POWER Tenth Annual Research Conference on Electricity Industry Restructuring

2005 Conference Program

Session I
“The Impact of Power Plant Divestitures on Operating Performance,” James B. Bushnell (UC Berkeley) and Catherine Wolfram (UC Berkeley) Slides

“Geographic Integration, Transmission Constraints, and Electricity Restructuring,” Andrew N. Kleit (Pennsylvania State University) and James D. Reitzes (The Brattle Group) Slides

Discussants:
Anne Cleary (Mirant Corporation)
Erin Mansur (Yale University) Slides

“Quantifying the Supply-Side Benefits from Forward Contracting in Wholesale Electricity Markets,” Frank Wolak (Stanford University) Slides

Discussant:
Jun Ishii(UC Irvine) Slides

Session II
“Real Options Valuation of US Federal Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment,” Afzal S. Siddiqui (University College Dublin) and Chris Marnay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Ryan H. Wiser (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Slides

“Effective Load Carrying Capability of Wind Generation: Initial Results with Public Data,” Ed Kahn (Analysis Group) Slides

"Valuing the Time-Varying Electricity Production of Solar Photovoltaic Cells," Severin Borenstein (UC Berkeley) Slides

Discussants:
Alex Farrell (UC Berkeley)
Michael Haas (Orion Energy)

“A Capacity Market that Makes Sense,” Peter Cramton (University of Maryland) and Steven Stoft Slides

“A Review of the Monitoring of Market Power,” Paul Twomey (University of Cambridge) and Richard Green (University of Hull Business School) and Karsten Neuhoff (University of Cambridge) and David Newbery (University of Cambridge) Slides

Discussants:
James B. Bushnell (UC Berkeley) Slides
Robert Ethier (ISO-New England) Slides