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Is America facing a reliability crisis? -- Live audio event, Audio CD and On-demand audio, June 20, 2008, 12:00 - 1:30 CDT

Is the US on the verge of a reliability crisis? Whose job is it to avert the crisis? Hear from former EPRI CEO and now Galvin Electricity Initiative Executive Director Kurt Yeager, Idaho PUC Commissioner and NARUC President Marsha Smith and GridWise Alliance President Steven Hauser ...

    /Power and Energy PR News/ - WASHINGTON, DC, June 11, 2008 -- Restructuring Today has signed up Kurt Yeager from noon until 1:30 pm Central time on June 20 to face this question and tell America what it needs to do. For many years he headed EPRI. Recently he joined the Galvin Electricity Initiative as executive director.

Marsha Smith is a member of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission and she heads up the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

She'll join the panel too along with Steven Hauser. He's the vice president for strategy at GridWise Alliance, an advocacy group supporting a national imperative for modernizing the nation's electric infrastructure

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The panel will look into the question of what America should do right now and try to answer what may be the biggest questions facing the industry today:

* Whose job is it to avert the crisis?
* What is the role of corridors in reliability planning?
* Where is demand going? What is demand likely to grow to in our lifetimes?
* Can the electric industry meet the target?
* What role will higher prices play in the mix?
* Will the industry be able to meet its goals given America's carbon concerns?
* Can that be done at a price America can pay?
* Will the industry be willing to put out the money to meet the demand?
* What about tensions between states and RTOs?
* Who actually has the authority to fix the problem?

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For details and ways to register, please visit: http://www.restructuringtoday.com/reliability-247

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