Texas Senator Highlights Austin Gathering Of National Energy Marketers Association Spotlighting Success of Texas Market

The National Energy Marketers Association announced that Robert "Bob" Hall III, Texas State Senator for District 2, will provide a keynote address at NEM's Fall Leadership Roundtable, to be held October 26 to October 28, 2016 in Austin, Texas

Among other committee appointments, Hall served on the Senate's Natural Resources and Economic Development Committee during the last session. Hall has also been a leader on grid security issues

The NEM conference provides a forum to ask Hall, who has championed expanding free-market principles, why there has not been an effort in the Senate to restart the transition to competition at Southwestern Public Service and Entergy Texas, given that, unlike 10 years ago, these utilities are now in "day 2" RTO markets, as the ostensible reason for a delay in the transition to competition was the lack of a viable wholesale market for such service areas.

As previously reported, Texas PUC Chair Donna Nelson will also provide a keynote address.

NEM also listed other newly confirmed speakers for NEM's Austin Fall Leadership Roundtable conference as including:

• Pat Wood, III, Principal, Wood3 Resources

• Jere Thompson, Jr., Co-Founder & CEO, Ambit Energy

• Larry Mondry, President and CEO of Stream

• Prashant Mupparapu, Senior Managing Director, Head of Commodity Solutions, Macquarie

• Erin M. O'Connell-Diaz, Senior Fellow Governing Institute-President FutureFWD, Inc., Former Commissioner, Illinois Commerce Commission

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

• Pierre Koshakji, Senior Managing Director, Stream Energy

• Gerry Haggarty, President and CEO, SFE Energy Inc., President and CEO, Summit Energy,

• Bill Kinneary, President, North American Power

• Kevin McMinn, Chief Operating Officer, USG&E

• John R. Werner, President, Source Power & Gas LLC

• Darin Cook, CEO & Co-Founder, Infinite Energy

• John Burke, CIO, Ambit Energy

• Craig Tropea, Director, Customized Energy Solution

• David Sibley, Principal, Sibley Group

Previously confirmed speakers include:

• Barry Smitherman, Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP, former PUCT Chair

• Bill Magness. President and Chief Executive Officer, Electric Reliability Council of Texas

• Catherine J. Webking, Partner, Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP

• Stephen J. Davis, President, Alliance for Retail Markets

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