FERC Chair Wellinghoff to Keynote at PLMA Conference

Friday, January 25, 2013

The Peak Load Management Alliance (PLMA) today announced that The Honorable Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will be a keynote presenter at PLMA’s Spring Conference set for April 24 and 25, 2013 in Austin, Texas. "Demand Response Markets, Technologies & Practitioners’ Outlook” is the event theme to focus on regulatory and policy updates from FERC, NERC and ERCOT, and explore innovative approaches to demand response programs, price and rate response, regional regulatory issues, legal challenges, and technologies. Session topics may include: ERCOT Policy Panel; Texas Utility Case Studies; Public Power, Electric Cooperative and Generation & Transmission Association Perspective; Demand Response and Distributed Generation; Roles of Retail Marketers and the A,B,C Network in Demand Response; Open Automated Demand Response Standard Update; and International Market Outlook.