Nuts and Bolts of Complying with FERC's New Open Access Rule - Order 890
Washington, DC, May 03, 2007 --(PR.com)-- FERC's Order 890 is designed to ensure transparency and create a more level playing field in transmission markets, but will it improve the marketplace?
Is requiring line owners to be more open about their product a good step?
Will knowing more about the available transfer capability (ATC) foster competition?
Are compliance rules in line with RTO/ISO practices now?
Join Restructuring Today and four lawyers from Morgan Lewis energy practice group on June 1 at noon for a live audio event focused on the fundamentals of FERC’s Order 890, the nuts and bolts of complying with it over the next few months and longer-term issues.
Visit www.restructuringtoday.com/conferences/order890.html or call 800-486-8201 (202-298-8201) to register your entire team for just $150/location.
In one hour you'll find out how these important changes will impact your firm:
* The new ATC
* Regional planning
* Planning redispatch
* Conditional firm service
* Changes in transmission service
* Pricing transmission legally
* Standardizing of rules, practices
* Order 890 enforcement
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Agenda:
* Basics of Order 890
* Top changes and how they'll impact you
* Compliance in the first six months
* Longer-term issues
* Live Q&A
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Meet the live audio conference panel:
Floyd Norton, IV, is a partner in the Energy Practice Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. His practice focuses on electric utility issues with an emphasis on utility responses to competition. He has broad and comprehensive experience in electric utility market power issues and investigations, utility mergers and acquisitions, the negotiation of power contracts and wholesale and transmission rates and services. Norton has represented a number of electric utility clients in the areas of market pricing, mergers and industry restructuring and investigations of electric trading and transmission access practices. He has advised utilities on their development of regional transmission organizations, FERC's Standard Market Design initiative and the acquisition of divested generation facilities.
Stephen Spina is a partner in the Energy Practice Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He represents electric utilities and other electric Industry participants before FERC on a variety of matters, including industry restructuring, market investigations and regulatory issues under the Federal Power Act, Public Utility Holding Company Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. He has advised utilities on issues related to the development of RTOs and has been involved in efforts to form RTOs in the Southeast, Midwest and West. Spina has represented electric utilities in connection with audits by FERC's Office of Market Oversight and Investigations related to transmission market power and standards of conduct compliance. He has also assisted electric utilities in undertaking internal compliance assessments in an effort to gauge compliance with FERC rules and regulations.
Michael Griffen is a partner in the Energy Practice Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He represents electric utilities, generating companies, power marketers, investors and developers and other electric industry participants in regulatory, commercial and transactional matters. He has represented electric industry clients before FERC, other federal and state agencies and the federal courts with respect to matters under the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. Griffen has represented electric utilities in merger and restructuring proceedings, complaint and rate proceedings, rulemakings and a wide variety of other regulatory matters. He has also represented utilities and other electric power industry clients in negotiations for agreements for generator and transmission interconnections, power sales, energy swaps, derivatives and other commercial arrangements. He has conducted assessments and investigations of utility compliance with regulatory requirements.
Joseph Charles Hall is an associate in the Energy Practice Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. His practice includes the representationof electric utilities in various restructuring proceedings before FERC and various state courts. He has advised clients on issues relating to Order 888, 2000 and the full scope of FERC's jurisdictional authority pursuant to the Federal Power Act. Hall has advised clients through RTO stakeholder processes and has worked extensively on numerous projects concerning various types of alternative energy generation and generator interconnection issues.
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Restructuring Today's mission is to deliver exclusive news chronicling ongoing efforts to open competitive wholesale and retail energy markets with in-depth analysis on why some fail while others succeed.
GHI LLC
4418 MacArthur Blvd, NW, Suite 202
Washington, DC 20007
800-486-8201 (202-298-8201)
www.restructuringtoday.com/conferences/order890.html
Is requiring line owners to be more open about their product a good step?
Will knowing more about the available transfer capability (ATC) foster competition?
Are compliance rules in line with RTO/ISO practices now?
Join Restructuring Today and four lawyers from Morgan Lewis energy practice group on June 1 at noon for a live audio event focused on the fundamentals of FERC’s Order 890, the nuts and bolts of complying with it over the next few months and longer-term issues.
Visit www.restructuringtoday.com/conferences/order890.html or call 800-486-8201 (202-298-8201) to register your entire team for just $150/location.
In one hour you'll find out how these important changes will impact your firm:
* The new ATC
* Regional planning
* Planning redispatch
* Conditional firm service
* Changes in transmission service
* Pricing transmission legally
* Standardizing of rules, practices
* Order 890 enforcement
----------------
Agenda:
* Basics of Order 890
* Top changes and how they'll impact you
* Compliance in the first six months
* Longer-term issues
* Live Q&A
----------------
Meet the live audio conference panel:
Floyd Norton, IV, is a partner in the Energy Practice Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. His practice focuses on electric utility issues with an emphasis on utility responses to competition. He has broad and comprehensive experience in electric utility market power issues and investigations, utility mergers and acquisitions, the negotiation of power contracts and wholesale and transmission rates and services. Norton has represented a number of electric utility clients in the areas of market pricing, mergers and industry restructuring and investigations of electric trading and transmission access practices. He has advised utilities on their development of regional transmission organizations, FERC's Standard Market Design initiative and the acquisition of divested generation facilities.
Stephen Spina is a partner in the Energy Practice Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He represents electric utilities and other electric Industry participants before FERC on a variety of matters, including industry restructuring, market investigations and regulatory issues under the Federal Power Act, Public Utility Holding Company Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. He has advised utilities on issues related to the development of RTOs and has been involved in efforts to form RTOs in the Southeast, Midwest and West. Spina has represented electric utilities in connection with audits by FERC's Office of Market Oversight and Investigations related to transmission market power and standards of conduct compliance. He has also assisted electric utilities in undertaking internal compliance assessments in an effort to gauge compliance with FERC rules and regulations.
Michael Griffen is a partner in the Energy Practice Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He represents electric utilities, generating companies, power marketers, investors and developers and other electric industry participants in regulatory, commercial and transactional matters. He has represented electric industry clients before FERC, other federal and state agencies and the federal courts with respect to matters under the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. Griffen has represented electric utilities in merger and restructuring proceedings, complaint and rate proceedings, rulemakings and a wide variety of other regulatory matters. He has also represented utilities and other electric power industry clients in negotiations for agreements for generator and transmission interconnections, power sales, energy swaps, derivatives and other commercial arrangements. He has conducted assessments and investigations of utility compliance with regulatory requirements.
Joseph Charles Hall is an associate in the Energy Practice Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. His practice includes the representationof electric utilities in various restructuring proceedings before FERC and various state courts. He has advised clients on issues relating to Order 888, 2000 and the full scope of FERC's jurisdictional authority pursuant to the Federal Power Act. Hall has advised clients through RTO stakeholder processes and has worked extensively on numerous projects concerning various types of alternative energy generation and generator interconnection issues.
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Restructuring Today's mission is to deliver exclusive news chronicling ongoing efforts to open competitive wholesale and retail energy markets with in-depth analysis on why some fail while others succeed.
GHI LLC
4418 MacArthur Blvd, NW, Suite 202
Washington, DC 20007
800-486-8201 (202-298-8201)
www.restructuringtoday.com/conferences/order890.html
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Season Crawford
202-298-8201
http://www.restructuringtoday.com/conferences/order890.html
Season Crawford
202-298-8201
http://www.restructuringtoday.com/conferences/order890.html
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