SPEAKERS

	Marsha Smith Commissioner Idaho PUC, 1st VP NARUC		Cathy Woollums Senior Vice President, Environmental and Chief Environmental Counsel MidAmerican Energy Holdings
	Patrick Oshie Commissioner Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission		Don Mason Commissioner Ohio PUC
	Roger Duncan Deputy General Manager Austin Energy		Mark Brownstein Managing Director of Business Partnerships Environmental Defense
	Kevin Leahy Managing Director, Climate Policy Duke Energy		Ron Binz Chairman Colorado PUC
	Mary Anne Sullivan Partner; Former General Counsel, DOE Hogan & Hartson		David Lewin Senior Vice President, IGCC Development; Chair, Canadian Clean Power Coalition EPCOR
	Raiford Smith Director, Product Development and Strategy Duke Energy		Isaac Berzin Founder and Chief Technology Officer GreenFuel Technologies Corporation
	Joe Nation Lecturer Public Policy, Stanford Univ., Member Market Advisory Committee, Principal Co-Author AB32 Joe Nation & Associates		John Baker Chief Strategy Officer Austin Energy
	Steve Corneli Vice President, Market, Regulatory and Climate Policy NRG Energy		Derek Furstenwerth Director, Air Resources, Environmental Department Reliant Energy
	Paul Grimmer President Eltron Research and Development		Paul Allen Senior Vice President Corporate Affairs Constellation Energy
	William Stark Senior Consultant - Energy Asset Consulting R W Beck,Inc.		Robert Wyman Partner Latham & Watkins LLP
	Christopher Poirier President and CEO CoalTek		Dennis Arfmann Partner Hogan & Hartson
	Richard Frappa Vice President and Principal Hydrogeologist GeoMatrix Consultants		Ray Hobbs Senior Consulting Engineer Arizona Public Service
	Robert Eriksen Environmental Compliance Administrator Basin Electric		Stephen Mooney Co-Founder Carbonetworks
	Lauren Buehler Assistant General Counsel Xcel Energy		Josh Margolis co-CEO CantorCO2e, LP
	Mark Rolfes Project Manager Big Stone II Otter Tail		Greer Tidwell Jr. Director of Environmental Management; Chair, Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board Bridgestone / Firestone
	Mike Weedall Vice President, Efficiency Bonneville Power Administration		Hal LaFlash Director, Renewable Energy Policy and Planning P G & E
	Larry Myer Scientist Energy Resources Program Leader Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory		Mark Bernstein Ph.D., Visiting Faculty, Department of Political Science Future Fuels and Energy Initiative,USC
	Christian Larsen Vice President of Generation EPRI		Audrey Chang Staff Scientist Natural Resources Defense Council
	Michael W. Pontbriand ManagerCO2Amine Commercialization Alstom Power		Nicholas Lenssen Practice Director, Distributed and Renewable Energy Energy Insights
	Heidi VanGenderen Sr. Advisor on Climate Change & Energy Office of the Governor of Colorado		Bill Riggins Vice President, Environment and General Counsel Kansas City Power & Light
	Anna Marie Wood Senior Policy Analyst; Co-chair, EPA Advanced Coal Technologies Working Group US Environmental Protection Agency		John Harju Associate Director for Research Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), Univ of North Dakota
	Genevieve Young Petroleum Geologist Colorado Geological Survey		Andy Dvoracek Senior Client Manager EcoSecurities
	Tom Plant Director Colorado Governor's Energy Office		Jim Sims Founder/Senior Adviser Nextgen Energy Council

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM (Reception to Follow)

Preparing for Change: Advancing Technologies and Impending Policy in a Carbon Constrained Environment

• Climate change from the perspective of the utilities – re-accessing costs, constraints, and strategies going forward
• Opportunities and quagmires from state, municipal, and regional initiatives and the path to a national carbon policy
• The choice of actions in the convergence of advancing technologies and impending policies

Panelists:

Marsha Smith, Commissioner, Idaho PUC; 1st Vice President, NARUC

Mark Brownstein, Managing Director, Partnerships, Environmental Defense

Mary Anne Sullivan, Former General Counsel, DOE: Partner, Hogan and Hartson LLP

Steve Corneli, Vice President, Market, Regulatory, and Climate Policy, NRG Energy

Anna Marie Wood, Senior Policy Analyst, US Environmental Protection Agency


Wednesday, June 20, 2007

8:00 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks of the Conference Chair

8:10 AM
The Climate Case: Constraining CO2 Emissions from a Climate Change Time line

• Climate change for the utilities/power industry and areas of positive action
• The climate case perspective on urgency in developing a comprehensive plan and practical direction for next generation power

• Evaluating regional, state, and municipal responses and the path to a national policy

Moderator: Tom Plant, Director, Colorado Governor's Energy Office

Panelists:
Mark Brownstein, Managing Director of Business Partnerships, Environmental Defense

Audrey Chang, Staff Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council

Heidi VanGenderen, Senior Advisor, Climate Change & Energy, Colorado Governor's Energy Office

Roger Duncan, Deputy General Manager, Austin Energy


9:00 AM
The Business Case: Designing a Carbon Strategy to Support Cap and Trade and Carbon Offset Markets

• Top level buy-in: senior management preparing for cap and trade / future mandatory carbon controls
• Developing an overall carbon financial strategy
• Reducing carbon through integrating resources, efficiency and financial offset strategies

Moderator:
Josh Margolis, co-CEO, CantorCO2e

Panelists:

Kevin Leahy, Managing Director, Climate Policy, Duke Energy

Steve Corneli, Vice President, Market, Regulatory, and Climate Policy, NRG Energy

Bob Wyman, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP

9:50 AM
The Technology Case: Challenges of Carbon Sequestration and Advancing R & D

• EPRI will present their framework for R&D needs in the future to meet the challenge of a carbon constrained future.
• EPRI will discuss some findings from recent work on economic and performance attributes of advanced generating technologies

Chris Larsen, Vice President, Generation, Electric Power Research Institute

10:40 – 11:15 AM
Networking Refreshment Break

11:15 AM
Considerations and Actions by Utilities and Regulators that Can Help Lower Carbon Initiatives Succeed

• When will a federal policy happen and how to deal with overlapping initiatives from local, state, and regional government; and how this will impact relationships with regulators
• Discussion of requirements to further efficiency initiatives to substantially reduce the demand side including incentive rewards for utilities

Moderator:

Mary Anne Sullivan, Partner, Hogan & Hartson LLP; Former General Counsel, DOE

Panelists:

Marsha Smith, Commissioner, Idaho PUC; 1st Vice President, NARUC

Patrick Oshie, Commissioner, Washington WUTC

Cathy Woollums, Senior Vice President Environmental and Chief Environmental Counsel, MidAmerican Energy Holdings

Paul Allen, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Constellation Energy

12:30 – 1:40 PM

Lunch for Delegates – Topic Tables


1:40 PM
Critical Design Factors for a Successful Cap and Trade Market

• What has been learned so far
• Downstream versus Upstream
• Allowances versus Auctions

Panelists:

Josh Margolis, co-CEO, CantorCO2e

Bob Wyman, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP

Joe Nation, Lecturer, Public Policy, Stanford University, Member, Market Advisory Committee, Principal co-author AB32

1:40 PM

(Concurrent Breakout Session)

Sequestration Advances and Practical Challenges for First Operating Plants with Carbon Storage

• Review of the state of sequestration from a geological standpoint
• Sequestration advanced solutions beyond EOR

Moderator:

Audrey Chang, Staff Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council

Panelists:

Larry Myer, Scientist, Energy Resources Program Leader, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Genevieve Young, Team Leader, Site Characterization Group, Southwest Partnership
Petroleum Geologist, Colorado Geological Survey

John Harju, Associate Director of Research, Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), Univ of North Dakota


2:30 PM
Sequestration: Permitting and Managing Risks and Liabilities

• CSS similarity to existing natural gas storage projects and enhanced oil recovery projects
• Managing known CSS risks through proper permitting with monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting tools
• Utilizing existing regulatory mechanisms and existing monitoring/recordkeeping/reporting
• NUMBY, leakage and potential regulatory and liability challenges
• Promoting CSS by federal government assuming future liabilities "incentivising" utilities

Moderator:

Dennis Arfmann, Partner, Hogan & Hartson LLP

Panelists:

Lauren Buehler, Assistant General Counsel, Xcel Energy

Mark Brownstein, Managing Director of Business Partnerships, Environmental Defense

Anna Marie Wood, Senior Policy Advisor, EPA; Co-Chair, Advanced Coal Technologies Working Group

3:20 PM
Carbon Capture-Ready and Sequestration for New Generation Power Plants and FOAK (First of a Kind)

• Case study of proposed EPCOR IGCC Initiative with Carbon Capture and Sequestration

David Lewin, SVP, IGCC Development, EPCOR; Chair, Canadian Clean Power Coalition

3:50 PM
IGCC versus PC and Carbon Capture & Sequestration

• A new timely look at this choice given the current technology and policy outlook
• Comparing with and without Sequestration
• Regional differences and quality constraints

Moderator:

Chris Larsen, VP Generation, EPRI

Panelists:

William Stark, Lead Environmental Engineer, R W Beck

Michael Pontbriand, Manager, C02 Amine - Commercialization , Alstom Power

David Lewin, SVP, IGCC Development, EPCOR, Chair, Canadian Clean Power Coalition

Mark Rolfes, Project Manager, Big Stone II, Otter Tail


4:40 PM
Networking Refreshment Break

5:10 PM

Identifying, Quantifying and Lowering Carbon Emissions from Existing Plants with Retrofitting Technologies

• Quantifying of CO2 emissions from existing plants
• Cost assessments of retrofitting existing plants and latest technologies being considered

Moderator:

Steven Mooney, Co-Founder, Carbonetworks

Panelists:

Bob Eriksen, Environmental Compliance Administrator, Basin Electric

Michael Pontbriand, Manager, C02 Amine - Commercialization , Alstom Power


6:00 PM
Chairman Close of Day One




Thursday, June 21, 2007

8:00 AM
Day Two Opening Remarks of the Conference Chairman
• Feedback from Day One


8:15 AM
The Fifth Fuel: Efficiency Approaches leading to Substantial Reductions in Demand and Projections for New Generation

• A review of new and existing efficiency approaches from Duke and BPA
• Conservation, demand response, save a watt models, alternatives to decoupling.

Panelists:

Mike Weedall, VP, Efficiency, Bonneville Power Administration

Raiford Smith, Director of Product Development and Strategy, Duke Energy

9:00 AM
Regulatory Issues and Cost Recovery Challenges in New Generation Alternatives

• A discussion with PUC Commissioners
• Cost recovery and regulation with IGCC and nuclear planning

Panelists:

Ron Binz, Chairman, Colorado PUC

Don Mason, Commissioner, PUC of Ohio

9:45 AM

Reviewing Advanced CCS and Clean Coal Technologies Including those Just Coming on the Radar Screen

• Chilled ammonia and other scrubbing technologies
• Algae used as a scrubbing technology for CO2 emissions
• Pre-combustion and post-combustion approaches
• Coal gasification IGCC technologies for CSS

Panelists:

Issac Berzin, Founder and CTO, GreenFuel Technologies Corp

Christopher Poirier, President and CEO, CoalTek

Paul Grimmer, President, Eltron Research and Development

Ray Hobbs, Senior Consulting Engineer, Arizona Public Service

10:35 AM
Networking Refreshment Break


10:55
Partnering with the Public and Customers: Engaging the Public and Customers in Securing the Benefits of Electrical Power in a Carbon Constrained Future

• The challenges climate change and other supply issues will pose to the continued reliable and economical provision of electrical power
• How can electrical utilities involve the public and their customers in effective climate change discussions?
• What partnerships can be developed with these stakeholders to address carbon limit challenges?
• What customer programs can utilities undertake to approach climate change from a demand-side perspective?

Moderator:

Mark Bernstein, PhD, Visiting Faculty, Department of Political Science, Future Fuels and Energy Initiative, USC

Panelists:

John Baker, Chief Strategy Officer, Austin Energy

Bill Riggins, Vice President, Environmental and General Counsel, Great Plains Energy/Kansas City Power & Light


11:45 AM
Integrating Renewable Sources within the Portfolio

• Integrated resource planning for the future and the challenge of public and regulatory policies
• Understanding the emerging trend of utility ownership of new renewable projects
• How renewable energy can be used as a utility hedge against fuel-price uncertainty and carbon - constraining polices


Panelists:

Hal LaFlash, Director, Renewable Energy Policy and Planning, P G & E

Nicholas Lenssen, Practice Director, Distributed and Renewable Energy, Energy Insights (an IDC Company)

12:30 – 1:30 PM
Lunch for Delegates


1:30 PM
Strategies to Shift the Organizational Culture and Integrate Departments to Support Climate Change Initiatives

• Enlisting the whole organization and gaining cooperation across technical, operations, finance and customer service
• Top challenges for senior executives in galvanizing change within the organization

Panelists:

Greer Tidwell, Director, Environmental Management, Bridgestone / Firestone, Chair, Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board

Derek Furstenwerth, Director, Air Resources, Environmental, Reliant Energy


2:15 PM
Next Generation Lower Carbon Power: A Thirty Year Time Line

• Key issues the power industry must address now to meet future time lines
• Key issues the policymakers and the public must face on the realities of technology development timelines and the potential higher costs of a carbon constrained world
• Managing the complexities and uncertainties of federal, regional, state, and municipal public policies
• Deciding the levels necessary for continuing public and private R & D support
• impacting public policy for a carbon constrained future through educating the public on the transmission and other needs critical to renewable and low carbon generation

Panelists:

Joe Nation, Lecturer, Public Policy, Stanford University, Member, Market Advisory Committee, Principal co-author AB32

Andy Dvoracek, Senior Client Manager, EcoSecurities

Jim Sims, Founder/Senior Advisor, NextGen Energy Council

Other Panelists forthcoming


3:00 PM
Closing Remarks of the Conference Chair

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It is no longer about whether global warming
is true or not. The Power Industry is
accepting that it is a reality that we have to
deal with. The focus is becoming more and more
about reassessing costs and where technologies
are heading. Just in the last few months, this
has the active attention of senior management.

Paraphrasing of conversations with
Environment Directors from Electric Utilities.


The Next Generation Lower Carbon Fuel & Power Summit will provide an excellent opportunity to move these issues forward.

It is the only Summit to bring all these issues (and people) together in one place focused upon the needs of the utility/power industry executives for accurate and