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Energy Central, the leading resource in the global power industry for
news, events, databases, insight and analysis, announced today that T.
Boone Pickens will be a keynote speaker at the first annual EnergyBiz
Leadership Forum (http://www.energybizforum.com).
The event, to be held at the Renaissance Mayflower in Washington D.C. on
March 8-10, 2009, will bring together legislators, energy consumer
representatives, utilities, regulators, vendors and financiers for an
unprecedented discussion and analysis of energy production, consumption,
and policy in the United States.
As well known for his PickensPlan as he is for his wealth of experience
in the oil and gas and investment industries, Pickens is a compelling
force in contemporary dialogue on the present and future of domestic
energy. An advocate of energy independence and stability for the U.S.,
he has often spoken about the relationship of energy to the economy,
environment and national security.
"We are pleased to welcome Mr. Pickens to what we feel is a crucial
discussion of key issues related to energy policy today," says Mark
Johnson, Energy Central vice president of content and publisher of
EnergyBiz magazine. "As a country and as an industry, we are
confronting unprecedented times and this forum will provide the most
objective and strategic view of the unique drivers shaping energy. By
bringing together all the involved parties, including luminaries such as
Mr. Pickens, the Leadership Forum will facilitate the development of
real, workable solutions that will secure our country's future."
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Richard Kelly, President and CEO, Xcel Energy
Kevin Burke, President and CEO, Con Edison
Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy
Initiatives,
Google
Steven Specker, Chairman, Electric Power Research
Institute
(EPRI)
Jacques Besnainou, President, AREVA, Inc.; President
and CEO,
AREVA NC Inc.
Tom Kuhn, President, Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
Michael Mudd, CEO, FutureGen Alliance
Michael Chesser, Chairman and CEO, Great Plains Energy;
Chairman, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Mark Crisson, CEO, American Public Power Association (APPA)
Ray Beavers, General Manager and CEO, United Cooperative
Services, Texas
Marc Spitzer, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC)
Fred Butler, New Jersey Regulatory Commissioner, Incoming
President, National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissions (NARUC)
Dr. John Anderson, President, Electricity Consumers
Resource
Council
Kim Saylors-Laster, Vice President, Energy, Wal-Mart
Stores Inc.
Rep. Bart Gordon, US Representative, 6th District
Tennessee,
United States Congress
Barry Worthington, Executive Director, United States
Energy
Association
David Springe, President, National Association of State
Utility
Consumer Advocates, Consumer Counsel of the Citizens'
Utility Ratepayer Board of Kansas
Steve Winn, CEO, Nuclear Innovation North America
Energy Central is joining with media partner USA Today to present the
EnergyBiz Leadership Forum. The Forum invites all utilities, regulatory
representatives, legislators, policymakers, financiers, technology
suppliers and other business professionals responsible for future energy
policy creation, design, implementation and rollout to attend this
precedent-setting discussion. See the
EnergyBiz Leadership Forum Web site for details, including a full
schedule of speakers and topics for the event.
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