Teleseminar Audio CD: Understanding FERC Transmission Incentives

Whether you missed the original broadcast of this teleseminar or you attended and just want to listen to the presentation again, order the CD of this event. Use it for yourself, or better yet, set up a training session for other members of your staff at a time that’s most convenient for you. State utility commissions and NASUCA members pay only a shipping and handling fee of $15. You can expect your CD about 10 days after you place your order.

Understanding FERC Transmission Incentives:
What to Know Before You Apply or Intervene

Original Air Date: January 21, 2010

FERC’s Order 679 provides transmission owners with potential incentives designed to encourage transmission investments. These incentives represent an opportunity for utilities but threaten to raise costs for consumers. As a utility, how can you take advantage of these incentives? And as a state commission, how can you intervene to keep customer costs down?

This NRRI teleseminar gives you the most up-to-date information on FERC’s standards and evaluation practices. Listen as our panel of experts explains how you can determine application results—and intervene effectively to minimize consumer cost increases. You’ll even learn about policy alternatives that could help you improve predictability and reduce some of these costs.

What case law is available to clarify the application of these incentives? How do applicants demonstrate that they should get these incentives? And how can FERC improve the policy so that it doesn’t unfairly burden ratepayers?

Get answers to these questions, and more, when you purchase the CD of the latest NRRI teleseminar, “Understanding FERC Transmission Incentives: What to Know Before You Apply or Intervene,” originally broadcast on January 21, 2010.

Whether you represent a utility that’s thinking about applying for incentives, a state commission, a regulator, or just want to understand more about FERC’s application of this policy, this is information you can’t afford to do without.

First, NRRI Research Analyst Adam Pollock presents a comprehensive review of FERC’s transmission incentive policy and practice—and provides details on possible improvements. Then listen as our experts weigh in on the current incentive policy and their ideas for making it stronger.

Here’s just some of what you’ll learn when you purchase the CD of this in-depth, 90-minute teleseminar:

• A guide to FERC’s nexus test: how to make sure you pass it.
• ROE incentive levels: how FERC sets them and the problems inherent in that process.
• The latest details on requested and granted return-on-equity incentives.
• FERC case law on advanced technologies, RTO participation, transco formation, CWIP in rate base, and hypothetical capital structure incentive requests.
• ROE incentives: How to make the results more reasonable and predictable.
  …and more!

Hear what the experts have to say on the subject when you purchase the CD of the latest NRRI teleseminar, “Understanding FERC Transmission Incentives: What to Know Before You Apply or Intervene,” which originally aired on January 21, 2010.

Seminar panel of experts:

Adam Pollock, Research Analyst, NRRI
Scott Hempling, Executive Director, NRRI
Thomas B. Getz, Chair, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission
Larry Chaset, Senior Attorney, California Public Utilities Commission
Scott H. Strauss, Partner, Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP

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