. DOE's ARPA-e Program Rosa Young - Vice President for Technology Innovation - Electric Power Research Institute Scott Ungerer - Managing Director - EnerTech Capital Management Michael Dworkin - Professor - Vermont Law School

SAIWI will be providing education about current and future water problems and how low-cost technologies can be implemented to enact change.

Speaker

Claire Johnson - Student Association for International Water Issues

NARUC has taken some legal steps to prevent the Yucca cancellation. NARUC General Counsel will report on those actions, as well as the proposal to suspend fee payments to the Nuclear Waste Fund.

The BRC is engaged in its work to evaluate alternatives for storing, recycling and disposal of both commercial and government readioactive waste. NARUC made a presentation to the BRC to reform the Nuclear Waste Fund which is not working as intended. We also reminded the Commission of the federal liability over contracts to dispose of the waste.The BRC plans to have a draft report by July 2011 and a final report by early 2012. It is almost certain that legislation will be required.

This session will also look ahead to the prospects for new nuclear investments and have a presentation on the interest in small modular reactors.

Moderator	Hon. David Wright - Commissioner - South Carolina Public Service Commission
Panelists	Marvin Fertel - President and CEO - Nuclear Energy Institute Mike Shepherd - Vice Pres. Global Sales - Babcock & Wilcox James Bradford Ramsay - General Counsel - NARUC Hon. Greg White - Commissioner - Michigan Public Service Commission

ORAL REPORTS
* Subcommittee on Nuclear Issues - Waste Disposal, Hon. David Wright, South Carolina
* Clean Coal and Carbon Capture Subcommittee, Hon. David E. Ziegner, Indiana
* Report from the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Governing Board
* Report from NERC, Jan Schori, Member of NERC's Board of Trustees
* Electric Legal Issues Report, Brad Ramsay, NARUC
* Briefing on Energy and Climate Change Legislation Pending in the U.S. Senate, Chris Mele, NARUC
* Briefing on the California PUC's Petition for Declaratory Relief at FERC Seeking Approval of a State-Adopted Feed-in Tariff, Scott Hempling, NRRI

Moderator

Hon. Garry Brown - Chairman - New York PSC

Please join the NARUC/Dept of Energy Partnership in conjunction with the Committees on Natural Gas, Critical Infrastructure, and International Affairs to hear this notable panel of experts discuss the latest developments on LNG safety issues, the status and the potential future of the International LNG market on the US market, and the status of US LNG Regasification terminals.

Moderator	Hon. Timothy Alan Simon, Esq. - Commissioner - California Public Utilities Commission
Panelists	Mike Hightower - Distinguished Member, Technical Staff - Sandia National Laboratories Andrea Reyman-Cruz - Manager, LNG & Gas Monetization for North America & the Caribbean - Shell Energy Resources Company Darcel Hulse - Energia Costa Azul, LNG Operator Jeff C. Wright - Director, Office of Energy Projects, National View (including Canada and Mexico) on Regasification - FERC

Turf wars are emerging as smart grids and meters roll out. Electric and telecommunications utilities are clashing over the networks and the data--Who owns it. Who regulates it. Where does the information go? As the lines are drawn into the sand, this session will attempt to bring order to the debate. A panel of experts will discuss who should control the data and how privacy issues should be handled. This session will also explore the role State regulators will play and how consumers should be protected. Will consumers be comfortable with their usage data being shared and viewed amongst different parties? How much is at stake? These questions will be answered during this General Session.

Moderator	Hon. Maureen Harris - Commissioner - New York State Public Service Commission
Panelists	Hon. Phil Jones - Commissioner - Washington UTC Steve Oldham - CEO, Surewest - Chairman, USTA Michael Oldak - VP and General Counsel - Utilities Telecom Council Chris Johns - President - PG & E John Horn - National Dir. Machine-to-Machine - T-Mobile Eric Dresselhuys - Exec VP, Marketing - Silver Spring Networks

In 2009, Eligible Telecommunications Carriers were provided with approximately $4.3 billion of Universal Service Fund High Cost program support. The National Broadband Plan provides that the FCC should take action to shift up to $15.5 billion over the next decade from the current High-Cost fund program to broadband through several "common sense" reforms. This would eventually end support for voice-only networks, and would instead support a broadband platform that enables many applications, including voice, and would shift funding from existing programs to advance the universalization of broadband. The discussion will explore what these proposed reforms to the USF High-Cost fund may mean to industry, consumers, and state regulators. What will the transitional impacts be, and how can we ensure that consumers continue to enjoy and benefit from broadband and voice services that are available today?

Moderator

Hon Carlito Caliboso - Commissioner - Hawaii Public Utilities Commission

Panelists

Hon. Larry Landis - Commissioner - Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission Carol Mattey - Deputy Bureau Chief, Wireline - FCC Dr. Sherry Lichtenberg - Telecommunications Research and Policy - NRRI Earl Poucher - NASUCA Representative - State of Florida Jonathan Banks - Sr. VP, Law and Policy - US Telecom Association David Bartlett - VP, Federal Govt Affairs - CenturyLink Jackie McCarthy - Dir. State Reg Affairs - CTIA - The Wireless Association Jose Jiminez - Policy & Industry Relations - Cox Communications

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided the Department of Energy with substantial resources to fund interconnection-wide transmission planning throughout the country. In both the Eastern and Western Interconnections, major efforts are now underway to bring together stakeholders toward the goal of developing a large-scale plan for identifying the long-term transmission needs of the country. This primarily technical planning effort is accompanied by a companion process in which regulators representing the disparate regions that are being brought together in the planning effort can provide oversight and guidance to that effort.

At the same time that this interconnection-wide transmission planning effort is getting actively underway, FERC has issued a Notice of Inquiry seeking comment on the extent to which barriers may exist that impede the reliable and efficient integration of variable energy resources into the electric grid and whether reforms are needed to eliminate those barriers. Indeed, many regulators at the state level are as concerned as FERC is that increasing reliance on intermittent renewable resources could cause reliability concerns if it is not accompanied by the simultaneous adoption of complementary technologies that will provide considerably more real time information, better weather forecasting, enhanced system buffering capability and quicker demand response than is currently available on a large scale.

This session will explore the challenges posed by these major policy initiatives. In particular, the session will address the progress being made by control area operators in the development of new tools and techniques and of creative tariff provisions, which, in the aggregate, will speed the process of planning for system growth and reliability and allow grid operators in both traditional and organized markets to respond to the rapidly changing physical and regulatory environment in which they operate.

Keynote Speaker: Hon. Jon Wellinghoff - Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Moderator	Hon. Garry Brown - Chairman - New York PSC
Panelists	Dr. Keith Casey - Vice-President, Market & Infrastructure Development - California ISO Hon. Marsha Smith - Commissioner - Idaho PUC Jim Shetler - AGM, Energy Supply - Sacramento Municipal Utility District Mike Cashell - Chief Transmission Officer - NorthWestern Energy

Continuation of Morning Session

Moderator	Hon. Erin O'Connell-Diaz - Commissioner - Illinois Commerce Commission
Panelists	Hon. Lauren Azar - Commissioner - Wisconsin PSC Doug McLaughlin - General Manager, Transmission Planning - Southern Company Craig Glazer - Vice-President, Government Policy - PJM John Bear - President and CEO - Midwest ISO David Whiteley - Principal - Whiteley BPS Planning Ventures LLC

All former Gas Committee Chairs in attendance at the summer meetings are asked to participate in this panel:

Moderator	Hon. Stan Wise - Commissioner - Georgia Public Service Commission
Panelists	Hon. Robert W. Keating - Commissioner Emeritus, Former Gas Chair Hon. Donald L. Mason, Esq. - Commissioner Emeritus - President, All American Energy Partners