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REVISED June 22, 2006 finance, and institutions. Its publications, seminars, workshops, and courses make available the latest advances to academics, conferences, courses, seminars, and workshops in Other research from the Center’s programs has been published in the book series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy  180 University Avenue  Newark, NJ 07102-1897 REVISED June 22, 2006 3:00 - 4:00 Registration Windjammer 1&2 4:00 - 6:00 Welcome to Conference: Michael A. Crew Karl A. McDermott: William E. Kovacic: 6:00 - 7:00 Cocktail Hour Oak Tree 1-3 & Terrace 8:00 - 9:40 Concurrent Sessions Windjammer GRID MANAGEMENT Windjammer 3&4 Chair: Matthew Robinson Discussants: Ahmad Faruqui & Phillip McLeod Jeremy Bloom: Optimal Equipment Replacement and the Value of Testing Elementary Analysis of Energy Options for Windjammer 1&2 Chair: Rami Kahlon Discussants: Patrick Ha ger & John Jurewitz Art M. Altman & Remi Audouin: Hedging Energy Portfolio Chris M. Schlegel: Better and Faster Measures of Energy Risk – and How to Actually Do It Steve W. Chriss: Regulatory Incentives and Natural Gas Purchasing – Lessons from the Oregon Natural Gas Procurement Study 9:40 - 10:00 Coffee Break 10:00 - 11:40 Concurrent Sessions Windjammer TRANSFORMATION Windjammer 3&4 Chair: Dennis Stevens Discussants: Carl Danner & Robin Walther David T. Barker Analysis Cliff Rochlin: Revisiting Industry Convergence Brian C. Prusnek: California’s Energy Policy CAPACITY Windjammer 1&2 Chair: Ray D. Williams Discussants: Alan E. Finder, Stephen Keehn, & Colin Loxley Carl Pechman: The Policy Response to the California Energy Crisis – Is it Adequate? Scott M. Harvey: Resource Adequacy Mechanisms: Spot Gary A. Stern & Jeffrey Nelson: for California 11:40 - 1:00 Lunch Break 1:00 - 2:30 Concurrent Sessions Windjammer ACCESS Windjammer 3&4 Chair: John Sumpter Discussants: Carl Danner & Julie Kelly Michael D. Pelcovits & Rick Warren-Boulton: Open Access Policies and Incentives for Innovation in Telecomm Aram Shumavon : Regulatory Implications for Voice and Data Services among Telecomm unications Service Providers DYNAMIC PRICING I Windjammer 1&2 Chair: Dennis Keane Discussants: Phil Auclair, Mich ael Jaske & John C. Martin Ahmad Faruqui, Stephen George, & John Winfield: The Impact of Dynamic Pricing on Hourly Loads Janice S. Berman & Susan E. McNicoll: Demand Response Ross C. Hemphill: Developing a Portfolio of Electricity Pricing Products for Large Industrial Customers 2:30 - 4:00 Concurrent Sessions Windjammer Windjammer 3&4 Chair: Gregory M. Duncan Discussants: Victor Glass, Bob Jacob, & Laurna Prantil Michael Ward & Glenn Woroch: Fixed-Mobile Telephone Subscription Substitution in the U.S. David J. Salant: Technology Neutral Procurement of Anurupa Sen: Emergence of MVNOs – Do MVNOs Need Regulation to Survive? DYNAMIC PRICING II Windjammer 1&2 Chair: Clay Faber Discussants: Fred Curry, Tom Frantz, & Paul Nelson Simplify Unnecessarily Complicated Proposals for Effi cient Pricing of Electricity Michael Kelleher, Charles Goldman & Bernie Neenan: Identifying and Overcoming Customer Aversion to Hourly Pricing Mark Reeder: Think Real-Time Pricing 6:00 - 9:00 Cocktail Hour Oak Tree 1-3 & Terrace Dinner & Keynote Speech: Rachelle Chong , Commissioner - California Public Utilities Commission Regency 1-2 REVISED June 22, 2006 8:45 - 10:40 Concurrent Sessions Windjammer COST OF CAPITAL Windjammer 3&4 Chair: Michael Schneider Discussants: Alan E. Fi nder & Kevin S. Bassler Ronald Knecht: Imputed-Debt and Ratemaking – Solutions in Search of a Problem Paul T. Hunt: Alternative Methods of Estimating Utility Cost of Capital Other Taxes TRANSMISSION Windjammer 1&2 Chair: Carl Linvill Discussants: Jeffrey Nelson & Carl Silsbee Anjali Sheffrin : Gains from Trade Model Helps Identify Benefits of Transmission Expansion Farrokh A. Rahimi, Jeff McDonald, Mingxia Zhang, & Benjamin F. Hobbs Kevin Woodruff: 10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:55 Windjammer 1&2 Kevin P. Coughlan: Water Regulation – Reforming the Back-Water of Regulation Timothy J. Brennan: Fair Trade or Imperialism – Importing “Mer ger Guidelines” into (De)Regulatory Policy Menahem Spiegel: Bundled Vs. Unbundled Utilities 12:55 - 1:00 Concluding Remarks – Michael A. Crew Art M. Altman , Program Manager, Power Mark Phil Auclair , Senior Consultant, Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. Remi Audouin , Research Project Manager, EDF R&D, EPRI David T. Barker Economist, Southern Calif ornia Gas Company/SDG&E Kevin S. Bassler , Senior Financial Analyst, Southern Company Services, Inc. Janice S. Berman Director, Rates & Tariffs Department, Pacific Gas & Electric Jerome Bezzina , Regulatory Economist The World Bank Jeremy Bloom , Manager, Power Delivery Timothy J. Brennan , Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Maryland Baltimore County , Commissioner - California Public Utilities Commission Steve W. Chriss Economist, Public Utility Commission of Oregon Kevin P. Coughlan , Director, Water Division, California Public Utilities Commission Michael A. Crew , Director – CRRI, Rutgers University Anne-Marie Cuneo Public Utilities Commission of Nevada Fred Curry , Chief, Water Advisory Boar Commission , Director, Wilk & Associates / LECG LLC Gregory M. Duncan , Director , Deloitte & Touche LLP Robert Entriken , Manager Policy Analysis, EPRI Clay Faber , Director - California Regulatory Affairs, Sempra Energy Utilities Ahmad Faruqui , Vice President, CRA International Alan E. Finder , Senior Manager, KPMG LLP Tom Frantz , Director - Electric Division, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission Rachele Gianfranchi , ICT Specialist, The World Bank Victor Glass Director, National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc. Patrick Hager , Manager of Regulatory Affairs, Portland General Electric Co. Scott M. Harvey , Director, LECG Ross C. Hemphill , Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting Paul T. Hunt , Manager of Regulatory Finan ce and Economics, Southern California Edison Company , Director - Industry Analysis, Sprint John Jurewitz , Director of Regulatory Polic y, Southern California Edison Rami Kahlon , Advisor to President Peev ey, California Public Utilities Commission , Senior Analyst , Pacific Gas & Electric Stephen A. Keehn , Regulatory Policy Manager, Sempra Energy Michael J. Kelleher , Senior Vice President, National Grid USA , Director of Economics and Research, American Public Power , Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses Ronald Knecht , Economist, Public Utilities Commission of Nevada William E. Kovacic , Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission , Chief of Staff to Comissioner John Bohn, California Public Utilities Commission , Comissioner, Public Utilities Commission of Nevada , Director-Resource Planning, PSE&G , Business/Economic Advisor, San Diego Gas & Electric Karl A. McDermott , Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting Susan E. McNicoll Principal Regulatory Analyst, Pacific Gas & Electric Jeffrey Nelson Paul Nelson , Senior Economist, Southern California Edison Carl Pechman , President, Power Economics Michael D. Pelcovits , Principal, Microeconomic Consulting and Research Laurna Prantil, Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses Brian C. Prusnek Schwarzenegger, State of California Farrokh A. Rahimi Mark Reeder , Director - Office of Regulatory Economics, New York State Department of Public Service Matthew H. Robinson , Postal Rate and Classification Specialist, U.S. Postal Rate Commission , Principal, ERS Group Michael Schneider , Director of Business Analysis, San Diego Gas & Electric Anurupa Sen , Associate Analyst, , NERA Economic Consulting Chris M. Schlegel , Risk Control, Southern Company Anjali Sheffrin Aram Shumavon , Advisor, California Public Utilities Commission , Manager of Regulatory Economi cs, Southern California Edison Menahem Spiegel , Associate Professor and Associate Director – CRRI, Rutgers Dennis Stevens , Principal Economist, United States Postal Service Gary A. Stern California Edison John Sumpter , Vice President – Regulatory, Pac-West Telecomm, Inc. , Analyst, Arizona Public Service Company Robin Walther , Consultant , Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington Ray D. Williams , Manager-Hydro Divestiture Project, Pacific Gas & Electric Kevin Woodruff , Principal, Woodruff Expert Services REVISED June 22, 2006 Jasmin Ansar (Pacific Gas and Electric) Jeremy Bloom (EPRI) Michael A. Crew (Rutgers University) Fred Curry (California Public Utilities Commission) Ahmad Faruqui (Charles River Associates) David Gamson (California Public Utilities Commission) Christopher Garbacz (Mississippi Public Utility Staff) John Jurewitz (Southern California Edison) Dennis Keane (Pacific Gas & Electric) Ronald Knecht (Public Utilities Commission of Nevada) Carl Pechman (Power Economics) Cliff Rochlin (Southern California Gas) David Salant (ERS Group) John Sumpter (Pac-West Telecomm, Inc.) ESERVATIONS Sufficient Rooms are reserved at the Hyatt Regency for all of the Conference participants. Particip ants should register for the Reservations must be received by June 1, 2006 . Hotel reservation can be made by phone 1 Old Golf Course Road, Tel: 1-800-233-1234 or 831 372 1234 Fax: 831 375 3960 Home Page: http://crri.rutgers.edu Address: Center for Resear ch in Regulated Industries Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, 180 University Avenue Newark, NJ 07102-1897 Phone: 973-353-5761 Fax: 973-353-1348 Email: mcrew@rutgers.edu (Michael Crew) crri@rbs.rutgers.edu (Jeremy Guenter) EGISTRATION To Register: Registrations are accepted by mail, email, fax, and telephone. Please confirm telephone registrations by sending in a completed and signed registration form. The deadline for registrations is May 22, 2006. Registrations r eceived after May 22, 2006, will be admitted on a space available basis. Volume discount: Second and subsequent applications received in the same envelope, fax, email, or made at the same time by phone will receive a 5% volume discount. 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