Disaster Management & Cost Recovery For Utilities & Energy Companies

Overview:

Disaster management and emergency response should play a part in every utility and energy company?s operational plan. Procedures to consider include not only service restoration and asset protection but also financial planning and cost recovery. Ensuring an adequate reserve of funds and that costs will be adequately recovered allows optimum use of scarce available resources. This ensures rapid restoration of services, and ultimately the return to reliable revenue stream. As a preemptive measure, utilities and energy companies need a plan to establish baseline communication, emergency services, and an adequate response to an incident. It is also essential to restore water and telecommunications as a first line of action in disaster management. Disaster Management and Cost Recovery for Utilities and Energy Companies will examine these topics considering what hasn?t worked previously, why and what will be done in the future to avoid catastrophic losses.

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Attendees Will Learn:

This conference will serve at least two audiences ? those responsible for the physical and financial planning for disaster outages and those responsible for the response and restoration of services after disaster strikes.

Topics Include:

Anatomy of Disaster ? Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Resource Interdependency ? Water

Telecom Disaster Recovery

Mississippi Power?s Success

Improvements to OMS and MWFM Systems to Streamline Work Processes for Efficient Damage Management

Lessons in Disaster Management from the Gulf Coast

Disaster Preparedness on the New Madrid Fault

New Uses of Securitization to Mitigate Rate Impact of Natural Disasters

Cost Recovery

Speakers Include:

Daniel F. Packer, President and CEO, Entergy New Orleans, Inc.

Nora Mead Brownell, Commissioner, FERC

Lambert Boissiere III, Commissioner, Louisiana PSC, District III

Fred Butler, Commissioner, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities

Mike Callahan, Vice President, Electric Power Association of Mississippi; Former Commissioner, Mississippi Public Utilities

Joseph Fichera, CEO, Saber Partners LLC, Advisor, Florida Public Service Commission

Paul Foran, Vice President, Regulatory Programs, American Water

Becky Klein, Managing Partner, Loeffler Group; Former Chairman, PUC of Texas

Diane Munns, Commissioner, Iowa Utilities Board, President, NARUC

Connie Murray, Commissioner, Missouri Public Service

Mike Oldak, Sr. Director, State Competitive & Regulatory Policies, Edison Electric Institute

Karen Smith, Commissioner, Maryland Public Service

Clinton A. Vince, Energy Advisor to the City of New Orleans, Managing Director, Sullivan & Worcester, LLP

Jay Vinson, Vice President & General Manager, Intergraph Corporation

Larry Vogt, Manager, Rates, Mississippi Power

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