“Higher Energy Prices: New Paradigms and Policy Responses ”

Washington Energy Policy Conference
April 26, 2005
Ninth Annual Washington Energy Policy Conference

PROGRAM (PDF)

Welcome Remarks: David South, President, NCAC—USAEE

Wil Kohl, Johns Hopkins IEEP

II.Natural Gas and Coal Markets: Are Higher Prices and Price Volatility Here to Stay? Chair: David South, Technology and Market Solutions, LLC Outlook: Bruce Henning, Energy and Environmental Analysis (PDF) Panelists: Bob Bessette, Council of Industrial Boiler Owners Don Santa, Interstate Natural Gas Assoc. of America Hal Chappelle, Chappell Energy Associates (PDF)

Jerry Eyster, PA Consulting (PDF)

Keynote: Energy Futures Markets and Hedge Funds

Gary Vasey, VP, Utilipoint International (PDF)

Chair: Wil Kohl, Johns Hopkins IEEP Speakers: Peter Van Doren, CATO Institute (PDF) Ken Malloy, Center for Advancement of Energy Markets (PDF)

Tim Brennan, Univ. of Maryland ( Baltimore County) and Resources for the Future (PDF)

Chair: Shirley Neff, Columbia University Speakers: Skip Laitner, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (PDF) John Jimison, Combined Heat and Power Association (PDF) Jamie Wimberly, Distributed Energy Financial Group (PDF)

Reid Detchon, Energy Future Coalition

Biographies (In Order of Appearance)

David W. South

David W. South is the current president of the national capital area chapter of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. He is also the president of Technology & Market Solutions, LLC, a consulting practice that provides analytic, strategic and regulatory advice on technology, market and environmental issues to clients involved with electricity generation and distribution, industrial boilers and processes, and mobile sources. Mr. South has extensive experience with advanced power generation technologies: clean coal, combined cycle systems, nuclear, on-site generation, hydrogen, fuel cells, solar, biomass and wind. He is also well-versed on the fuel and environmental aspects of industrial boiler/process applications and selected mobile sources (e.g., rail, trucks and buses). For technologies, Mr. South examines the market niches, barriers-to-entry, market mechanisms and incentives, technology deployment strategies, best practices, and the impact of market restructuring and environmental regulations on adoption patterns. This includes such issues as green power trading, renewable portfolio standards (RPS), renewable energy certificates (RECs), and sustainable development requirements. Finally, Mr. South has experience with asset valuations, due diligence, and expert witness/litigation support as it relates to technologies and markets. Integrated into his market studies, Mr. South evaluates and monetizes the clean air and climate change implications, with emphasis on emissions trading, multi-pollutant control technologies, avoided emissions, and mitigation strategies. Prior to founding Technology & Market Solutions, LLC in 2002, Mr. South spent seven years with Energy Resources International, Inc. and sixteen years at Argonne National Laboratory.

Wilfrid L. Kohl

Wilfrid Kohl , a political economist, is research professor of international relations at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, where he established and for ten years directed the subfield on “Energy, Environment, Science and Technology.” He continues to teach and to direct the International Energy and Environment Program at the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute. Before coming to SAIS in Washington , Dr. Kohl was director of the SAIS European Center in Bologna, Italy, 1976-80. Dr. Kohl has served on the staffs of the National Security Council and the Ford Foundation. He has taught at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania and lectured at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute. He has served as consultant to the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, the Nuclear Energy Institute, and the Edison Electric Institute. He has participated in energy policy study groups at the Atlantic Council, and he is a regular participant in the Aspen Institute’s Energy Policy Forum. He served as a member/contributor in the Strategic Energy Initiative project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has been an advisor to the Consultants International Group and an elected council member of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. Dr. Kohl is the author/editor of several books on international relations and energy policy, including: After the Oil Price Collapse: OPEC, the United States and the World Oil Market (1991); International Institutions for Energy Management (1983); After the Second Oil Crisis: Energy Policies in Europe , America , and Japan (1982); and French Nuclear Diplomacy (1971). His recent articles have focused on Caspian Sea oil and OPEC behavior. Dr. Kohl received his B.A. in political science from Stanford in 1961, an M.A. in international affairs from the Fletcher School in 1963, and a Ph.D. in government/international relations from Columbia University in 1968.

Marianne S. Kah

Marianne S. Kah is the current president of the U.S. Association of Energy Economics. Ms. Kah is the chief economist at ConocoPhillips where she is responsible for developing the company’s market outlooks for global oil, natural gas, refining and marketing, and conducting special strategic studies. She is also the company’s expert in scenario planning. Ms. Kah’s former affiliations include Cabot Corporation (manager of planning), Conoco, Inc. (strategic planning coordinator), U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation - policy development group (senior analyst), U.S. General Accounting Office - energy and minerals division (policy analyst). Ms. Kah is the former chair and current member of the committee on economics and statistics of the American Petroleum Institute. She was a member of the National Association of Manufacturers chief economist’s forum (2003). Ms. Kah is also a member of the energy & transportation group ( Ms. Kah was the winner of the 50 Key Women in Energy Award in 2003 and 2004. She was also the winner of the 2003 senior fellow award from the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. Ms. Kah is a frequent speaker at energy conferences. She has also participated in recent National Petroleum Council studies of the U.S. natural gas outlook and oil inventories. Ms. Kah received her B.S. in economics from Cornell University in 1974 and an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University in 1976.

Edward L. Morse

Edward Morse is executive advisor at Hess Energy Trading Co., LLC, a proprietary-trading firm, with offices in New York , Boston , London and Singapore . His career in the energy sector spans more than two decades and includes senior positions in business, government, academia and publishing. He joined HETCO in April 1999 after more than a decade as publisher of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and other oil and gas industry newsletters. Dr. Morse also currently chairs a task force of the James A. Baker III Institute at Rice University on US Energy Security. He previously chaired a joint task force of the Baker Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations, which issued two reports on US energy security in 2001. A frequent commentator on oil market trends, both in writing and for broadcast media, Dr. Morse is the author or co-author of four books and some five dozen scholarly articles on politics, finance, energy and international affairs. His industry experience includes a management position at Phillips Petroleum Company and co-founder of the Petroleum Finance Company. In government he served in the Carter and Reagan administrations, including as deputy assistant secretary of state for international energy policy, at which time he also represented the United States at the IEA. He has taught at Princeton , Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities and was on the senior research staff of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Morse is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Oxford Energy Policy Club. He is a trustee of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, chairman at the Energy Forum of New York University, and a member of the advisory committees for the energy programs at Columbia University , the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the University of Houston . Dr. Morse worked with the United Nations Compensation Commission on Iraq as its principal oil consultant and negotiated with Iraqi authorities on behalf of the Commission. He has also worked closely with the Department of Defense on matters related to the Iraqi oil industry. In 2004 he won an award from the IAEE for distinguished writing on energy.

Roger Diwan

Roger Diwan is the managing director of PFC Energy's markets and countries group. The group includes a crude oil and products team and a country (political and economic) analysis team. Mr. Diwan leads the market analysis practice for PFC Energy, which applies a multi-disciplinary approach to assessing market conditions and prices. The practice combines political, economic, sectoral, market, competitive and commercial analyses in order to provide insight into the likely direction of oil trends. Mr. Diwan’s domains of expertise include crude oil market analysis and price forecasting; geopolitics of energy with particular focus on the Middle East ; and petroleum risk and mitigation strategies for oil companies. Mr. Diwan holds an M.A. in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies , The Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in international relations From the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris, and a B.A. in history from the Sorbonne University in Paris . He was born in Lebanon , and grew up in Paris , France . He speaks English, French, Arabic and Italian.

Martin R. Tallett

Martin Tellett is the president of EnSys Energy & Systems, a specialist international petroleum consultancy. He is an advisor to industry and government on regulatory, technologic and market issues, especially on factors impacting regional and global refining and markets. He is a frequent speaker on these topics and his papers have been published in Petroleum Economist, Platt’s Oilgram News, IPE Pipeline, Octane Week, Fuel Technology & Management and Chemical & Engineering News. A graduate chemical engineer from the University of Nottingham in England , he held refinery and supply planning positions with Exxon and Amoco Europe before entering consulting in 1977. For over 15 years, EnSys has supported the Department of Energy, EIA and EPA as well as private clients in the analysis of new fuels regulations, the technology and costs of meeting them, their refining technology, economics and import/export impacts. EnSys’ WORLD modeling system is employed by and for DOE, EIA, OPEC , US oil companies and industry organizations. Mr. Tallett has extensive international experience having worked in the Caribbean , South America , UK , Europe , North Africa , the Middle and Far East .

Bruce B. Henning

 Bruce B. Henning is the director of regulatory and market analysis at Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc. He has worked in the areas of natural gas and energy economics for 26 years. Mr. Henning joined EEA in January of 1997, providing clients with regulatory and rate design analysis, support and testimony, strategic and competitive analysis, gas supply planning, and natural gas pricing analysis and forecasting. He testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the relationship between gas and electric markets in California and the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on the impact of the Enron bankruptcy on electricity and gas markets. Mr. Henning has also testified before the FERC, the National Energy Board of Canada and in numerous state Public Service Commission proceedings. Mr. Henning and his colleagues at EEA provided the quantitative modeling for the National Petroleum Council study of natural gas markets in the fall of 2003. In addition, he conducted studies on the impacts of growing power generation demand for natural gas on gas industry infrastructure requirements, the impact of a single Northeast RTO in electricity markets, and the impact of growing gas-fired power generation on gas LDCs. Mr. Henning also developed a framework for the quantitative evaluation of gas market liquidity. Prior to joining EEA, Mr. Henning served as the chief economist for the American Gas Association. In his 15 years at AGA, he was responsible for economic analysis of gas utility regulation and FERC pipeline regulation, short and long term energy and economic forecasts and modeling, and the statistics publications and analysis of AGA. He has served as an instructor for gas rates fundamentals at the University of Wisconsin and advanced ratemaking for gas utilities at the University of Maryland . Mr. Henning received his B.S. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robert D. (Bob) Bessette

Robert D. (Bob) Bessette has been president of the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners (CIBO) since 1995. Through CIBO, he represents the interests of America ’s industrial energy users and producers on energy and environmental issues, technology development and advocacy. He works very closely with the US Congress, EPA and DOE, state government personnel, industry trade associations and others to promote its members’ and the nation’s industrial energy needs and objectives at the technical and national policy making levels. For 35 years Mr. Bessette has worked in all aspects of the industrial energy sector, from equipment design and development to all types of fuel application and use. His focus today is promoting sound energy and environmental policy development from a strong technical foundation. He has numerous publications, presentations and editorials to his credit. Mr. Bessett graduated from West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science in physics and a minor in economics. He and his wife, Gail, live in Warrenton , Virginia , have four children and currently eleven grandchildren.

Donald F. Santa, Jr.

Donald F. Santa , Jr. is the president of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA), the North American association representing the interstate and interprovincial natural gas pipeline industry. Prior to assuming this role in August 2003, Mr. Santa had been INGAA’s executive vice president since January 2003. In that capacity, he was responsible for INGAA’s regulatory, legislative, safety and environment activities. Mr. Santa brings an extensive background in government and in the energy industry to his position at INGAA. He served as majority counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1989-1993, where he worked on enactment of the Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act of 1989 and Energy Policy Act of 1992. Mr. Santa was nominated in 1993 to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he served until 1997. During his tenure as a commissioner, he worked on major FERC initiatives including Order No. 888 (open access rule for electric transmission) and implementation of Order No. 636 (the rule restructuring natural gas pipeline services). Upon leaving the government, Mr. Santa joined LG&E Energy Corp in Louisville , KY , where he served as a deputy general counsel and senior vice president for strategic planning from 1997 to 2001. Most recently before joining INGAA, he was a partner in the Washington , DC office of Troutman Sanders LLP where he was a member of the law firm’s federal regulatory practice group. Mr. Santa is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law and the Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. He resides with his wife and two children in Edgewater , MD. Harlan H. (Hal) Chappelle Harlan Chappelle is the president of Chappelle Energy Associates, Inc., an advisor on energy policy and corporate strategy for energy-related companies and organizations in North America . He has over 20 years experience in North American natural gas and oil exploration and production, petroleum and chemical processing, power generation, and energy marketing. Mr. Chappelle’s oil and gas experience encompasses the Rockies , West coast, West Texas , and Gulf coast, where he worked as an engineer and manager for Burlington Resources/LL&E. He served as an appointee in the DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy, and as director of planning and analysis for DOE at the Naval Petroleum Reserves in California . His power generation and energy marketing experience includes the western and the northeastern United States , and eastern Canada , where he was a vice president for Southern Company/Mirant. Mr. Chappelle is currently serving as an industry advisor to the Western Governors Association and the California Energy Commission on a large-scale assessment of natural gas in the western United States and Canada , facilitating involvement of non-governmental stakeholders as well as development of relevant scenarios and sensitivity analyses for evaluation. His other current activities include recapitalization and corporate restructuring for a privately-held exploration and production company, and market research and policy advice to the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association. Recently, Mr. Chappelle organized and led the demand task group for the National Petroleum Council’s natural gas study, coordinating the work of over 100 contributors in residential, commercial, industrial, and power generation demand for natural gas. Mr. Chappelle earned a bachelor of chemical engineering with honors from Auburn University in 1981, and a masters of science in petroleum engineering with highest honors from The University of Texas at Austin in 1985. He is a commander in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps reserve. He is also a member of the international board of advisors to the University of Houston Institute for Energy, Law and Enterprise .

Jerry Eyster

Jerry Eyster is a managing consultant with PA Consulting’s global energy practice. He has 30 years of experience analyzing coal, electric power, and environmental issues. Mr. Eyster has performed studies of the impacts of clean air regulations on coal and electric power markets and produced market assessments and price forecasts for coal and environmental allowances. He has led PA’s efforts to develop a multi-pollutant optimization model to assess the impacts of new government emission reduction policies. Prior to joining PA, Mr. Eyster was vice president of corporate development with A. T. Massey Coal Company. He had responsibility for external affairs and human resources and served as the company’s chief labor negotiator. Mr. Eyster previously worked in business development for Shell Coal International in London , England where he analyzed business plans and the performance of Shell's coal companies worldwide. He also worked for the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy where he served as director of electric power and energy data validation. Mr. Eyster holds a BA degree in political science and economics from Yale University (magna cum laude) and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Gary M. Vasey

Gary M. Vasey , is responsible for managing and building UtiliPoint R’s trading and risk management practice. He and his colleagues have served over 50 companies with industry analysis and consulting across North America and Europe . Over the course of a 20-year career, Dr. Vasey has acquired extensive experience in the energy and utilities industry. His professional background includes work with BP Exploration, Price Waterhouse, Cap Gemini Sogeti, Sybase, and TransEnergy Management, prior to founding and building his own energy consulting company, VasMark Group. VasMark was acquired by UtiliPoint R International in January 2004. Dr. Vasey is well-known in the energy industry, widely published, and a popular speaker on energy software and information technology issues and trends, and energy trading, transaction and risk management. He was the co-author of the first research report on hedge funds in the energy industry and is the moderator and co-founder of the Energy Hedge Fund Center web community. Dr. Vasey holds a BSc in geology from Aston University and a PhD in geology from the University of Strathclyde .

Peter Van Doren

Peter Van Doren is editor of Regulation published by the Cato Institute, and adjunct associate professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He taught at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University , from 1984 until 1991, at the School of Management , Yale University , from 1991 until 1993, and in the public administration program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1993 until 1997. In 1987-88 he was a postdoctoral fellow in political economy at Carnegie Mellon University . Dr. Van Doren’s publications include two books: Politics, Markets, and Congressional Policy Choices (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991) and Cancer, Chemicals, and Choices: Risk Reduction Through Markets (Cato Institute, 1999); and numerous articles in academic and policy journals including “The Deregulation of the Electricity Industry: A Primer”, Cato Institute Policy Analysis, no. 320 (October 6, 1998) and (with Jerry Taylor) “Rethinking Electricity Restructuring”, Cato Institute Policy Analysis, no. 530 (November 30, 2004). Dr. Van Doren received his bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977), and his masters (1980) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees from Yale.

Ken Malloy

Ken Malloy is the CEO of the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets (CAEM pronounced kay-em), which he founded in 1999. CAEM is an independent, non-profit, Washington DC , think tank specializing in the impact of technology and competition on transforming energy markets. Mr. Malloy is internationally recognized as a proponent of the energy industry’s transition from monopoly to competitive markets, having been featured widely in the media. He is currently engaging in a national debate with the Cato Institute rebutting their recommendation that we return to the monopoly model of utility regulation rather than continue to pursue the open-access model of competitive energy reform. Mr. Malloy led the team that was awarded the NARUC project on uniform business practices. He is the creator of the Retail Energy Deregulation Index (RED Index), a quantitative tool that ranks states/provinces in the US , Canada , UK , Australia , and New Zealand on their transition from the monopoly model to the competitive model. He has partnered with NARUC and DOE in developing the North American Summit on Energy Restructuring, and is the primary author of CAEM’s Default Final Report. Mr. Malloy proposed an innovative methodology for evaluating marketer market power to the Georgia Public Service Commission that was eventually embraced by marketers, the consumer advocate, and was included in the Commission’s final rule. Mr. Malloy was a member of PHB Hagler Bailly’s corporate strategy and market analysis group from 1996 to 1999. He was the U.S. Department of Energy’s lead career official on policies relating to competition, regulatory reform, and industry restructuring over three Administrations (1987 to 1996). A lawyer by training, he has held positions in the areas of natural gas, electricity and oil policy. Mr. Malloy was deputy executive director and general counsel of the Illinois Commerce Commission, director and assistant director of the predecessor of FERC's office of economic policy, and staff attorney in FERC's office of general counsel. During his FERC tenure, he worked on regulations that encouraged the development of competition in natural gas markets, working extensively on Orders 436, 451, 636 and wellhead decontrol legislation. Prior to FERC, Mr. Malloy was a law professor at Western New England College School of Law, teaching in the area of federal economic regulation of industry. Mr. Malloy graduated with honors from Boston College Law School in 1978, where he was an author and editor of the Boston College Law Review.

Tim Brennan

Tim Brennan is a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and a senior fellow with Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington , DC . From 1978 to 1986, Dr. Brennan served as a staff economist with the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1986, he joined George Washington University as an associate professor in its graduate telecommunications policy program. He came to UMBC in 1990, and has been affiliated with RFF since being named a Gilbert White Fellow in 1995. From 1996-97, he served as the senior economist for industrial organization and regulatory policy on the staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He currently serves as a staff consultant to the bureau of economics of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, advising on the economics of monopolization law and vertical restraints. Dr. Brennan’s research has covered topics in electricity, telecommunications, regulatory economics, antitrust, intellectual property, the First Amendment, and ethical issues in public policy. With Karen Palmer and others at RFF, he has written two books on the electricity industry, A Shock to the System in 1996 and Alternating Currents: Electricity Markets and Public Policy, published in 2004. His articles have appeared in journals in economics, law, and communications, including the Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Information Economics and Policy, the Antitrust Bulletin, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and the Harvard Law Review. Some of his research topics related to electricity include vertical integration and competition, cost recovery, capacity payments, market power measurement, real-time metering, and conservation policy. Dr. Brennan received his B.A. in mathematics in 1973 from the University of Maryland in College Park and his M.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics in 1978 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison .

Shirley Neff

Shirley Neff is an energy consultant and a nationally recognized expert in energy policy. She is vice president, Americans for Solar Power (ASPV) and is affiliated with the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation, and Public Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University where she is also an adjunct professor of energy policy. Previously, Ms. Neff was the economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for seven years until 2003. While on the staff of the Committee, she was the lead Democratic staff responsible for oil and gas, renewable energy policy, tax and R&D matters. She drafted the initial energy policy and tax bills that formed the basis of legislation ultimately passed by the Senate in 2002 (and again in July of 2003), and she was the lead staff behind Senate passage of the renewable portfolio standard and enactment of the OCS Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. Ms. Neff was a member of the Congressional delegation to the international negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change and participated in and led Congressional staff delegations to Western Europe , the Caspian region, China , Indonesia , Japan , and Singapore . In addition to her career in the Senate, Ms. Neff has extensive private and public energy sector experience. She was a senior governmental affairs director for Shell, 1996-1998, where she advised senior management on energy and environmental policy matters, including U.S. politics on sensitive international oil issues and global climate change. She held a similar role at with the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA), from 1989-93. Ms. Neff is currently the president-elect of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics and a recipient of the organization’s Senior Fellow Award. She served a member of an independent task force on strategic energy policy for the Council on Foreign Relations (2001). Ms. Neff has an M.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is fluent in French.

John A. “Skip” Laitner

Skip Laitner is a resource economist with more than 30 years experience in the areas of industrial energy efficiency studies, public policy reviews, and economic impact analysis. He currently serves as the senior economist for technology policy for the EPA Office of Atmospheric Programs. In that capacity, Skip was awarded EPA's 1998 gold medal for his work with a team of EPA economists that helped lay the foundation for the recent Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions. Mr. Laitner is a frequent lecturer and has appeared as an expert witness in more than four dozen legal hearings and adjudicatory proceedings throughout the country. He has testified on a variety of issues before legislative committees in Congress and in numerous states. He has conducted technical seminars on industrial energy efficiency policies in Australia , Canada , China , France , Germany , Korea , Mexico , South Africa , and Spain . In addition to his expert testimony, Mr. Laitner has written more than 150 papers and reports in the fields of community and economic development, industrial energy efficiency, energy and utility costs, and natural resource issues. He has taught related subjects at the graduate university level. Mr. Laitner has a master's degree in resource economics.

John W. Jimison

John W. Jimison serves as executive director and general counsel to the U.S. Combined Heat and Power Association. Mr. Jimison also practices law from his own office on Capitol Hill, specializing in energy regulation, transactions, and policy. He was previously a partner in the international law firm Cameron McKenna LLP, and a Partner with Berliner, Candon & Jimison, a Washington-based energy firm. From 1982-1985, Mr. Jimison was a principal administrator at the International Energy Agency in Paris , France , responsible for electricity policy and natural gas analyses. During the period from 1971 through 1981 he held several positions on Capitol Hill. Mr. Jimison also serves as general counsel of the International Association for Energy Economics and as general counsel of the United States Association for Energy Economics. He is a past president of the National Capital Area Chapter of the USAEE. Mr. Jimison holds a B.A. from the College of Wooster , Wooster , Ohio , and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center , granted in 1975. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, District of Columbia Bar, and Energy Bar Association.

Jamie Wimberly

Jamie Wimberly is the founder and CEO of the Distributed Energy Financial Group (DEFG, www.defgllc.com). DEFG is a specialized consulting and financial services firm focused on increasing market opportunities and raising capital for companies in the energy technology sector. In addition to DEFG, Mr. Wimberly co-founded and has served as president of the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets (CAEM, http://www.caem.org). He also serves on the board of advisors of finance investments, a portfolio management and investment banking company with approximately $1billion in investments, assisting the company with the creation of a hedge fund focused on alternative energy companies and technologies. Finally, Mr. Wimberly was recently elected to the board of America SCORES, a national non-profit focused on youth development with affiliates in 12 cities. Before joining CAEM, he served as vice president of the Consumer Energy Council of America (CECA), the nation's oldest consumer organization, and as a congressional staffer focusing on U.S. trade policy. While at CECA, in 1999, Mr. Wimberly initiated Distributed Energy: Towards A 21st Century Infrastructure, one of the first high-level, consensus-building projects focusing on distributed energy. He has published more than 40 articles on energy issues, telecommunications policy, and international trade. Mr. Wimberly has an M.A. degree from the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.

Reid Detchon

Reid Detchon is executive director of the Energy Future Coalition. The Coalition is a broad-based non-partisan public policy initiative that seeks to bring about change in U.S. energy policy to address three critical challenges related to the production and use of energy: the political and economic security threat posed by the world’s dependence on oil; the risk to the global environment from climate change; the lack of access of the world’s poor to the modern energy services they need for economic advancement. In June 2003, the Energy Future Coalition issued a report on the findings of a year-long collaborative process that brought together business, labor, and the environmental community to develop politically viable recommendations for change. It has continued its work to educate the public and policy makers about the need for action. From June 1999 through December 2001 Mr. Detchon served as director of special projects in Washington for the Turner Foundation, managing a portfolio of major grants aimed at increasing the effectiveness of environmental advocacy and encouraging federal action to avert global climate change. Previously he spent six years at Podesta Associates, a government relations and public affairs firm in Washington, D.C., where he was a principal. From 1989 to 1993 Mr. Detchon served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for conservation and renewable energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Previously he was principal speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush. Mr. Detchon worked for five years in the U.S. Senate, advising Senator John Danforth of Missouri on energy and environmental issues and serving as his legislative director. He was a reporter for the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune from 1974 to 1980.

Mr. Detchon is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Bethesda , Maryland.

Program Committee:

Sarah Banaszak Wil Kohl Len Levine Sarah McKinley Ron Planting Carol Rendall Anne Roland David South

Cindy Wilson