National Electricity Delivery Forum Overview

• Day 1 will begin with a keynote session designed to frame the highest level policy and technological issues for energy officials. After the initial keynote session, attendees will participate in a series of small workshops designed to address specific policy issues. These workshops are intended to be very interactive.
• Day 2 will be a series of general sessions designed to educate energy officials on a variety of transmission and distribution issues.

Forum's Goals

• Exchange ideas and discuss current and needed future efforts that will encourage a major physical expansion and modernization of the U.S. electric transmission and distribution systems through revised State and Federal policies and procedures;
• Provide a forum for the "roll out" of major work products developed by DOE and other organizations;
• Provide a dialogue with national associations (and the members of those associations) involved with energy policy representing both public and private sector interests;
• Provide a national dialogue with think tanks, research organizations, environmental organizations, universities and individuals of distinction in the electric power arena;
• Evaluate fundamental and proposed policy and technical issues associated with electric transmission and distribution system enhancements;
• Examine how State and Federal officials are implementing the Electricity Title of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; and
• Evaluate the steps needed to deploy the appropriate technologies to expand and modernize the US electric power delivery system, including the deployment of energy efficiency technologies.

Why is the National Electricity Delivery Forum Needed?
On February 6, 2003 President Bush highlighted the need to "...modernize our electric delivery system…for economic security…and for national security." Since that time, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability has undertaken a series of projects with many stakeholder groups on the complex technical and policy issues related to modernizing the electric delivery system. At the same time, states have also undertaken a variety of measures to coordinate and plan for a robust system. Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which provides for a series of incentives to upgrade the system. Decisions made today will impact the modernization efforts of the system for decades to come. It is essential to get policies, incentives, investment strategies, and regional planning and siting objectives right so that the much needed system upgrades can be constructed. The National Electricity Delivery Forum will ascertain the status of both federal and state efforts to modernize the U.S. electricity delivery system, including implementation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The National Forum will result in a strong assessment of what has been accomplished in 2005 and what next steps, both near-term and long-term, need to be addressed in 2006 to accomplish the goal of a robust, reliable electricity delivery system to serve U.S. consumers for generations to come.

Who Should Attend
Chief Executive Officers
Senior Management
Policy Decision Makers
Consumer Advocates
State Legislators
State Public Utility Commissioners and Staff
State Energy Officials
Federal Energy Officials
Members of Congress and Staff
Press, media and analysts
Researchers and academics with interest in the U.S. Transmission System

Suggested Attire
Business Attire

General Information
The National Electricity Delivery Forum is being managed by the Consumer Energy Council of America (CECA). For more information regarding the National Forum please contact Peggy Welsh, Senior Vice President, CECA at pwelsh@cecarf.org or call 202-659-0404.