New Opportunities in Retail Electricity & Natural Gas Markets -- A Restructuring Today webinar

ROCKVILLE, Md. - June 18, 2013 - PRLog -- Several states are looking into liberalizing their retail power markets to tap into cheaper wholesale power prices.

The District of Columbia recently instituted a purchase of receivables program and is looking at other potential changes to its retail markets as well.

The Pennsylvania PUC issued an order laying out legislative changes it would like to see to make its retail market even more successful.

The Ohio PUC is moving all of its utilities away from traditional regulation into the market in the next few years and it has opened a docket looking into rule changes on the retail side to enhance competition.

Market backers are also pushing competition in other states including Michigan where shopping is currently capped, and in states that have not seriously looked at the issue since the California Energy Crisis.

Where are the biggest opportunities for growth in retail markets? What is going to be the end result of all the changes in various states? Can this growth be sustained if natural gas prices go back up?

Find out answers to these questions and more from Restructuring Today's 90-minute webinar that will help utilities plan future growth strategies and get them up to speed on the latest regulatory changes.

Distinguished speakers

Betty Ann Kane is the chairwoman of the Public Service Commission (PSC) of the District of Columbia. She is an experienced public official combining over 30 years of service to the District of Columbia government in elected and appointed positions with extensive private sector experience in regulatory, administrative and public policy matters. Kane served as a trustee and executive director of the District of Columbia Retirement Board before joining the PSC. She served two terms as an at-large member of the DC Board of Education and was elected to three terms as an at-large member of the City Council. She is a past president of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners (MACRUC) and currently serves as chairman of the telecommunications committee of MACRUC. She is a member of the telecommunications committee of NARUC and was appointed by the FCC to the Joint Conference on Advanced Telecommunication Service. Kane also was appointed to the Virtual Working Group on Education, Training & Best Practices for the International Confederation of Energy Regulators. She is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont and also holds a master's degree in English from Yale University, and completed specialized academic study in Telecommunications Regulations at the Annenberg School and Investing and Finance at the Wharton School.

Craig Goodman is president and CEO of the National Energy Marketers Association (NEM). He has expertise in law, economics, taxation and public policy and has served three US presidents and assisted multiple US and foreign nation states to maximize social wealth with competitively neutral, market-based solutions to anti-competitive conduct, market power abuse and energy market dysfunctions. Goodman's experience includes fossil, non-fossil (nuclear, renewables) and electrical energy markets as well as related advanced global technology markets. Goodman has been a leader in the energy industry through five industry deregulations starting with oil and refined products in the late 1970s, the natural gas markets in the 1980s and is currently attempting to bring true price and technology competition to the smallest energy consumers. Goodman has published widely and has appeared as an expert on energy, technology and tax policy issues in broadcast, radio and print media. He is admitted to the bars of the states of Texas and Florida, as well as Washington, DC and the US Supreme Court. Goodman received his bachelor's degree in Economics with honors from the University of Maryland and a juris doctorate degree with a concentration in international corporate law and economics from the University Of Miami School Of Law.

Nat Treadway is a Distributed Energy Financial Group (DEFG) co-founder and has served as a managing partner since 2003. He has thirty years of experience in the energy industry and a long-term interest in energy efficiency and the environment. His expertise includes electric utility regulation, energy efficiency and demand response programs, innovation in competitive retail energy services and market structures that affect retail energy providers and consumer choice. He is the author of the Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS), a scorecard on electricity restructuring in North America. In 2009, he provided a book chapter on distributed generation, describing the role of cogeneration in opening both wholesale and retail electric markets in Texas. Treadway previously served as a senior policy advisor to regulatory commissioners and testified as an expert witness on behalf of the public interest at the Public Utility Commission of Texas. He testified on the economics of utility capacity resource expansion, demand side management (energy efficiency and demand response), distributed generation and pricing. In the lead-up to Texas restructuring, he was significantly involved with important features of the market structure, particularly regarding the separation of electric distribution utility functions from competitive energy services and the use of Deliberative Polls® to assess Texans' preferences for energy efficiency and renewable energy. Treadway has a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and a master's degree in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University.

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