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CBI’s Electric Reliability Congress is a high-level, two tracked, industry forum featuring direct stakeholders that are shaping the policies of reliability. Reliability is the paramount concern of the North American electric industry. Since the blackout of August, 2003, the focus in the U.S. Congress, U.S. DOE and industry stakeholders is to address the shortcomings of our infrastructure immediately. How the reliability problem should be solved is up for debate. We have the technology, but we do not have agreement on process, financing upgrades and government involvement. This Congress will provide a forum at the highest level to bring the industry together to discuss these matters.

We have gathered an impressive lineup of industry speakers to share their knowledge and provide you with information and plausible solutions.

Distinguishing Program Features:

Day One, May 20, 2004 -- Keynote Addresses Presented by:

Dave Nevius, Senior Vice President, North American Electric Reliability Council -- "NERC Update on Reliability Actions"

William L. Massey, Commissioner, FERC -- "Avoiding the Next Blackout - An Update on Changes and Safeguards Implemented to Protect Another Outage"

Hans Konow, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Electricity Association -- "Ensuring a Reliable North American Electricity System"

James Glotfelty, Director, United States Department of Energy -- "The Blackout Investigation -- Continual Findings of the Blackout Report"

Day Two, May 21, 2004 -- 2 Tracks

Track 1: Resource Planning for Reliability - Generation and Transmission

Keynote Address by:

Paul McCoy, Executive Vice President,
Transmission Systems Operations, Trans-Elect

Track 2: Strategies for Assuring Operational Reliability

Keynote Address by:

Clark Gellings, Vice President of Power Delivery and Markets, EPRI

PLUS! A Panel Discussion

Diverse executive networking opportunities – General sessions, luncheons and an evening reception

Attendance of senior executives including regulatory affairs, transmission, generation and operations members of the energy industry

AND

Three half-day pre-conference hands-on workshops on:

  1. Distributed Energy - Achieve Independent Reliability

  2. Infrastructure Upgrades - Technology to Increase Reliability

  3. Siting and Financing Transmission - Best Practices for Ensuring Development
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