Edison Electric Institute/DOE
US/Russia Electricity Markets Conference
February 24-27, 2003, HamiltonCrownePlaza
1001 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005
DRAFT AGENDA (as of 1/23/19)
Day
/ Time / Activity / SpeakersMonday, February 24 / 12.00-3.00 / Air and SpaceMuseum Tour or Site Visits
5.00-6.00 /
Registration
6.00-8.00 / Welcome Reception / Vyacheslav Sinyugin, Deputy CEO, RAO UESUnder Secretary Robert Card, DOE
John Easton, EEI
Tuesday
February 25 / 7.30-5.00 /
Registration
7:30-8:30 /Continental Breakfast
8.30-9.00 / Welcome and Opening Remarks / John Easton, EEIVyacheslav Sinyugin, Deputy CEO, RAO UES
Deputy Sec. Kyle McSlarrow, DOE
9.00-10.30 / Foreign Experience in Russian Electricity Market Model / Experiences and Trends of Competitive Wholesale Markets / Under Secretary A. SharonovMichael Oldak, EEIPhil Moeller, Sr. Manager-Public Affairs, Alliant
Marce Fuller, Mirant
10.30-10.45 /
Coffee Break
10.45-12:15 / Utilities Growth Perspective - Retail Strategies / Experiences and Trends of Competitive Retail Markets / V. Avetisyan, CEO, MIMEC (or A. Sannikov, CEO, Nitznovenergo) Michael McGrath, EEIJohn Derrick, Chairman & CEO, Pepco Holdings Inc.Paul Russell, Associate GC, PP&L
Steve Schaeffer, Reliant/Centerpoint
12:15-12:30 / Break
12.30-1:15 /
Lunch
TuesdayFebruary 25
(cont.) / 1:15-2:00 / Federal Energy Policy Implications: SMD, RTOs / Chairman Pat Wood, FERC
2:00-2:15 /
Coffee Break
2.15-3.45 / California Experience: Lessons Learned and Federal Actions /Ed Comer, EEI
John Bryson, Edison International (unconfirmed)
Dr. Charles Cicchetti, Univ. of Southern CaliforniaCommissioner Nora Brownell, FERC
3:45-4:00 /
Coffee Break
4.00-5:30 / Ensuring Compliance with Anti-monopoly Legislation / Issues of Manipulation in Electricity Markets / Under Secretary A. GolomolzinRichard McMahon, EEIBill Hogan, Harvard (or Phil Sharp)Bill Hederman, FERC
5:30-7:00 /Break
7:00-9:00 /Dinner
Day / Time / Activity / SpeakersWednesday,
February 26 / 8:00-9:00 /
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30 /Approaches to Transmission and Generation Unbundling in Russia / Experiences and Trends of Transmission and Generation Unbundling
/U. Udaltsov, UES
Jim Fama, EEI
Fred Buckman, TranselectJose Delgado, American Transmission
John Howe, American Superconductor
10:30-10:45 /
Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 /Infrastructure Launching Issues / Establishment of Transmission Grid Operation in a Competitive Wholesale Market
/D. Ponomarev, Chairman of the Trade System Administrator
Tony Anthony, EEI
Jimmy Glotfelty, DOEBill Museler, NYISO
Phil Harris, PJM
12:15-12:30 /
Break
12:30-1:00(in lunch room) / Deregulation from a Turbine Company’s Perspective / John Rice, CEO, GE Turbines
1:00-2:00 /
Lunch
2:00-2:15 /Post-lunch Break
2.15-3.45 / Competitive Electricity Market Organization – Beginning Stage / Experiences of Utility Regulators in the Deregulation Process / E. Yarkin, Deputy FEC ChairmanBranko Terzic, DeloitteDave Svanda, Michigan PSC
Jim Kerr, NC PUC
Glen Thomas, PA PUC
Maureen Helmer, NYPSC
J. Connelly, MA Dept. of Telecom and Energy
Day / Time / Activity / Speakers
Wednesday,
February 26
(cont.) / 3.45-4.00 /
Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 / Changing Financial Markets: Investor Confidence, Markets Analyses, Rating Agencies / David Hirn, RAO-UES Board of DirectorsRonald Seeholzer, EEIChristine Tezak, Schwab Capital MarketsPeter Rigby, Standard and Poors
5:30-6:00 /
WRAP UP SESSION – UES input
6:00-6:30 /Break
6:30-7:30 /Dinner at KennedyCenter
7.00-11.00 /KennedyCenter Performance
Thursday, February 27 / All Day / Site VisitsPJM, TVA / Craig Glazer, Director of Regulatory Affairs, PJM
Justin Maierhofer, TVA
Contacts
- MTH = Matthew Hastings, EEI at 202 508 5091, cell 202 297 6128,
- JC = Ambassador James Collins, Akin Gump at 202 887 4066,
- BT= Branko Terzic, Deloitte at 703 251 4350,
- LW= Logan Walters, DOE, at 202 586 4967,
- JG= Jimmy Glotfelty, DOE at 202 586 8478,
- AP= Angela Piscitelli, DOE, at 202 586 6531,
- JD= Joanne Dickow, DOE at 202 586 1275,
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