The Utility Industry of the Future
Keynote: Audrey Zibelman, Chair, New York State Public Service Commission
Monday, March 3rd: 8:30am – 4pm
NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall
Greenberg Lounge, 1st Floor
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY
RSVP: (http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/elc/conferences/utility)
6.5 Professional Practice CLE Credits Available
This symposium will examine potential futures for the U.S. electric utility industry. The emergence of cost-competitive distributed energy resources, the application of information technologies, and the curtailment of customer demand for electricity have led regulators and industry experts to call for new business and regulatory models for the electric distribution utility.
Across the United States, state Public Service Commissions are reviewing existing incentives to attract stable investment and increase innovation. While in the Northeast, regulatory processes are examining how utilities can prepare for future natural disaster and cyber threats. Although there is widespread agreement that the electricity industry is entering a period of change, the shape of those changes in New York, the Northeast, and the United States is not clear.
Four panels will discuss aspects of the utility industry of the future:
Panel 1: Potential Business Models
Panel 2: New Regulatory Models to Drive Innovation
Panel 3: Financial Implications of the Utility Transformation
Panel 4: Transformations in New York’s Utility Regulatory Environment: Then and Now
Panelists will include legal practitioners, academics, policymakers, and other major figures in the field of electricity regulation.
Organized by the Environmental Law Society, the Environmental Law Journal, and the Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law.
Environment and Energy Law at NYU:
FACULTY: Vicki Been, Mark Brownstein, Paolo Galizzi, Mike Gergen, Eric Goldstein, C. Boyden Gray, Dale Jamieson, Nathaniel Keohane, Nancy Marks, Michael Oppenheimer, Richard Revesz, Bryce Rudyk, Amelia Salzman, Jason Schwartz, Richard Stewart, Chaim Wachsberger, Katrina Wyman
SENIOR FELLOWS: Paul Francis, Energy; Jonathan Schrag, Energy; Laetitia De Marez, Climate
The Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law focuses on market-based policy and regulation to solve global and local problems in energy, climate and environment. The current research focuses on: utility regulatory reform, new mechanisms for energy finance, and the global architecture for climate action.
The Guarini Center is a research center at the NYU School of Law and with the Furman Center on Real Estate and Urban Policy, the Institute for Policy Integrity, leading environmental law faculty and adjuncts, and numerous courses and clinics, comprise the environmental and land use law program at NYU.