WPUI and UW Energy Institute Present An Opportunity Knocks Seminar:
Obligation, Competition, Risk and Reliability from a Resource Planning Perspective—California and Wisconsin Perspectives
Harold Ray, Executive VP of Generation (retired), Southern California Edison
Robert Norcross, Administrator of the Gas and Electric Division, PSCW
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:00am - 12:30pm
Room 265, Materials Science and Engineering Building
1509 University Avenue, UW-Madison (map)
Background:
Harold Ray: Recently retired, Harold Ray is a recognized resource planning expert in California. He will offer an insider, now outsider, view on the following:
- The "obligation to serve" in a traditional, retail electricity market served by a franchised, vertically integrated utility under cost-of-service rate regulation.
- Wholesale markets, before and after "open access" restructuring: What is changed and what is the same?
- Competition in retail markets: What becomes of the "obligation to serve"?
- Resource planning and the "obligation to serve" under retail competition: Who pays for grid reliability, and how?
- Energy-only markets vs. separate energy and capacity markets: Who takes the market risk?
- Recognition of environmental impact costs in competitive commodity markets: California's statutory efforts
Robert Norcross: Robert Norcross is the administrator of the electric and gas divisions of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin. He will introduce Harold Ray and provide an overview of Wisconsin's electrical generation resource planning process.
Please forward to others in your company who may be interested in this program. For more information please contact:
Cara Lee (Sam) Mahany Braithwait
Phone: (608) 890-1815
Email: samb@engr.wisc.edu
Mail: Wisconsin Public Utility Institute
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
905 Engineering Research
Building
1500 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706 |
