Developing markets in west ii

FERC Commissioner Nora Brownell

Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger's energy adviser, Joe Desmond

A key regulator, Arizona Corporation Commission Chairman Mark Spitzer

Vicki Sandler, president of APS Energy Services

Jackson Mueller, an adviser to industrial and other large energy buyers

What are the obstacles to developing western markets now?

Can FERC guide design of markets without pro-monopoly Congress members reversing the Supreme Court's latest ruling on native load?

How does California's MD 02, the California ISO plan to design a market, fit in with developing western markets and federal policy?

Bottom line, if parochialism is the main obstacle to developing markets, how do we address it? Any hope in that direction?

One school of thought is that the West has had a vibrant power market for many years without FERC's fostering one. If so, why do they need FERC?

Western opposition to FERC line siting is ferocious. How can that be approached?

More than 50% of the power lines in Arizona are owned by public power, a community frightened at the concept of discipline of the marketplace. How should that be approached?

Is the development of western markets a threat to the hidden subsidies in cheap hydropower?

Should federal agencies sell their power at market rates in fairness to US taxpayers or should taxpayers get less than market rates to subsidize the Northwest?

What drivers determine a healthy market? How do we get there? Is financial stability near? What's needed to get there?

How should the market be structured? How close is the western market to functional now?

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