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Picture Energy: Everybody Was There at the USEA

Everybody was there when the United States Energy Association held its fourteenth annual State of the Energy Industry Forum on January 18 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Take a look. You'll spot American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard, American Public Power Association CEO Sue Kelly, Edison Electric Institute President Tom Kuhn, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association CEO Jim Matheson, Electric Power Supply Association CEO John Shelk, American Council on Renewable Energy CEO Greg Wetstone.

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Picture Energy: WIRES Winter Meeting, February 15

Held at the Canadian Embassy, the aptly-named association for transmission development headed by former FERC Chair Jim Hoecker, WIRES, put on a show on spurring grid buildout. Among the speakers were Nina Plaushin of ITC, Tom Kuhn and Lawrence Jones of EEI, Sergio Marchi of the Canadian Electricity Association, and Clair Moeller of MISO.

Several speakers voiced strong support for the energy provisions (Chapter Six) of the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, currently being negotiated by the U.S., Canada and Mexico. To modernize it, but certainly to maintain the Chapter.

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Talking Texas Markets, Part 2

Thought, Legislative and Regulatory Certainty

Interviews with Pat Wood, Former FERC and Texas PUC Chair; Kenny Mercado, SVP, CenterPoint; Jim Steffes, EVP, Direct Energy; and Ken Medlock, Senior Director, Center for Energy Studies, Rice University.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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Price Responsive Demand

Economic Experiments

It is little wonder why so many commissions prefer a regulatory model that shields most consumers (especially residential) from real time market volatility.
Byline: 

Tony Clark

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