Agenda

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Power Day: Thursday, March 11, 2010
7:30 - 8:45 AM

Leadership Circle Breakfast: Scenarios - Planning Amidst Uncertainty

Sponsored by Alstom

  • Roger Goodman, Senior Consultant, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • Philippe Joubert, Executive Vice President, Alstom; President, Alstom Power,

Biomass: The "Hot" New Renewable?

  • Meg McIntosh, Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • Richard Hamilton, Chief Executive Officer, Ceres, Inc.
  • Stephen J. Schaefer, Managing Director, Riverstone Holdings, LLC
  • Robert Giglio, Vice President of Strategic Planning, Foster Wheeler Global Power Group

Emerging Power Systems in Asia and the Middle East: Keeping up with Demand Growth and Environmental Constraints

  • Mark Hutchinson, Senior Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • Xizhou Zhou, Associate Director, IHS CERA
  • Leila Benali, Director, IHS CERA
  • Loic Douillet, Vice President Market Intelligence, Alstom Power

The Future of Geothermal Power: What Role and What Scale?

  • Roger Kranenburg, Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • Yehudit Bronicki, Director, Chief Executive Officer, ORMAT Technologies Inc.
  • Jim Slutz, President, Managing Director, Global Energy Strategies LLC
  • Alex Klein, Research Director, IHS Emerging Energy Research

Renewable Energy: IHS CERA's New Approach to Competitive Cost Assessment and Positioning

  • Sean Biggs, Director, IHS CERA
  • Keith Hays, Senior Director, IHS Emerging Energy Research
  • Reese Tisdale, Research Director, IHS Emerging Energy Research

The Shale Gale and the Electric Power Industry: What Has Really Changed?

  • David Hobbs, Chief Energy Strategist, IHS CERA (Chair)
9:00 - 9:30 AM

Opening Keynote: Is there a New Energy Outlook? A Discussion with Nobuo Tanaka

  • Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)
9:30 - 11:00 AM

North American Power CEO Plenary

  • Lawrence Makovich, Vice President & Senior Advisor, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • David Ratcliffe, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Southern Company
  • Theodore Craver Jr., Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Edison International
  • Peter Darbee, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, PG&E Corporation
  • Michael Morris, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, American Electric Power Company, Inc.
11:20 AM - 12:45 PM

Is Carbon Capture and Storage Moving Past the Drawing Board?

  • Ayaka Jones, Associate Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • Howard Herzog, Head, Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program, MIT
  • David Eyton, Group Head of Research & Technology, BP
  • Philippe Paelinck, Director, CO2 Business Development, Alstom
  • Dan Duellman, Director, New Generation & CCS Engineering, American Electric Power Company, Inc.
  • Jon Long, Vice President of Asset Development, Entergy Corporation

Charging up: Adapting the Grid for Electric Cars

  • Patricia DiOrio, Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • John Viera, Director, Sustainability & Environmental Policy, Ford Motor Company
  • Glen Stancil, Vice President, EV Services, Reliant Energy
  • Doug Kim, PEV Readiness, Advanced Technology, Southern California Edison
  • Peter L. Corsell, Chief Executive Officer, GridPoint

Prospects for Solar at Utility Scale

  • Kristian Bodek, Associate Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • Charles Gay, President, Applied Solar, Applied Materials
  • Steve Malnight, Vice President, Renewable Energy, PG&E Company
  • Reese Tisdale, Research Director, IHS Emerging Energy Research
  • Howard Taylor, Vice President of Development, Tessera Solar North America

Managing the Power Plant Construction Supply Chain Post-Recession: Manufacturing and Engineering Challenges

  • Candida Scott, Senior Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • Robert Giglio, Vice President of Strategic Planning, Foster Wheeler Global Power Group
  • Arthur Lembo, Senior Vice President, URS Power Group
  • Andreas Lusch, Vice President, Thermal Systems, Alstom
  • Martha Wyrsch, President for Vestas Americas, Vestas Wind Systems A/S

European Power: Reconciling Environmental Objectives with Security of Supply and Competitiveness

  • Fabien Roques, Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • Philippe Huet, Senior Executive Vice-President, Électricité de France
  • Gunnar Lundberg, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Vattenfall AB
  • José Luis del Valle, Chief Strategy Officer, IBERDROLA, S.A.
  • Joan MacNaughton, Senior Vice President, Power & Environmental Policies, Alstom Power Systems

US Electric Power Transmission: The Battle of the Jurisdictions

  • Marie Fagan, Senior Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • John Bear, President and Chief Executive Officer, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO)
  • Terry Boston, President and Chief Executive Officer, PJM Interconnection
  • Paul Hibbard, Chairman, Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Department of Public Utilities
  • Terry Harvill, Vice President, Energy Policy, ITC Holdings Corporation
1:00 - 2:00 PM

Luncheon and Keynote

  • Andrew Liveris, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Dow Chemical Company
2:15 - 3:00 PM

Special Address: What Kind of Economic Recovery - and Where?

  • Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
  • Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist, IHS (Chair)
  • Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
  • Daniel Yergin, Chairman, IHS CERA (Chair)
3:00 - 4:20 PM

Climate Change, the Environment, and Technology: Building a New Future

  • Steve Bolze, President and CEO of Power and Water, General Electric Company
  • Moray Dewhurst, Vice-Chairman and Chief of Staff, FPL Group, Inc.
  • Robert LaCount, Senior Director, IHS CERA
  • Minoru Shinohara, Senior Vice President, Technology Development Division, Nissan
  • Daniel Yergin, Chairman, IHS CERA (Chair)
4:45 - 6:15 PM

Efficiency, Demand Response, and the Outlook for Power: Global Perspectives

  • Jone-Lin Wang, Managing Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • Tan Rongyao, Chief Administrative Officer, State Electricity Regulatory Commission of China (SERC)
  • David Brewster, President and Co-Founder, EnerNOC
  • Gene Rodrigues, Director of Energy Efficiency, Southern California Edison Company
  • Lawrence Makovich, Vice President & Senior Advisor, IHS CERA
  • Lawrence Wong, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Market Authority
  • Roberto Bocca, Senior Director, Head of Energy Industries, World Economic Forum

Renewables: Scaling Up and Integrating

  • Robert LaCount, Senior Director, IHS CERA (Chair)
  • Anthony Orlando, President and Chief Executive Officer, Covanta Energy
  • Mason Willrich, Chairman of the Board, California ISO Corporation
  • John Woolard, President & CEO, BrightSource
  • Colin Andersen, CEO, Ontario Power Authority

The Future of Coal: Rising to the Challenge

  • Gerard McCloskey, Chairman, The McCloskey Group (Chair)
  • David Price, Director, IHS CERA
  • Michael Quillen, Chairman of the Board, Alpha Natural Resources
  • Peter Socha, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, James River Coal
  • Don Blankenship, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Massey Energy
  • Fred Murrell, President, C166 Development Company
6:15 - 7:00 PM

General Reception

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Dinner and Keynote: The Future of the US Economy

  • Lawrence Summers, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council