DATE

TIME

PRESENTATION

May 6th

8:45 - 10:00 AM

• New Market Realities - Bob Reid
• New Market Realities - Jim Schultz
• Electicity Regulation and Environmental Issues - Stewart MacPherson

10:15 - 11:00 AM

• Allowed Returns on Equity - Brian Wallace
• Utility Returns on Equity - Jane Peverett
• Utility Stock Prices and Allowed ROEs - Jill Gardiner

11:00 - 12:00 AM

• Commodity Competition to Small Volume Customers - Has it Delivered? - Gerry Forrest
• Commodity Choice for Small Volume Customers - J. A. Wachowich
• Retail Energy Competition - Has it Delivered? - Rudy Riedl

1:15-2:15 PM

• Who Should Get the Value of the Embedded/Low Cost Generation in a Competitive Environment? - Gary Saleba
• Regulatory Issues in Competitive Energy Markets - Mark Drazen
• Competitive Electricity Markets and the Battle for Economic Rent - Mark Jaccard

2:15 - 3:15 PM

• Duke Energy Gas Transmission - Alan Harris
• Mergers & Aquisitions: What are the Drivers Behind Them? How are they Evaluated? - Ron Munkley

2:15 - 3:15 PM

• Affiliate Transactions: Codes, Transfer Pricing and Public Interest - David Masuhara
• Affiliate Transactions - Marika Hare
• Affiliate Transactions:  Can Regulators Adequately Protect Ratepayers? - Greg Matwichuk

3:30 - 4:30 PM

• Trading "Risks and Rewards" - Paul H.McMillan

May 7th

8:30 - 10:00 AM

• Electricity Restructuring Updates - William J. Keese
• Regulatory Issues in Competitive Energy Markets - Floyd Laughren
• Electricity Restructuring Update - Peter G. Esposito

10:15 - 11:15 AM

• Incentive Regulation and Commodity Competition: Impacts on Quality of Service and Rates . - John Todd
• Quality of Service - Preventing Skid Row in the New Utility World - Michael Janigan
• Incentive Regulation and Commodity Competition - Impacts on Quality of Service and Rates - Nick Schultz
• Gaz Métropolitain - Incentive Regulation and Commodity Competition - Pierre Despars

11:15 - 12:00 AM

• Distributed Generation - What Benefits? Whose Barriers? - David Van Holde
• Small Power Development Realities - Richard Hopp
• A Skeptics View of Distributed Energy - Trent Berry

1:15 - 3:00 PM

• Issues Faced by Gas Pipelines - Céline Bélanger
• LDC Issues - Jerome F. Engler
• Issues Faced by Gas Pipelines - Juri Otsason
• Issues Faced by LDCs - Rick Birmingham

3:15 - 4:15 PM

• Utility Sponsored Energy Efficiency Efforts - Michael Singleton
• Energy Efficiency and Energy Technology - Is Self Interest Working? - Roger Higgin
• BC Hydro and Power Smart - Shawn Thomas

May 8th

  8:30 - 10:00 AM

• RTO Developments in the Northeast and Midwest Implications for Ontario - Amir Shalaby
• Providing Fair Access to Secure Transmission at Economic Rates - Fergal McNamara
• Electricity Transmission - The Quebec Situation - Jean A. Guérin
• North American Developments in Electricity Transmission - Yakout Mansour

10:15 - 11:45 AM

• Northern Gas - Where are We? Where are We Going? - Gaétan Caron
• Offshore Oil and Gas in British Columbia - Patrick O'Rourke
• The Scotian Basin and the North American Supply Picture - Rob Whitwham
• Natural Gas Potential in Canada - 2001 - Rob Woronuk