Recent Conference Presentations

June 27, 2007:  Renewable Electricity Standards:  Efficiency or Rent-Seeking?   Rutgers University Advanced Workshop on Regulation and Competition, Monterey CA.

Mar. 27, 2007  Texas Electricity:  Forever in Transition.  Testimony Before the Texas State Assembly Committee on Regulated Industries, Austin.

Mar. 5, 2007:  Electricity Market Monitoring and the Economics of Regulation.  American Antitrust Institute Conference on Competitive Electricity, Arlington, VA.

Feb. 5, 2007:  Electricity:  What Texas Did Right, and What's Left to Do.  Texas Public Policy Foundation Policy Orientation for the Legislature, Austin.

Feb. 21, 2006:  Utilities and Disasters:  The Regulatory Compact Meets the Social Contract.  Conference on Rebuilding Utility Infrastructure, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

June 24, 2005:  Rethinking Vertical Integration in Electricity.  Rutgers University Advanced Workshop on Regulation and Competition, San Diego.

Oct. 27, 2004:  Energy in California:  New Crisis, or Business as Usual?   Marin County Council of Governments, Larkspur CA. 

Oct. 9, 2003:  Participant Funding:  Does Competitive Generation Require Competitive Transmission?  Center For Business Intelligence Conference on Transmission Expansion, Alexandria VA. 

June 28, 2003:  Electricity Market Monitoring:  What Can We Learn From the Economics of Regulation?  Rutgers University Advanced Workshop on Regulation and Competition, San Diego.

May 14, 2002:  Electricity:  What California Must Do and What FERC Will Allow, Power Agency of Northern California May Energy Conference, Pleasanton.

Mar. 12, 2002:  Enron:  What Matters and What Doesn't, Western Farm Credit Bank Annual Shareholders' Meeting, Dana Point.

Mar. 9, 2001:  Energy Crisis:  Version 3.0:  Same Solution, Same Mistake, Institute for Infrastructure Finance, 2001 Roundtable of the Americas, Coral Gables, Florida. 

Jan. 11, 2001:  Electricity in California:  How Did Things Go So Wrong? Orange County Business Council, Irvine.

Nov. 17, 2000:  Retail Electricity:  Has Deregulation Flopped? Energy Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Nov. 9, 2000:  Electricity Restructuring:  Will Texas be the Next California? International Association of Energy Economists, Houston.

Fall, 2000:  "California's Electrical Disaster and the Future of Competitive Power", public lecture presented at various forums.  In 5 large PowerPoint files.  [1]   [2]  [3]  [4]  [5]

Mar. 15, 2000:  Rethinking Electric/Gas Convergence:  the Future Belongs to the Focused, Energy Expo 2000, Houston.

Nov. 8, 1999:   Nodes to You:  Transmission Pricing in the Penn-Jersey-Maryland Interconnection, Risk Publications Conference on Optimal Transmission Pricing, Houston.