POWERING UP: INDUSTRY LEADERS TO DISCUSS
THE FUTURE OF THE
ELECTRICITY MARKET DURING UH-GEMI CONFERENCE
As electricity prices continue to rise, energy leaders are considering
new technologies that could keep consumers from digging deeper into
their pocketbooks.
Industry executives will convene during an event sponsored by the
University of Houston’s Global Energy Management Institute
(UH-GEMI) to consider electricity’s future. The “How
Will New Power Technologies Transform the Electricity Market Place?”
conference will take place Thursday, June 29, at the UH Hilton Hotel.
UH-GEMI is part of the Bauer College of Business.
“The electricity industry faces many complex challenges,”
said Craig Pirrong, energy markets director for UH-GEMI. “Those
challenges include improving efficiency to keep consumer costs under
control, diversifying the fuel mix to avoid excessive dependence
on natural gas, meeting increasingly strict environmental requirements
and facilitating price competition that will benefit both commercial
and residential consumers.”
Christopher Ross, vice president at CRA International, will deliver
the luncheon keynote address “Energy in Transition –
New Business Models.” Ross’ expertise is in strategy
and organization assignments in the worldwide petroleum industry,
where he has more than 30 years of experience.
For more information about the conference, go to https://www.bauer.uh.edu/uhgemi/Forms/power06.htm.
WHAT: |
Power Conference: How
Will New Power Technologies Transform The Electricity Market
Place? |
WHO: |
UH-GEMI |
WHEN: |
Thursday, June 29 |
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8:40 -
10 a.m. Generation Technologies |
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- New Nuclear Power -- Ed Cummins, Vice
President, New Power Plants, Westinghouse
- IGCC and Super Pulverized Coal with BACT
-- Daniel W. Tse, Commercialization Manager, General Electric
- Generation Technologies in a Carbon-constrained
Future -- Steven Specker, President & CEO, EPRI
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10:25 -
11:35 a.m. Future Transmission Technologies |
- Armchair Quantum Wires -- Wade Adams,
Rice University
- Superconductivity -- Alex Ignatiev, University
of Houston
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11:35 a.m.
- noon Demand Management and Metering Technologies
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- BPL/Smart Grid Technologies -- C. John
Wilder, Chairman, President & CEO, TXU Corp.
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12 - 12:30
p.m. Institutional Innovations |
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- Market Design & Regulatory Framework
-- Tanya Bodell, Vice President, CRA International
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12:30 - 1:30
p.m. Luncheon Address: Energy in Transition – New Business
Models |
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- Luncheon Speaker – Christopher Ross,
Vice President, CRA International
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WHERE: |
University of Houston Hilton, Waldorf-Astoria
Ballroom |
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