Provocateur:
Dr. Ronald Sutherland, CAEM Senior Scholar

Dr. Sutherland, author of CAEM’s groundbreaking study quantifying the benefits of competition in the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Regional Transmission Organization, will lead a wide-ranging discussion of the study and its results. The topics will include:

• What did CAEM’s study of Benefits to Consumers in PJM reveal?
• The upcoming Phase II of the study, addressing the impact of real-time pricing on demand-response and the geographic scope of PJM.

Ron Sutherland, working with an active group representing over 20 organizations and top energy economists, was the principal author of the CAEM-sponsored study, Estimating the Benefits From Restructuring Electricity Markets: An Application to the PJM Region. Sutherland, a PhD economist and CAEM Senior Scholar, has more than 20 years experience analyzing energy issues. He focuses on electricity and natural gas regulatory and restructuring issues. Sutherland is an independent consulting economist and Adjunct Professor of Law at the George Mason University, School of Law. Much of his career was spent with two DOE national laboratories: Los Alamos National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, where he assessed several regulatory and energy issues. He is a former senior economist for the American Petroleum Institute and economics professor with the University of Illinois