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Law Forums Events 11-4-2011 Matthew Ryan Law & Public Policy Forum: 2011 (November) Robert Powelson Suedeen Kelly Tyson Slocum Joseph Bowring Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/forums Recommended Citation Powelson, Robert; Kelly, Suedeen; Slocum, Tyson; and Bowring, Joseph, "Matthew Ryan Law & Public Policy Forum: 2011 (November)" (2011). Law Forums. 13. https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/forums/13 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Events at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Law Forums by an authorized administrator of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository. THE FUTURE OF PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRICITY MARKETS • t^ a; y 1 Matthew J. Ryan Law and Public Policy Forum November 4, 2011 I he Miili/h'u Ryan I.aw and I'lihlic J'olicy l onini honors the memory of The Honorable Matthew ./. Ryan, the former Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and one ofl'iUanova Law School's most distinguished graduates, /he Ryan l onim was made possible by the generosity o f his many friends and the leadership of Arthur J. Kania '56. Albert A. Lindner '6H, .lames L.. McLrlane '67, and Richard {}. Phillips '66. VILLANOVA UNIVERSITV SCHOOL OF LAW S C H E D U L E  9:00 Welcome 9:10 The Big Picture Hon. Robert Powelson, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Hon. Suedeen Kelly, Patton Boggs, former FERC Commissioner Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen 10:30 Break 10:40 Wholesale Markets Joseph Bowring, Monitoring Analytics Amy Hamilton, Exelon Generation Andrew Kleit, Penn State University Paul Sotkiewicz, PJM Interconnection 11-40 Lunch 12:30 Retail Markets David Fein, Constellation Energy, Retail Energy Supply Association Stephen Fernands, Customized Energy Solutions Courtney Lane, Penn Future Sonny Popowsky, Pennsylvania Consumer Advocate 1 ;30 Break 1:40 Innovations Brent Alderfer, Community Energy Allen Freifeld, Viridity Energy Paul Hallacher, Penn State, Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster Charles Silio, Element Partners 2:40 Wrap—Up 3:00 Reception SPEAKERS BRENT ALDERFER Brent Alderer, an electrical engineer and a lawyer, is CEO and co-founder of Community Energy Inc., which develops solar and wind energy projects. Prior to co-founding Community Energy, Alderfer was a Colorado Public Utility Commissioner, Chair of the Energy Resources Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Util­ity Commissioners, and a principal in the consulting firm of Competi­tive Utility Strategies, advising on renewable and distributed renew­able generation projects in both regulated and competitive markets. JOSEPH BOWRING Joseph Bowring is an economist and the President of Monitoring Analytics. Since 1999, Bowring has been the Independent Market Monitor for PJM, responsible for all market monitoring activities of PJM Interconnection. He has taught economics as a member of the faculty at Bucknell University and Villanova University, has served as senior staff economist for the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and as Chief Economist for the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate's Division of Rate Counsel, and has also worked as an independent consulting economist. DAVID FEIN David Fein is President of the Retail Energy Supply Association and Vice President of Energy Policy for the Midwest and Pennsylvania at Constellation Energy. The Retail Energy Supply Association is a group of retail energy suppliers that advocates for competitive retail energy markets. In his role as Vice President of Energy Policy at Constellation, Fein is responsible for directing Constellation's state-level regulatory and legislative activities for its retail, wholesale, power generation and development, and global commodities busi­nesses in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. STEPHEN FERNANDS Stephen Fernands is founder and President of Customized Energy Solutions, which assists clients in managing changes in the whole­sale and retail electricity markets. As President, Fernands has been involved in consulting projects including market design evaluation, demand response program development, supply procurement, load profiling, generation development, and transmission congestion analysis. ALLEN FREIFELD Allen Freifeld is Senior Vice President of External Affairs at Viridity Energy, which provides large energy consumers with tools to in­crease energy efficiency and create energy revenues. Prior to join­ing Viridity, Freifeld was a member of the Maryland Public Service Commission, a Hearing Examiner and Chief Staff Counsel of the Commission, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Mid Atlan­tic Distributed Resources Initiative, and a founder of the Organiza­tion of PJM States, Inc. PAUL HALLACHER Paul Hallacher is Director of Research Program Management and Lecturer in Political Science at Penn State. He is responsible for assisting faculty members across the University develop large-scale, multidisciplinary research and technology transfer initiatives. He serves as Director of the Penn State Engineering Innovation Pro­gram, Managing Director of the NSF Center for Nanotechnology Education, and Director for Management and Administration of the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster for Energy Efficient Build­ings, a DOE Energy Innovation HUB. Before joining Penn State, Hallacher served in several policy development and program man­agement positions in Pennsylvania state government. Speakers Continued AMY HAMILTON Amy Hamilton is Director, Public Policy at Exelon Generation, where she assists with the development and implementation of strategic policies to enhance and promote wholesale and retail competitive markets. Hamilton previously served as the Manager for Gas Sup­ply & Transportation at PECO Energy, and before that was an Assis­tant General Counsel in Exelon's Business Services Company. SUEDEEN KELLY Suedeen Kelly is a partner at Patton Boggs LLP and a former three-term Commissioner with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). At Patton Boggs, Kelly serves as Co-Chair of the firm's Public Policy and Regulatory Department and represents a variety of clients in the electric and natural gas industries on business, regula­tory, litigation and policy matters. In addition to her time at FERC, Kelly has served as regulatory counsel for the California Independ­ent System Operator, law professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law, legislative aide to Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Chairwoman and Commissioner for the New Mexico Public Service Commission, and lawyer in private and non-profit practice. ANDREW KLEIT Andrew Kleit is Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and Program Officer for the undergraduate degree in Energy Busi­ness and Finance at Penn State University. He is also the executive director of the Penn State Electricity Markets Initiative. He was pre­viously Associate Professor of Economics at Louisiana State Univer­sity, Senior Economic Adviser to the Director for Investigation and Research at the Canadian Bureau of Competition Policy, and Eco­nomic Advisor to the Director of the Bureau of Competition at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. COURTNEY LANE Courtney Lane is a Senior Energy Policy Analyst at Penn Future's Center for Energy, Enterprise and the Environment, where her work focuses on promoting clean energy markets and policy throughout Pennsylvania. She previously has worked as a research and policy analyst for Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership Inc. SONNY POPOWSKY Sonny Popowsky has served as the Consumer Advocate of Pennsyl­vania since 1990 and has worked at the Office of Consumer Advo­cate since 1979. He has been a President of the National Associa­tion of State Utility Consumer Advocates, member of the Board of Trustees of the North American Electric Reliability Council, and member of the Board of Directors of the North American Energy Standards Board. He is currently a member of the Keystone Energy Board, the Department of Energy's Electricity Advisory Committee, and the Stakeholder Steering Committee of the Eastern Interconnec­tion Planning Collaborative. ROBERT POWELSON Robert Powelson serves as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC). He has been a member of the PUC since 2008, and Chairman since 2011. Chairman Powelson is also a member of Governor Corbett's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commis­sion and of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Prior to joining the PUC, Chair­man Powelson served as the President of the Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry, the Director of Government Rela­tions for the Delaware County Chamber, and Staff Assistant to Con­gressman Curt Weldon. Speakers Continued CHARLES SILIO Charles Silio is a Senior Associate at Element Partners, a private equity firm that invests exclusively in established high growth com­panies in the energy and clean technology markets. He has experi­ence in private equity, distressed investing, and investment banking, with a focus on investing in technology, energy, and business ser­vices. Silio also has worked at D. E. Shaw & Co., at GTCR, and at Lazard. TYSON SLOCUM Tyson Slocum is the Director of Public Citizen's Energy Program, where his work covers the regulation of electricity, natural gas and petroleum markets, including commodity futures and FERC-jurisdictional matters to promote stronger transparency measures. Slocum was appointed to serve on the CFTC's newly created En­ergy & Environmental Markets Advisory Committee. He is the author of numerous reports and has presented his findings in testimony before Congress. Prior to Public Citizen, Slocum was a policy ana­lyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. PAUL SOTKIEWICZ Paul Sotkiewicz is a senior economist in the Market Services Divi­sion at the PJM Interconnection, providing analysis and advice with respect to PJM's market design and market performance including demand response mechanisms, scarcity pricing, intermittent and renewable resource integration, market power mitigation strategies, capacity markets and the potential effects of climate change and other environmental policies on PJM's markets. Prior to joining PJM, Sotkiewicz served as the director of Energy Studies at the University of Florida Public Utility Research Center, as an economist at FERC, and as an Instructor in the Department of Economics at the Univer­sity of Minnesota. VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW 299 NORTH SPRING MILL ROAD VILLANOVA, PA 19085 Villanova University School of Law is a Catholic and Augustinian institution that seeks to reflect the spirit of St. Augustine by the cultivation of knowledge, by respect for individual differences and by adherence to the principle that mutual love and respect should animate every aspect of the Law School's life. 

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