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High prices for divested generation have contributed significantly to paying-down utilities’ stranded costs, signaling a quicker transition to a more competitive electricity market in California than originally expected. This development brings in its wake a series of oversight and business challenges as regulators attempt to define what this new market will look like—and market participants position themselves to survive in it. Complicating the picture is the emerging rivalry between publicly-owned and investor-owned utilities, stresses in the ISO market revealed by last summer’s heat wave, and the need to adapt tranmission planning to new market realities, including the impressive list of new generation projects proposed for the state. This program brings together market participants and regulators to explain how these developments are reshaping California’s experiment—and what those responses promise for the future.

Program Co-Chairs: Arthur O’Donnell and John L. Scadding, Ph.D.

Credits: 14 CA MCLE credits applied for;13.5 OR CLE credits applied for

Who Should Attend?For all lawyers and public and private utility professionals; energy industry executives; power marketers; economists and consultants; and agency officials.