National Energy Marketers Association To Convene National Restructuring Conference

The National Energy Marketers Association will convene its 19th Annual National Energy Restructuring Conference April 13 through April 15, 2016 in Washington, DC.

The agenda will include an emphasis on the recent New York PSC "full stop" retail markets order and actions by NEM and member ESCOs to contest the PSC's order, including litigation.

Link to NEM conference details and registration

Additional sessions on the agenda include:

2016 Retail Energy Markets – Keynote Commissioner Speakers from the New England, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Southeastern States

• Reports on significant recent legislative and regulatory issues in key restructuring jurisdictions, including consumer protection rules; marketing standards; consumer education; licensing requirements; reporting, notice and disclosure requirements; and regulatory compliance and enforcement actions.

• Regulators to share their vision of the future, the needs of their constituents and how growth in retail markets for energy and related services and technologies can aid regulators in achieving their goals.

• Empowering consumers with timely access to usage information can stimulate economic growth and technological innovation. Distributed Energy Resources and value-added services are merely the first steps in the coming energy technology revolution

Rewriting the Rules of the "Monopoly Game" to Level the Competitive Playing Field and Benefit Consumers. From Boardwalk & Park Place to Baltic Avenue – New Energy Services and Technologies Can Stimulate Economic Growth and Enhance Consumer Welfare.

This panel will explore successful measures that have been employed to change the rules of the traditional "Monopoly Game" to provide meaningful opportunities for greater choice and consumer shopping (POR/UCB/SCB/Data Access). What can incent utilities to partner with retail marketers to better serve consumers?

• Do Not Pass Go -- Barriers to Market Entry

• Chance Card -- Managing Regulatory Risks, Solar Credits and Net Metering

• Free Parking -- Utility Default Service

• Get Out of Jail Free Card -- State Action Doctrine

• Community Chest -- Utility Rate Subsidies, Licensing Fees, DER Penalties

Energy and Technology CEO Panel – Strategies for Consumer Success – Satisfied Consumers Are Our Best Customers

• Insights into how leading retail energy marketers and technologists are finding new ways to bring value to the consumer. Strategies for managing change in the customer relationship. Future vision of where the competitive marketplace is headed.

The Explosion in Value-Added Energy Services and Technologies

Consumers are poised to realize an explosion in innovative Energy Services and Technologies

This roundtable will explore the federal and state initiatives enabling and incenting market innovation as well as remaining barriers to increased development and deployment of advanced technologies.

• Impact of the Supreme Court decision upholding FERC Order 745 on wholesale and retail demand response deployment

• New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding, and like proceedings in other states, aimed at achieving increased consumer engagement with Distributed Energy Resources provided by competitive entities

• Review of the Texas electric market structure and how it has enabled retailers to provide consumers with the most diverse value-added service offerings

• Renewal of federal solar tax incentives, and the impact of reduced prices for self-generated power and other retail solar "penalties."

• Attaining compliance with EPA’s Clean Power Plan with competitively provided retail products