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CAEM's mission is to help the industry
and policymakers better understand the value of competitive
energy markets and to develop and pool intellectual
capital for market-oriented solutions to the challenges
faced by restructured markets. As a nonprofit organization,
CAEM funds its activities, which include education and
outreach, studies and analysis, and special events,
through tax-deductible contributions. The suggested
contribution tiers are structured to pool industry resources
and recognize budgetary constraints and desired levels
of participation from any company. Click
here for more information or download a prospectus
here.
CAEM Challenges
Cato Institute Paper
On Two Fronts
Recovering From
Setbacks in Electric Competition Policy
CAEM CEO Ken Malloy discusses what happened
and how to get electricity industry restructuring back on track.
Click to access the article in HTML
or PDF
(100k).
CAEM in Salon.com
Default Provider Study Draws Interest
CAEM's study of default service and providers of last resort-issues that are key to the success or failure of retail restructuring plans-has drawn interest from the public and private sectors as well as the media.
CAEM CEO Ken Malloy followed up our seminar
on the default provider study with a presentation to the Pennsylvania
Public Utility Commission. You can click
here to see the invitation from the PA PUC and click here
to view the slides from the presentation (PDF).
Restructuring Today devoted its lead
story on April 8 to the Default Provider study. Click
here to see "Think Tank Rethinks Default Provider Paradigm."
CAEM held a very successful seminar on April
7 to discuss the findings of the default provider study. Click
here for details on the seminar. We followed the seminar
up with a successful audio conference on May 11.
Congressmen Cite
CAEM PJM Report
CAEM in the Press:
288 Articles and Counting
Since our inception, CAEM's expertise been
cited in 288 articles in publications ranging from daily newspapers
to industry journals. We have compiled these articles as CAEM
in the Press: 1999 to 2003 and we invite you to take a look
at what we have accomplished. Click
here to download CAEM in the Press at no charge.
California Recall:
Competition Revival?
CAEM applauds the potential turnaround in
electric policy in California and candidate Arnold Schwarznegger's
statement that "As Governor, I will ... make markets
work." Click
here for more information.
BLACKOUT 2003:
CAEM Predicted It
Post-Blackout:
Don't Blame Deregulation
Instead, says CAEM CEO Ken Malloy, look to
DELEGURATION as the culprit. What is deleguration? Well, it
sounds like deregulation, it looks like deregulation, and
it might even on occasion seem like deregulation. But it's
not deregulation. Click
here to read more.
CAEM Grid Enhancement Forum: Focus on Technology
In 2002, our Grid Enhancement Forum looked
at ways to enhance the Nation's transmission grid through
the use of various new technologies. Click
here for more information.
CAEM in the Media
CAEM's views on the Northeast blackout of
2003 were sought and reported by a wide variety of media.
Click here for a
summary and to view the articles.
RED Index Featured
Reuters Gets CAEM Views on Restructuring Recent Past, Future
IDEAS Board Meets To Discuss Issues,
Set New Projects
The IDEAS Foundation is CAEM's think tank
arm, and the Board of Advisors makes policy and project recommendations
to the Center. Read
the meeting summary here.
CAEM Responds to
Ontario Price Caps
CAEM has published a paper countering Ontario
Premier Ernie Eves' drastic Nine-Point Plan in response to the
province's current competitive electricity regime. If enacted,
the plan will result in both long- and short-term harm to Ontario's
economy and adopt policies perilously close to those which undermined
the California electricity markets. Read
the CAEM Canada press release (HTML) and access the report (PDF)
here.
Business Week
Seeks CAEM Views
CAEM CEO Ken Malloy was quoted in a Business
Week article on the effect of recent FERC actions on electricity
industry restructuring. Click
here for the article (HTML) or download the PDF (200k) here.
Re-Regulate Texas?
CAEM Responds
CAEM strongly disagrees with a recent opinion
piece published in the Houston Chronicle suggesting that Texas
pull the plug on electricity restructuring. Click
here for the whole story.
RED Index
Board of Advisors
CAEM's RED Index Board of Advisors is evaluating the methodology used to develop our RED Index and making recommendations for future revisions and studies. For more information, please contact CAEM CEO Ken Malloy.
Customer Care Quality Standards Report Released
Council for Understanding Energy Markets
Given the crises of the last several years, energy market issues now transcend the trade press and technical discussion groups to involve the national media and opinion leaders outside the business-as-usual players. CAEM is organizing a group whose focus is to provide objective, unbiased information on key issues relating to natural gas and electric markets, regulation and restructuring to the 1000 most influential energy opinion makers in the United States, as well as to the interested public at large. The Council for Understanding Energy Markets will be made up of 50 organizations, about evenly divided between public-sector/public-interest and corporate representatives. For a copy of the prospectus for the Council, contact Ken Malloy, CAEM CEO.
Minimum Customer Care Standards Working Group
CAEM has partnered with Navigant Consulting to bring together a number of senior executives representing IOUs, marketers, outsourcing firms and vendors to analyze and make recommendations on minimum customer care standards in the utility industry. This effort is an extension of CAEM's work in Phase I of the Customer Care Certification Program (C3P). CAEM is accepting nominations of other executives to join the working group. For a copy of the prospectus, contact Jamie Wimberly, CAEM President.
The RED Index is CAEM's comprehensive index benchmarking movement toward retail energy choice across the United States, Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand. The fourth edition finds that electricity deregulation in the United States has stalled and that utilities are experimenting with "virtual customer choice."
How To Support Competitive Markets
Do you need:
Knowledge of markets moving to competition?
Cutting-edge research and analysis?
Access to consensus-building forums?
A network of thought leaders?
Information on technology interactivity?
If so, CAEM's Friends is for you!
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 CAEM
Anounces "Gas War Room" Project
CAEM proposes to develop a rapid-response public-interest effort
to thwart efforts that would impede the progress made on natural
gas markets and is curently organizing an advisory committee
to assist in funding and conducting a preliminary analysis.
Click here
for more information.
Study Shows Market-Based Reliability Solutions Can Save Consumers Billions
The study concludes that market-based approaches
to improving reliability - including market-based demand response
initiatives, distributed energy, and moving towards an energy-only
market (with limited or no extra capacity costs fixed for reliability)
would more closely link consumer preferences and consumption levels
with costs. Click here
for more information and to download the report at no charge.
CAEM Alternative Dispute Resolution Project About To Start
CAEM believes that more effective use of Alternative
Dispute Resolution can enhance competitive energy markets and
is seeking participants for a study of the issue that will be
starting in the next few weeks. Click
here for more information.
Virtual Choice Project
CAEM views virtual choice as an effective transition mechanism in states that have not restructured their energy markets, and will be hosting a forum to discuss options and implementation strategies. For more information, send an e-mail to Gary Clouser.
Advisory Board Sought for International Market Comparison of Energy Reforms
CAEM and the Australian-based Institute for Public
Affairs are co-sponsoring a report comparing energy reforms in
the natural gas and electric industries in the United States,
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. CAEM is forming an advisory
board for this project from which it will seek analytical and
financial support. Click here for more information.
Join CAEM's Contact List for a New Distributed Energy Project
CAEM has received a grant from the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory (NREL) to investigate the impact of distribution
utility rate designs and tariff provisions on the adoption of
distributed energy resources. This project is certain to provide
much useful information on the topic. Take this opportunity to
receive updates and provide feedback as the work progresses by
joining the contact list for the project. Click
here for more more information.
Benefits of Competition in the Mid-Atlantic (PJM) Region
Dr. Ron Sutherland, a CAEM Associate Scholar,
has authored a major study on the benefits of competition in the
PJM region with the active assistance of more than 20 leaders
and economists in the industry. The study is available to the
public free of charge. Click here for
details on the report.
CAEM conducted a highly interactive workshop on
the Benefits of Competition in the Mid-Atlantic (PJM) Region on
November 13 in Washington DC. Click
here for details on the workshop.
Infrastructure Forum Transmission Survey Results
To the 230-plus stakeholders who participated
in CAEM's survey on issues related to electric transmission congestion
and network investments, we say "thank you." Results
of the survey will be distributed to regulators and policymakers
through our Energy Infrastructure Forum. Click
here for more information and to obtain a copy of this report
free of charge.
Report Focuses on Consumer Impacts
A report just issued by the Centre for Applied
Business Research in Energy and the Environment at the University
of Alberta provides an industry executive's perspective on the
deregulation of electricity, with particular focus on the impact
on residential customers. Click here for
details.
Infrastructure Forum White Paper Released
CAEM's Energy Infrastructure Forum is pleased
to release a white paper prepared by Tom Lord, President of Volatility
Managers, LLC. Electricity Regulation as an Exercise in Real Option
Management offers insightful analysis on how markets treat regulation
for investment purposes and offers a number of recommendations
on how to increase liquidity for new energy infrastructure. Click
here to obtain a copy of this report free of charge.
Final Report of Customer Care Certification Program Released
CAEM brought more than 25 senior executives together
to explore the potential for creating standards of customer service
and operations in the utility sector and to implement those standards
through a certification program. We are pleased to offer the the
final report of Phase I of that effort to the public free of charge.
Click here
for access to the report.
Grid Enhancement Forum Final Report Released
The Grid
Enhancement Forum investigated opportunities for enhancing
the Nation's electric transmission grid through the use of various
new technologies. The Final Report presents the need to enhance
the transmission grid, factors that affect deployment of enhancements,
and recommendations to mitigate hindrances and encourage use of
new technologies. An appendix reviews available technologies.
CAEM is pleased to make this report available free of charge.
Just click on the link above.
DISCO of the Future Project Final Report Released
The DISCO
of the Future Forum was a year-long effort to examine and
make recommendations on the future of gas and electric distribution
companies. CAEM is pleased to make the Final Report available
free of charge. Also available: The Role of the Default Provider
in Restructured Energy Markets and Distribution Utility Outsourcing.
Click here
to obtain any of these reports.
Other Areas of Interest
Federal Trade Commission
The report, "Competition and Consumer Protection Perspectives on Electric Power Regulatory Reform: Focus on Retail Competition," was published by the FTC staff in September 2001. Many of CAEM's review comments were incorporated in the final version. Click here to read the FTC press release and download the report.
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