Wholesale Market Inefficiencies To Be Focus of National Energy Marketers Association Restructuring Conference

The National Energy Marketers Association annual restructuring conference, to be held April 30-May 1, will include a focus on recent wholesale market issues and inefficiencies.

One of the NEM panels will examine, "Constraints, Inefficiencies And Shortages," experienced this winter, including possible factors causing extreme market prices

Additional panels will examine the regulatory impulse to "correct" market prices, and the "utility of the future" -- one focused on grid modernization rather than the merchant function.

See a full agenda here

Confirmed speakers include:

NY PSC Chairman Audrey Zibelman

MD PSC Commissioner Lawrence Brenner

ICC Commissioner Sherina E. Maye

PUCO Commissioner Steven D. Lesser

NJPBU Commissioner Joseph L. Fiordaliso

DC PSC Chairman Betty Ann Kane

MI PSC Chairman John D. Quackenbush

GA PSC Commissioner Stan Wise

GA PSC Commissioner Tim G. Echols

FL PSC Commissioner Lisa Polak Edgar

FERC Acting Chairman Cheryl LaFleur

FERC Commissioner Philip Moeller

FERC Commissioner Tony Clark

CFTC Commissioner Scott D. O'Malia

PJM Executive Vice President Andrew L. Ott

NYISO Chief Operating Officer Rick Gonzales

PA OCA Acting Consumer Advocate Tanya McCloskey

Maryland Senate Deputy Majority Leader Catherine Pugh

Eric Matheson, PAPUC Staff

Calvin Timmerman, MDPSC Staff

Obi Linton, MDPSC Staff

Dynegy Chairman Pat Wood

Harry Warren, President, Washington Gas Energy Services

Bill Kinneary, President, North America Power

Phil Van Horne, CEO, BlueRock Energy

Dan Verbanac, President, Integrys Energy Services

Chris Hendrix, Director of Markets & Compliance Wal-Mart Stores

Pierre Koshakji, Senior Managing Director, Stream Energy

U.S. Congressman Tim Murphy

U.S. Congressman John Shimkus

U.S. Congressman Jim Matheson

U.S. Congressman G. K. Butterfield

U.S. Congressman Leonard Lance

Andrew N. Kleit, Chair, Program in Energy Business and Finance, Penn State