PRELIMINARY AGENDA for Electricity Transmission Conference
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DAY 1: |
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2004 |
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7:30 a.m. |
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE/TEA |
8:30 a.m. |
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION |
Lester Lave, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University; |
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| Marija Ilic, Depts. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University | |
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8:45 a.m. |
T&D Challenges and Vision for the Future |
| Paul Joskow, Dept. of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
9:15 a.m. |
Commentary |
Ernie Moniz, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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9:30 a.m. |
Commentary |
| Ed Holland, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Southern Company | |
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9:45 a.m. |
Discussion |
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10:15 a.m. |
BREAK |
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10:30 a.m. |
A Bold Vision for T&D |
| Kurt Yeager, Retired CEO, EPRI | |
11:00 a.m. |
Beyond Today’s Transmission Technologies |
| Lionel Barthold, Retired CEO, PTI | |
11:30 a.m. |
T&D Operation and Control: Time for a Paradigm Shift? |
Felix Wu, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong, and University of California at Berkeley |
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12:00 p.m. |
Discussion |
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12:30 p.m. |
LUNCH |
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1:30 p.m. |
Evolving Electricity Markets and Transmission Congestion |
| Bill Hogan, Center for Business and Government, Harvard University | |
2:15 p.m. |
Paying for Transmission |
| Lester Lave, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University | |
2:45 p.m. |
Financing Transmission Investments |
| Gary Krellenstein, JPMorgan | |
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3:15 p.m. |
Discussion |
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3:30 p.m. |
BREAK |
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3:45 p.m. |
The Transmission Business and Customer Value in the Age of RTOs |
| Michael Calviou, National Grid Company | |
| Paul Kleindorfer, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Mary Ellen Paravalos, National Grid Company | |
4:15 p.m. |
Challenges to a Secure Electric Power Grid |
| Patrick Laird, VP, Exelon Corporation, Chicago | |
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4:45 p.m. |
Panel |
| Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon - Panel Chair | |
| Michael Golay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Presenter | |
| J. Scott Magrane, Coady Diemar Group, LLC - Presenter | |
| Thomas Lenard, Progress and Freedom Foundation - Presenter | |
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7 p.m. |
DINNER |
| (Location to be announced) |