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Date: September 20, 2017
Location:
University of Missouri
Columbia, MODescription:
The 2017 Symposium will examine the many issues associated with redesigning state and federal utility regulation to better serve the needs of customers and producers of the 21st century. It will ask the critical question of whether the present regulatory paradigm is adequate to meet current technological, customer, environmental, and market challenges. The Symposium will be built around three panels, with each examining the sufficiency of the current regulatory contract from a different perspective.
In addition to the three panels listed below and a Commissioner Spotlight, this year's Symposium will also feature a CEO Panel.
Panel I: Managing the Federal/State Regulatory Interface
The first panel will explore the tension between federal and state regulation and will seek to identify areas where collaboration is most useful.
Panel II: Balancing Access with Affordability in Regulatory Design
The second panel will focus on rising customer expectations regarding utility service and how regulation must better balance the desire for access with the need for a return to invested capital.
Panel III: Innovation & Redesign in the Regulatory Process
The third panel will discuss how regulatory processes might innovate and reinvent given the challenges of new technologies, renewables, and the extensive need for infrastructure recapitalization.Contact: Sarah Gott, gotts@missouri.edu
Date: September 20, 2017
Location:
The Ritz Carlton Astana
Astana, KazakhstanDescription:
This flagship event is hosted by the Energy Regulators Regional Association, a voluntary organization of independent energy regulatory bodies primarily from the Central European and Eurasian region,with affiliates from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the U.S.A. It is an excellent opportunity for a dialogue between the regulators and other stakeholders on the latest regional issues, trends, and developments in the energy industry.
Contact: Energy Regulators Regional Association Secretariat, secretariat@erranet.org
Dates: October 2-5, 2017
Location:
Hilton Crystal City
Arlington, VAContact: Kathy Burr, kathy@opsi.us
October 9 - October 13, 2017
Location:
Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown
Albuquerque, NMDescription:
Each separate, concurrent week-long course is specifically designed to capture the nuances of the electric and natural gas distribution industries and includes the following topics:
- Industry Technology
- Industry Structure and Regulation
- Revenue Requirements
- Class Cost-of-Service
- Energy Efficiency & Electric Net Metering
- Rate Design
- Process & Procedures of a Rate Case
These two separate courses will give attendees practical analytical skills needed to understand the topics covered as well as an integrated framework showing how they fit together. Through a combination of lectures, discussion, and integrated problems, these courses will give the attendees the analytical skills necessary to be more productive in the changing utility environment.
Attendees with less than one year's experience in the regulatory arena and anyone wishing to obtain a basic understanding of the principles involved should attend one of these courses.
This course is also being offered at the same location May 21 - May 25, 2018.
Contact: Cindy Blume, cblume@nmsu.edu
Dates: October 9-13, 2017
Location:
University of Wisconsin: Pyle Center
Madison, WIContact: Cara Lee Mahany Braithwait, samb@wpui.org
Date: April 15-18, 2018
Location:
Eldorado Hotel
Santa Fe, NMContact: Jeanette Walter, Jeawalte@nmsu.edu
May 21 - May 25, 2018
Location:
Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown
Albuquerque, NMDescription:
These two separate, concurrent week-long courses are specifically designed to capture the nuances of the electric and natural gas distribution industries that include the following topics:
- Industry Technology
- Industry Structure and Regulation
- Revenue Requirements
- Class Cost-of-Service
- Energy Efficiency & Electric Net Metering
- Rate Design
- Process & Procedures of a Rate Case
These two separate courses will give attendees practical analytical skills needed to understand the topics covered as well as an integrated framework showing how they fit together. Through a combination of lectures, discussion, and integrated problems, these courses will give the attendees the analytical skills necessary to be more productive in the changing utility environment.
Attendees with less than one year's experience in the regulatory arena and anyone wishing to obtain a basic understanding of the principles involved should attend one of the courses.
Contact: Cindy Blume, cblume@nmsu.edu