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If they lose market rates ... what will markets be like?

AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD
Presented on February 25, 2005

Your price:  $150

Hear from this panel of industry experts as they explore what happens if FERC solves market power question by ending market rates for big utilities:

• William Hogan, professor of public policy and Administration, John F Kennedy School of Government

• Susan Kelly, vice president of policy analysis and general counsel, American Public Power Association

• Christine Tezak, senior vice president, Stanford Washington Research Group

• David Cruthirds, attorney at law and regulatory consultant, The Cruthirds Report

• Moderator: George Spencer, editor, Restructuring Today

George guides the panel in addressing questions, such as:

• If Southern and Entergy lost the ability to choose market prices, how would its rates be set?

• How would the market react to loss of market rates by such large firms?

• What is the likelihood that FERC would prevail in court?

• Generators have complained of grid owner behavior, such as:
-- Delay or preclude access to transmission service
-- Delay transmission upgrades or expansions
-- Refuse to provide network access to competitors
-- Provide discriminatory access to information
-- Preferential dispatch of utility or affiliate-owned generation
-- Provide preferential and less costly transmission or dispatch
services or opportunities to affiliates
Will ending market rates cure those ills?

MEET THE SPEAKERS

David Cruthirds
Attorney at Law and Regulatory Consultant
The Cruthirds Report

David Cruthirds is licensed to practice law in the state of Texas, which enables him to appear before state public utility commissions in states throughout the southeast.

Cruthirds gained widespread recognition for his knowledge and insights into the operation of competitive energy markets during his 6 years with Dynegy Inc, where he was vice president and regulatory counsel.

Cruthirds established his legal and regulatory consulting practice in March 2002.

Typical clients include independent power producers, transmission-dependent utilities and others who are interested in the advancement of competitive wholesale and retail natural gas and electricity markets in the southeast US.

He specializes in state public utility commission issues, but is also well versed in issues being addressed by the FERC.

Successful management of regulatory risk must begin with timely knowledge and an awareness of the very latest regulatory developments. Belief in the axiom "knowledge is power" led Cruthirds to create The Cruthirds Report to inform and alert companies, organizations and individuals to the very latest regulatory developments. Timely access to critical information empowers people to act promptly to reduce their regulatory risk and protect their interests.

Cruthirds´s legal skills, his extensive "hands-on" experience and a compelling writing style results in reports that inform, challenge and engage readers about the contemporary regulatory issues facing the industry.

William Hogan
Lucius N Littauer Professor of Public Policy and Administration
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Professor Hogan is research director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HEPG), which is exploring the issues involved in the transition to a more competitive electricity market.

He is director of The Repsol YPF - Harvard Kennedy School Fellows Program for energy policy research. In addition, he serves as director of graduate studies for the PhD Program in Public Policy and the PhD Program in Political Economy and Government at the Kennedy School of Government. He has also served as chair of the Public Policy Program and as director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center.

Hogan has been actively engaged in the design and improvement of competitive electricity markets in many regions of the US, as well as around the world, from England to Australia. His activities include designing the market structures and market rules by which regional transmission organizations, in various forms, coordinate bid-based markets for energy, ancillary services and financial transmission rights. This research is also part of the larger activities of the Environment and Natural Resources Policy Program.

He was a member of the faculty of Stanford University where he founded the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) and is a past president of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE).

Susan Kelly
Vice President of Policy Analysis and General Counsel
American Public Power Association

Susan Kelly joined the American Public Power Association (APPA) in September 2004 as its vice president of policy analysis and general counsel. She assists APPA and its members in energy policy formulation and with policy advocacy before the FERC, federal courts, and other governmental and industry policy forums.

Much of her time is spent on wholesale electric restructuring matters, including generation and transmission market power issues, market-based rate policy, open access transmission terms and conditions, and formation of regional transmission organizations.

From 1998-2004, Kelly was a principal with the Washington, DC law firm of Miller, Balis & O'Neil, PC. She represented cooperatively and publicly-owned electric utilities and their trade associations, as well as other governmental entities, assisting them with restructuring-related issues before the FERC, federal appellate courts and state public utility commissions.

From 1995-1998, Kelly served as the senior regulatory counsel for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). She represented NRECA before the FERC, state public utility commissions and courts, and served as a liaison from NRECA to many industry groups.

Kelly was also with Miller, Balis & O'Neil, PC from 1982-1995. During that time, she represented publicly-owned gas distribution systems before the FERC, and advised them on issues related to the restructuring of the gas industry, including contract negotiations with gas suppliers and transporters.

She was employed from 1980-1982 as an associate with the Washington, DC law firm of Crowell and Moring.

She is a member of the DC Bar, numerous federal appellate court bars and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Kelly is a frequent speaker on energy-related topics. She has given presentations to many industry groups, including the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, the Energy Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the National Council of State Legislatures, the Consumer Federation of America, the DOE-NARUC Electricity Forum, the Electricity Consumers Resource Council, EEI-Energy Daily, EXNET, Platts, New Mexico State University's Center for Public Utilities, the APPA, the NRECA, the American Gas Association and the American Public Gas Association.

Christine Tezak
Senior Vice President, Electricity, Natural Gas & Environmental Policy
Stanford Washington Research Group

Christine Tezak covers the electricity sector and environmental policy at the Stanford Washington Research Group, which provides political, economic and industry research for institutional and corporate investors.

Tezak has followed environmental policy for eight years and has assumed responsibility for the electric utility sector. Her environmental background provides a unique perspective as energy and environmental issues continue to converge.

She is a five-term board member, and current vice president of the Washington, DC-based Women's Council on Energy & the Environment. She is also a member of the

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