13th Annual Energy Roundtable

Name: 13th Annual Energy Roundtable
Start: 2013-04-23T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2013-04-23T23:59:59+00:00
Location: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)

April 23, 2013
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)

The AAI marks its 13th Annual Energy Roundtable1 by gathering experts in antitrust and regulation from government, industry, academia, and advocacy to discuss major competition policy issues involving electricity and energy. This year’s roundtable will examine major recent developments in transmission and how they will likely affect wholesale market competition and benefits to consumers. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 1000, the advent of merchant transmission, and independent transmission ownership are likely to have consequences for transmission access, planning, reliability, and wholesale market competition. Another nascent trend – consolidation among transmission owners – highlights changes in the organization of this key segment of the electric power industry. Transmission mergers also pose questions about competitive effects and analysis, the extent to which consolidation poses challenges to existing access and Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) policies, and potential merger-related efficiencies.

The day will open with a discussion of transmission planning, access involving merchant transmission, and the coexistence of the vertically-integrated and independent transmission ownership models. We will address how these developments potentially affect competition in wholesale markets, RTO policies, and FERC’s long-standing commitments to non-discriminatory grid access and regional planning. The afternoon session will examine antitrust issues relating to transmission, including transmission market power and how competition enforcers might analyze transmission mergers. Issues include evidence on the effects of comparable mergers, potential competitive effects, and efficiencies. We will also address how the scope and intensity of potential concerns over transmission market power will be shaped by the regulatory overlay of RTOs and the functional control their exercise over transmission.

The AAI thanks the sponsors of this event:

American Public Power Association
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

9:00 am

INTRODUCTION

Diana Moss, Vice President and Director, American Antitrust Institute

9:10 am

THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Dave Mohre , Executive Director, Energy and Power Division, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

9:40 am

MORNING PANEL: Recent Transmission Developments and Their Implications for Wholesale Competition

Jennifer Vosburg, President, Louisiana Generating LLC; Senior Vice President for the Gulf Coast Region, NRG Energy, Inc.

Mason Emnett, Deputy Director of the Office of Energy Policy and Innovation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Sue N. Kelly, Senior Vice President of Policy Analysis and General Counsel, American Public Power Association

11:00 am

DISCUSSION

12:00 pm

LUNCHEON AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Sharon K. Segner, Assistant Vice President, LS Power Development, LLC

1:00 pm

AFTERNOON PANEL: Antitrust Issues Involving Transmission

Paul M. Sotkiewicz, Chief Economist, Markets, PJM Interconnection

Jade Eaton, Attorney, Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (tentative)

Johannes P. Pfeifenberger, Principal, The Brattle Group

2:30 pm

DISCUSSION

3:30 pm

CLOSING REMARKS AND ADJOURN

Mohre Presentation

Kelly Presentation

Summary

Pfeifenberger Presentation

13th Annual Energy Roundtable

April 23, 2013 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)

INTRODUCTION

THE YEAR IN REVIEW

MORNING PANEL: Recent Transmission Developments and Their Implications for Wholesale Competition

DISCUSSION

LUNCHEON AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER

AFTERNOON PANEL: Antitrust Issues Involving Transmission

DISCUSSION

CLOSING REMARKS AND ADJOURN

April 23, 2013
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)