Raab Associates presents the 119th New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable featuring Gina McCarthy and Curt Spalding from the EPA on October 29th, 2010. This roundtable will explore how the convergence of new environmental regulations from the U.S.EPA and New England states will impact the region’s electricity resource mix, and how we plan and operate the electricity grid.

To have the nation’s lead air regulator, Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. EPA, to describe the various new or under-development regulations, and offer her thoughts on how these regulations, together with existing federal and state (e.g., RGGI) regulations, could impact New England. Gina will be introduced by Curt Spalding, our new EPA Regional Administrator for New England.

Gina’s keynote address will be followed by a question and answer period, and then by a panel of expert discussants:

• Massachusetts DEP Commissioner Laurie Burt, who is also the current Chair of both the Ozone Transport Commission and the New England Governors’ Environment Committee, will kick-off the panel.
• ISO New England Chief Operating Officer Vamsi Chadalavada, will discuss how these regulations should be accounted for in the planning and operation of New England’s electric grid and its various markets.
• Pamela Faggert, Vice President and Chief Environmental Officer at Dominion, will discuss how the new regulations might impact Dominion’s and other resources in New England.
• Paul Hibbard, now Vice President at Analysis Group, will present a study that his firm, in collaboration with M.J. Bradley & Associates, recently completed for the Clean Energy Group on the impact that the new EPA air regulations could have on the electric fleet nationally.
New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable: EPA Perspective