National Energy Marketers Association Announces Speakers, Agenda for April Restructuring Conference

The National Energy Marketers Association announced confirmed speakers and an agenda for its 18th Annual National Energy Restructuring Conference to be held April 30 through May 1 in Washington, DC.

Conference sessions are to address:

• Lessons Learned from 2014 and Improvements in Products, Customer Services and New Technologies

• Redesigning Retail Energy Markets to Meet the Needs of Future Energy Consumers

• Redesigning Wholesale Energy Markets for Reliability and Price Certainty – The New Energy

• Performance Products and FERC Enforcement Actions

• Adding Value to the Marketplace

• Wholesale and Retail Electricity Markets: Balancing Reliability and Affordability

• Policy Official and Market Reactions to the Polar Vortex

• Presentation of NEM Awards for Achievements in Competitive Energy Markets

Confirmed speakers include:

NY PSC Chairman Audrey Zibelman

MA DPU Chairman Angela O’Connor

PA PUC Commissioner James H. Cawley

PA PUC Commissioner Gladys Marie Brown

PUCO Commissioner Steven D. Lesser

GA PSC Commissioner Tim G. Echols

MD PSC Commissioner Anne Hoskins

NJ PBU Commissioner Dianne Solomon

NJ BPU Commissioner Upendra J. Chivukula

DC PSC Chairman Betty Ann Kane

MI PSC Chairman John D. Quackenbush

RI PUC Commissioner Paul J. Roberti

FLPSC Commissioner Lisa Polak Edgar, President of NARUC

NCUC Chairman Edward Finley

FERC Commissioner Philip Moeller

FERC Commissioner Colette Honorable

CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad

MD Senate Deputy Majority Leader Catherine Pugh

PJM Executive Vice President Andrew L. Ott

NYISO Sr. Vice President Rana Mukerji

PJM Market Monitor Dr. Joseph Bowring

Former FERC Chairman – Jon B. Wellinghoff

Former FERC Commissioner – Marc Spitzer

Columbia University Professor, NJBPU Commissioner Emeritus, Jeanne M. Fox

PAPUC Staff, Eric Matheson

MDPSC Staff, Calvin Timmerman

MDPSC Staff, Obi Linton

MIPSC Staff, Sheila Cornfield

MIPSC Staff, Heather Cantin

Chair, Executive Committee: Chris Hendrix (Director of Markets & Compliance, WalMart)

1st Vice Chair, Executive Committee: Pierre Koshakji (Senior Managing Director, Stream Energy)

2nd Vice Chairs, Executive Committee: Matthew Picardi (Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Shell Energy, N.A.)

Membership and Strategy Co-Chairs: Gerry Haggarty (President & CEO, SFE Energy), Carl Williams (President, Entrust Energy)

CleanGrid Advisors, President, Harry Warren, NEM Chair 2007-2009, NEM Vice Chair 2006-2007, NEM Director

North American Power, President, Bill Kinneary, NEM Chair 2006-2007, & 2012, NEM Director