Presentations on Developments in the Electric Industry

Transmission Cost Allocation: Why Is This So Hard? (May 2010), by David Goroff

What Can FERC Do to Promote a Green Agenda? (May 2010), by James McGrew

Implementing FERC's eTariff (May 2010), by Nicole Allen

Deployment of Renewable Resources (March 2009), by David Goroff

An Update on the Reliability of Contracts in the Electric Industry (March 2009), by James McGrew

How NOT to do a Transmission Rate Case: Lessons from the Trenches (March 2009), by Thomas Blackburn

Generator Interconnection Queues: Ending the Endless Line (March 2009), by Peter Matt

The Department of Energy: Exercising the Full Faith and Credit of the United States (March 2009), by Giuseppe Fina

Incentives: Encouraging Transmission Investment in Today’s Economy (March 2009), by Linda Kizuka

Evolution of Markets and the Open Access Transmission Tariff (August 2008), by Thomas Blackburn

Order No. 890: Planning in the Order 888 Aftermath (March 2008), by Carmen Gentile

Carbon Reduction: FERC is Engaged and Committed (March 2008), by David Goroff

Order No. 890-A: Preventing Undue Discrimination and Preference in Transmission Service (March 2008), by Peter Matt

What Are FERC's New Requirements Governing Market-Based Rate Authorizations? (March 2008), by Giuseppe Fina

Transmission Service: FERC Issues Trickle Down to Rate Managers (November 2007), by Thomas Blackburn

Evolution of Markets and the Open Access Transmission Tariff (July 2007), by Thomas Blackburn

FERC’s Transmission Tariff Reform Initiative (March 2007), by Thomas Blackburn

If Not RTOs and ISOs, What Else? (March 2007), by Thomas Blackburn

New Development in Transmission Pricing–Implications for Public Power (October 2006), by Thomas Blackburn

Independent Transmission Service Contractor: An Alternative to ISOs and RTOs (June 2006), by Thomas Blackburn

Turf Wars: Emerging Issues in the Regulation of Electric Utilities (June 2006), by Thomas Blackburn

FERC-State Relations: Truce, Armistice or Victory? (June 2006), by Thomas Blackburn

Reading the Tea Leaves: What Transmission Reforms Will FERC Adopt? (March 2006), by Thomas Blackburn

Electric Markets: Corporate and Market Structure Issues (March 2006), by Carmen Gentile

Transmission Incentives: Light at the End of the Tunnel (March 2006), by David Goroff

"Extreme Makeover," FERC Edition: The New Focus of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (December 2005), by Thomas Blackburn

FERC Lite Legislation: The Future of "Low Calorie" FERC Regulation (November 2005), by Thomas Blackburn

The fall of PUHCA and the Rise of FERC: Transfer of Authority Over Mergers and Inter-Affiliate Transactions (September 2005), by Carmen Gentile

Transmission Incentives: Believe It!! . . . Or Not?? (September 2005), by David Goroff

Transmission Operation Improvements under the Energy Policy Act of 2005: Phase III of Open Access Transmission (September 2005), by Thomas Blackburn

Transmission Planning and Resource Adequacy: What Role Should the Regulatory Commissions Play? (May 2005), by Thomas Blackburn

Utility/Affiliate Power Sales: Has the Death Knell Sounded? (April 2005), by Thomas Blackburn

Affiliate Transaction and Marked-Based Rate Policies – Critical Components of the New Market Design (March 2005), by Carmen Gentile

Transmission Infrastructure: Show Me the Money or Déjà Vu All Over Again (March 2005), by David Goroff

Hot Topics at FERC (March 2005), by Thomas Blackburn and Peter Matt

The Mobile-Sierra Doctrine in MISO: Still Alive and Kicking (for Now) (November 2004), by Thomas Blackburn

Turf Wars: The FERC's Jurisdictional Battles (May 2004), by Thomas Blackburn

Turf Wars: The FERC's Jurisdictional Battles (March 2004), by Thomas Blackburn

The Coming Transmission Credit Crisis (July 2003), by Michel Marcoux

Hot Topics – Transmission and Generation Issues in the Carolinas (May 2003), by Thomas Blackburn

FERC Believes in Markets but It Doesn't Trust Them Yet (March 2003), by James McGrew

Infrastructure Enhancement and the Competitive Marketplace: A Curmudgeonly View (March 2003), by Thomas Blackburn

Unregulated Utility Affiliates: It's NOT Time for a Change (January 2003), by Thomas Blackburn

Standard Market Design – Key Issues Facing Investor-Owned Utilities (October 2002), by Thomas Blackburn

What's in FERC Standard Market Design NOPR? (September 2002), by Thomas Blackburn

Implications of the Standard Market Design NOPR – The Network Access Service ("NAS") Tariff (September 2002), by Thomas Blackburn

Implications of the Standard Market Design NOPR – Planning and Transmission Expansion (September 2002), by Peter Matt

Standard Market Design and Competitive Markets: What is FERC Doing Now (August 2002), by Thomas Blackburn

FERC's New Transmission Tariff: How Will It Work? (August 2002), by Thomas Blackburn

Competition at the Crossroads (February 2002), by Carmen Gentile

RTO – Watch the Moving Target (February 2002), by David Goroff

Standard Market Design: Creation of a Standard Organization (February 2002), by Thomas Blackburn

Generator Interconnections Policy – Standardize or Else (February 2002), by Peter Matt

What's Wrong with Open Access Transmission Tariffs? (November 2001), by Thomas Blackburn

Generator Interconnections: The New Open Access Battleground (September 2001), by Thomas Blackburn

Generator Interconnection Policy: What's Hot and What's Not (June 2001), by Thomas Blackburn

Restructuring and Ratepayer Protection (March 2001), by Carmen Gentile

Industry Directions – Competition (March 2001), by Carmen Gentile

Innovative Rate Treatment for Regional Transmission Organizations (March 2001), by David Goroff

Happiness Is Hard to Find in California's Electricity Markets (March 2001), by James McGrew

Regional Transmission Organizations: FERC Illuminates the Future (March 2001), by Thomas Blackburn

Generator Interconnections: The Feud (March 2001), by Peter Matt

Transmission Owning Utilities in an ISO/RTO: Orphans in the Wake of Order 2000 (February 2000), by Carmen Gentile

How Does Order 2000 Affect Utility Restructuring? (February 2000), by Carmen Gentile

Combination Mergers and Code of Conduct Issues (February 2000), by Carmen Gentile

How Does Order 2000 Affect Utility Restructuring? (February 2000), by David Goroff

Wholesale Standardized master Power Contract: An Electric Standardized Contract for Sales of Capacity and Energy at Market-Based Rates (2000), by Antonia Frost

Generator Interconnections: Getting "IT" Together (2000), by Peter Matt

FERC's Developing Merger Policy (March 1999), by Carmen Gentile

FERC - Active Participant or Passive Observer? (March 1999), by Carmen Gentile

Power Exchange Development (March 1999), by David Goroff

FERC First! (March 1999), by James McGrew

Update on Federal and State Legislative and Regulatory Initiatives (February 1998), by Carmen Gentile

The ISO – A Surrogate Regulatory Body? (February 1998), by David Goroff

Capacity Benefit Margin (February 1998), by James McGrew

Moderator, Panel on Standard Costs, American Bar Association Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, Denver, Colorado (February 1998), by James McGrew

Electric Utility Regulation in the United States: History and Procedure, American Forest & Paper Association, Washington, D.C. (1998), by Peter Matt

FERC Merger Policy, Pasha Publications, Arlington, Virginia (Fall 1997), by Carmen Gentile

Electric Utility Marriages Romance's Rocky Road (January 1997), by Carmen Gentile

Forming a Decommissioning Doctrine for a Restructured Electric Utility Market – Safeguarding the Future Without Undoing the Past (January 1997), by Carmen Gentile

The Problem with Long-Term, Fixed-Price Contracts (January 1997) by David Goroff

Convergence of Electric and Gas Industry, Southern Gas Association, Dallas, Texas (Summer 1996), by Carmen Gentile

Comments on Electric Utility Issues, Oral Presentation (Summer 1991), by Carmen Gentile

Regulations Governing Independent Power Producers (Panel Discussion), Federal Energy Bar Association Meeting (January 1985), by Carmen Gentile

Electric Utility Wheeling for Cogenerators, Small Power Producers and Ultimate Consumers, Federal Energy Bar Association Meeting (January 1985), by Carmen Gentile

The AT&T Settlement (Implications for the Electric Utility Industry), Edison Electric Institute, Legal Committee Meeting (Spring 1982), by Carmen Gentile

The Structure of the Electric Utility Industry, Federal Energy Bar Association, Spring Annual Meeting (1981), by Carmen Gentile

The Price Squeeze Policy of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Edison electric Institute, Legal Committee Meeting (November 1979) (written version submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission February 15, 1980), by Carmen Gentile