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

BGM will host its Sixteenth Annual FERC Briefing on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC.  As usual, we are planning to cover the “hot topics” on FERC’s agenda.

We are pleased to announce that FERC Commissioner John R. Norris will be the luncheon keynote speaker.  John W. Jimison, Counsel to the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Thomas R. Sheets, FERC General Counsel, will keynote the morning session with a review of pending energy legislation and the General Counsel’s view of FERC priorities in coming months.

The program also will address current FERC policy initiatives including transmission cost allocation, the green agenda, NERC compliance and FERC enforcement.

Registration forms may be e-mailed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or mailed to Attn: Jennifer Clark, Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P., 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 900, Washington, DC 20006.

Please click here to access the 16th Annual FERC Briefing conference brochure.