Renewable Energy Monthly Brown Bag Seminar

Invitation to the National Teleconference/Brown Bag for Lawyers and Non Lawyers

Presented by

THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
Renewable Energy Resource Committee

"Conversation with the Commissioner: FERC’s Perspectives on Distributed and Renewable Energy in the post-Energy Policy Act of 2005 Environment"

March 9, 2006 – NEW DATE

The massive Energy Policy Act of 2005 (“EPAct”), signed into law last summer, created major changes in the law relating to the national electricity grid and its regulation. The law also created significant challenges for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which was assigned a Congressional “do-list” of at least twenty statutory tasks related to the electricity system several of which are of great importance to distributed and renewable energy resources. Among other things, EPAct revised the 1978 law governing federal policy about cogenerators and small power producers, and changed the federal role in siting new electric transmission lines. The committee is very pleased to announce that Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell will be our principal guest for a lunch-time seminar to discuss FERC policies and decisions, recent and potential, that may affect distributed and renewable energy sources as they become further integrated into electricity markets. Commissioner Brownell will be joined for questions and discussion by a panel of experts on these issues and will respond to questions sent to the panel to the extent time allows.

Speaker:
Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell, Federal Regulatory Energy Commission
(live in DC)

Moderators:
Roger Feldman, Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP (live in DC)
Frederick Fucci, Partner, Thelen, Reid & Priest LLP (live in NYC and local NYC speaker)

Panel:
John W. Jimison, Executive director and general counsel, U.S. Combined Heat & Power Association / Small Generator Coalition (live in DC)

Randy Davis, Partner, Stuntz, Davis & Staffier, counsel to Edison Electric Institute (live in DC)
Grace Soderberg, Assistant General Counsel, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (live in DC)

Learn about:
· Effects of changes in the electricity sector’s regulatory landscape after EPAct
· Will electricity markets move toward greater reliance on competitive forces
· EPAct’s amendments to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
· Planning and permitting new electric transmission resources.
· FERC’s new responsibilities for assessing demand-response as an electric market resource.
FERC’s power to require comparable open access by non-regulated transmission utilities.

Supporting Partners:

When: Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Time:
12:00p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Eastern
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Central
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m. Mountain
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Pacific

Teleconference only:
12:15-1:45 p.m. Eastern
11:15 -12:45 p.m. Central
10:15 - 11:45 a.m. Mountain
9:15 -10:45 a.m. Pacific

Seminar locations

Albany, Atlanta, Austin, Boise, Boston, Cedar Rapids, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Jackson, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland OR, Portland ME, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Seattle, Washington D.C., at HOST FIRMS.

Registration

Fill in the information in the column to the right.
IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS When you have completed your registration, you will receive an immediate confirmation of your registration by email from donna@ceepinc.org. Payment is due with registration. If you do not receive such notification, you have not completed your registration properly. Please try again and if you continue to have problems please contact Deirdre at deirdre@ceepinc.org or (518) 432-6400 ext. 225.
Government and full-time Academic registrants for whom there is no charge must still complete the entire process: Create your account and complete the process; choose “Invoice Me” when asked (Invoice will be at “$0”); you will receive a confirmation.

Cost: $ 20.00 for all participants except for government employees, full time students and full time faculty for whom there will be no charge. If you are attending in person there will be no additional fee. If you are calling in for the conference call, you will be charged for your long distance charges by your carrier.

CLE Credits

Attendees at the Atlanta, Cedar Rapids, New York, Portland ME, Portland OR, and certain other host firm locations will be eligible for CLE credit from the host firms. Please check with your Host Firm for availability of CLE credits.

Program materials: http://www.abanet.org/environ/committees/renewableenergy/home.html

Questions about registration:
Contact Deirdre Murphy at deirdre@ceepinc.org or (518) 432-6400 ext. 225

Questions to the panelists: You may start sending in questions in advance to Jane Aguilard at jaguilard@mwe.com .
You may start sending in questions before the program. The earlier we get the questions the more likely we are to be able to respond.

SAVE THE DATES

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June 21, 2006 “Renewables Litigation: Past, Present and Future”

Other programs will follow

The teleconference/seminar series is being organized by Committee Vice- Chairs Edna Sussman, Esq. of the New York City law firm of Hoguet Newman & Regal LLP and Robert Faron, Esq. for the ABA Renewable Energy Resources Committee, chaired by Roger Feldman of Bingham McCutchen LLP. To offer suggestions for later programming or for more information about these programs: e-mail Edna Sussman at esussman@hnrlaw.com or Robert Faron at rsfaron@verizon.net .

With co-sponsors

ABA Sustainable Development, Ecosystems and Climate Change Committee
Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership Inc.
Energy and Environmental Committees of the NYC Bar Association Environment,
Energy and Natural Resources Section of the DC Bar Association
Environmental and Energy Study Institute
Clean Energy States Alliance
American Wind Energy Association
Solar Energy Industries Association
Combined Heat and Power Association
National Hydropower Association
National Hydrogen Association
National Association of Environmental Law Students
Pace Law School

CEEP appreciates our partners' important contribution to making these programs possible. We will be offering our registration roster to our partners. If you would not like your name and contact information shared with our partners, please let us know. Our partners have committed not to sell or distribute the roster to others.