KEMA’s 3rd Annual Utility of the Future Leadership Forum

Strategic choices — striking equilibrium

KEMA’s 3rd annual forum, "Strategic choices — striking equilibrium," focused on opportunities to shape a more sustainable, reliable, and profitable utility of the future.

 

Industry executives discussed new decision-making approaches to address energy and utility issues—balancing utilities' objectives, technologies, business models, and environmental concerns with long-term direction. The forum was held in Washington, DC, June 23–25, 2010. 

The 3rd annual Utility of the Future Leadership Forum panels included:

• Utility CEOs — Balancing business and technology for sustainable energy supply and delivery

• What's next in the utility-customer relationship: balancing choices to extract value   

• Achieving a balance across prime fuels, conversion technologies and environmental pressures

• The delicate balance between federal and state regulations  

• Balancing investment strategies    

• Opinion: carbon, climate and environment   

• Balancing mature and emerging technologies to enable a sustainable intelligent infrastructure 

An array of energy and utility industry leaders gathered for the forum, such as:

• Phillip Barnett, CFO, PECO

• Bill Capp, President and CEO, Beacon Power

• Robert Catell, Chairman, AERTC and Chairman, NYS Smart Grid Consortium

• H.B. "Trip" Doggett, CEO, ERCOT

• Hon. Joseph T. Kelliher, EVP, NextEra Energy and former FERC Chairman

• Michael Morris, Chairman, President and CEO, AEP

• Michael Mudd, CEO, FutureGen

• Jim Rogers, CEO, Duke Energy

• Dan Reicher, Director, Google

• Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute 

• Ivo Steklac, EVP, Sales and Strategy, Tendril

• David Wade, EVP and COO, Chattanooga Electric Power Board

• Audrey Zibelman, President and CEO, Viridity Energy