Since 1994, Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P. has sponsored an annual conference to keep clients and other attendees up-to-date on the pressing FERC-related issues facing the electric and gas industries. We have been fortunate to have FERC commissioners, FERC personnel and key industry experts join our attorneys each year as we explore the nuances and anticipated directions of national energy policy as they impact the various FERC constituencies.

Our briefing typically centers around a set of emerging energy industry themes. The initial conference in 1994 focused on FERC’s then-groundbreaking open access electric transmission policies. We have since covered a variety of topics, including FERC’s incentive transmission rate policies, developments in NERC reliability standards and enforcement, compliance with FERC standards of conduct and code of conduct, and energy-related legislation.

Some of our previous themes included:

• Turbulent Times: Utility Operations in a Partially Deregulated Environment

• A Decade of Restructuring: Where Do We Stand?

• The Next Generation of Issues for Utility Management

• A New Era of Energy Regulation

• Infrastructure Development for the Next Generation

• Utility Infrastructure and Regulation: Current Trends - Future Mandates

• Conducting Public Utility Business in Uncertain Times

• Regulatory Policy Drivers and the Keys to Compliance