New York Independent System Operator

Keynote Speaker

Marc Spitzer
FERC Commissioner
Bio

 

 

Panel Discussions

Panel 1:  Grids Without Walls - Developing Broader Regional Markets

• Moderator - Garry A. Brown , Chairman, NYS Public Service Commission
  • Gordon van Welie , President and CEO, ISO-New England.
  • Terry Boston, President and CEO, PJM Interconnection
  • Steven Whitley, President and CEO, NYISO
  • Kevin Burke, President and CEO, Consolidated Edison
  • Kevin Cahill, Chair, NYS Assembly Energy Committee

The panel will focus on the value of enhanced coordination among regional power markets as well as the benefits and challenges associated with improving regional market efficiency.  Specific topics may include:

• Market Efficiencies and Consumer Benefits
• Promises of a Broader Regional Market
• Barriers to Trade and Challenges to Overcome
  

Panel 2:  The Carbon Constrained Economy

• Moderator - Paul A. DeCotis , Vice President of Power Markets, LIPA
  • Arshad Mansoor , Vice President of Power Delivery and Utilization, EPRI
  • Gavin J. Donohue , President and CEO, IPPNY
  • Senator George Maziarz , Chair, NYS Energy Committee
  • Frank Murray , President and CEO, NYSERDA
  • Marilyn Brown, Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, member of the National Academies of Science Board on Energy and Environmental Systems
  • Odin Knudsen , Managing Director of Carbon Strategy and Business Development, JP Morgan

The panel will focus on technology, challenges and benefits associated with green house gas emission reduction initiatives
(i.e. Cap/Trade, Carbon Tax, ‘80x50’.  Specific topics may include:

• Visioning future electricity markets under an ‘80 x 50’ plan
• Collaborative efforts to develop and deploy electric technologies within greenhouse gas emissions constraints
• Can higher electricity prices and increased energy efficiency lead to lower energy costs and a cleaner environment?
• New sources of energy and the planning path for implementation
• Shifting academic emphasis to support the development of sustainable energy markets and technologies

Panel 3:  Transmission Planning in the United States: The Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative and the Value of Enhanced Interregional Planning

• Moderator - Maureen Harris , Commissioner, NYS Public Service Commission
  • Tom Congdon , NYS Deputy Secretary for Energy
  • David Whiteley , Executive Director, Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative (EIPC)
  • Patricia Hoffman , Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
  • William Hogan , Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Research Director, Harvard Energy Policy Group
  • Mary Ellen Paravalos , Vice President, Transmission Regulation and Commercial Services, National Grid

The panel will focus the value of the collaborative process for developing expanded interregional planning. Specific topics may include:

• Providing a path for greater interconnection-wide coordination of grid development
• Creating a Northeast “Clean Energy Corridor”
• Integrating clean and renewable energy resources
• Efficiencies, opportunities and policy impacts (benefits of ‘bottom up’ approach, respecting State/Regional policies)
• Cost allocation issues