Big, positive changes are happening in the California energy market and support for competitive markets is growing rapidly in the West.

Explore the exciting new developments in the outlook for the West on this 90-minute audio CD.

You'll learn answers to today's major market design questions

• Is the election of Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger the main driver?

• Bottom line, if parochialism is the main obstacle to developing markets, how do we address it?  Any hope in that direction?

• How should the market be structured?  How close is the western market to functional now?

• What drivers determine a healthy market?  How do we get there?  Is financial stability near?  What's needed to get there?

• How does California's MD 02, the California ISO plan to design a market, fit in with developing western markets and federal policy?

• What are the obstacles to developing western markets now?

• One school of thought is that the West has had a vibrant power market for many years without FERC's fostering one.  If so, why do they need FERC?

• Western opposition to FERC line siting is ferocious.  How can that be approached?

• More than 50% of the power lines in Arizona are owned by public power, a community frightened at the concept of discipline of the marketplace.  How should that be approached?

• Is the development of western markets a threat to the hidden subsidies in cheap hydropower?  Should federal agencies sell their power at market rates in fairness to US taxpayers or should taxpayers get less than market rates to subsidize the Northwest?

• And much, much more.

EXPERT SPEAKERS

• Commissioner Nora Brownell was nominated by President George W Bush to serve on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 2001.  FERC regulates and oversees energy industries in the economic and environmental interest of the American public.

• Joe Desmond is Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger's energy adviser. He'll play a key role in getting markets going in the West -- supported by the governor who made free markets an issue on his website when the recall movement began.

• Commissioner Mike Gleason is a key regulator at the Arizona Corporation Commission comes with a National Association of Regulatory Commissioners (NARUC) perspective.

• Vicki Sandler is president of APS Energy Services.  She brings a marketing perspective to the panel.

• Jackson Mueller is a Redmond, Wash adviser to industrial and other large energy buyers.  He's active in West Coast markets and Texas.

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