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Sunday, June 22 2008 Pre-Conference Seminars 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. Strategic Planning Overview for Utility Policy Officials Recommended CEUs .7/PDHs 6.5 The business environment in which electric utilities operate is continuously changing and poses risks to utilities and their customers. Discover how to address these changes and minimize their risks through strategic planning. Strategic planning enables managers and policymakers to focus the organization’s resources and ensure that they are working toward the organization’s goals. Attendees will learn the importance of strategic planning, the steps in the strategic planning process, and the roles of the board and CEO. Tim Gelvin, Managing Director, Gelvin & Associates, Inc., Leawood, Kan. 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. The Opportunities, Challenges, and Issues With Renewables Recommended CEUs .7/PDHs 6.5 The renewable energy sector of the electric energy business is facing significant opportunities and challenges. In the next four years, the United States will need approximately 70,000 MW of new generation to meet growing demand. A growing portion of that supply will come from renewables and energy efficiency programs, rather than traditional power plants. Hear a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of renewables and their impact on the public power sector’s wholesale and retail cost. Wallace Barron, President, Barron & Associates, Alpharetta, Ga. 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. Building and Balancing Your Leadership Strengths Recommended CEUs .7/PDHs 6.5 Each of us has a core set of beliefs or values that drive our actions, and ultimately shape how we interact with others in our lives. Employed appropriately, these core values provide us the opportunity for managerial effectiveness; however, each also has the potential to make us less effective than we should be. Attendees will learn to view each core value as part of an interdependent pair; that is, two values which appear to be polar opposites that need each other over time. Through learning to identify and tap the strengths of core values, attendees will create greater leadership effectiveness and minimize the risks of lower performance. Margaret Seidler, President, Seidler & Associates, Charleston, S.C.
8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. Energy Efficiency Strategies for Public Power Recommended CEUs .7/PDHs 6.5 Whether your utility is seeking to start a new energy efficiency program or reinvigorate an existing one, this session will provide ideas and methods for implementation and improvement. Participants will examine ways to publicize new energy efficiency programs and promote these concepts in your community. Discover the needs of residential, commercial and industrial customers served by your utility, and the unique opportunities for energy efficiency each affords. J.P. Blackford, Environmental Services Engineer, American Public Power Association, Washington, D.C. 8:30 a.m.–Noon Rates Part 1: Understanding Cost-of-Service-Based Rates Recommended CEUs .3 /PDHs 3 One of the most sensitive issues that a board faces is the rate the utility charges for electricity. Utility ratemaking is complex, and for the layperson who needs to understand its different components and is often called upon to discuss it with utility customers, it can be an intimidating issue. This session will provide an overview of the key factors that are incorporated into cost-ofservice rate design that is used by many utilities in setting their rates. Mark Beauchamp, President, Utility Financial Solutions, Holland, Mich. 8:30 a.m.–Noon Improving Controls to Protect Your Utility’s Assets Recommended CEUs .3 /PDHs 3 Recent news stories have mentioned a lack of internal controls as a contributing factor to many business scandals. For publicly owned utilities, it is important to instill internal controls that will either prevent or identify fraud. Hear examples of actual fraud and embezzlement scandals that provide better clarity into the historical weaknesses in control structures at utilities, and discover strategies and options being used to increase controls over utilities’ assets. Thomas Unke, Partner, Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP, Madison, Wis. 1–4:30 p.m. Rates Part 2: Understanding Marginal Cost-Based Rates Recommended CEUs .3 /PDHs 3 Marginal cost-based rates reflect the economic definition of relevant costs that should be used in designing electricity utility rates. This approach is in sharp contrast to traditional accounting, or average cost, approaches to designing rates. Discover how economic costs differ from traditional accounting definitions and applications of cost that are used to price electricity, and find out what “real cost” really means, along with practical ways to quantify and apply economic costs to ratemaking. John Kelly, Director, Economics & Research, American Public Power Association, Washington, D.C. 1–4:30 p.m. An Introduction to ISOs, RTOs, and Public Power Recommended CEUs .3 /PDHs 3 In an effort to foster more competitive wholesale electric markets, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is empowered to order owners of transmission lines to provide access to their lines by other wholesale users. FERC has subsequently encouraged the creation of Independent System Operators to ensure nondiscriminatory access to transmission and the formation of Regional Transmission Organizations to administer the transmission grid on a regional basis throughout North America. Learn about the roles of the ISOs and RTOs, and their effect on publicly owned electric utilities. Mike Stuart, Senior Vice President–Policy, Wisconsin Public Power Inc., Sun Prairie, Wis.
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