EEI Electric Rate Advanced Course
August 3 - 6, 2008
University of Wisconsin
Madison Fluno Center for Executive Education
Madison, WI
Register now for the EEI Electric Rate Advanced Course. This course is designed for experienced rate practitioners; both as a refresher on cost of service basics, and as a review of cutting-edge rate making trends and issues. The course will offer an opportunity for students to participate in fashioning regulatory strategies in a group situation.
Sunday, August 3 - Refresher Workshop - This optional pre-course workshop will give students an overview of costing and pricing concepts. It is designed for students who need a refresher on embedded cost of service studies, and basic rate design.
Monday, August 4 – Cost Allocation – Day 1 will start with the identification of teams and the description of student projects involving the development of regulatory strategies. Day 1 continues by walking through the allocation of costs to generation, transmission, and distribution functions; then focuses on the development of cost of service for stand-alone distribution services. The discussion includes hands-on numeric examples that allow students to practice methods of embedded cost analysis (functionalization, classification, allocation), and marginal cost analysis (the development of incremental and decremental costs). The first day concludes with a discussion of demand-side management trackers, decoupling mechanisms, and retail rate reform.
Tuesday, August 5 – Rate Design – Day 2 expands the discussion into rate design practices in the following four key areas: (1) Designing Efficient Rates – Design of demand-response rates and pricing risk management; (2) Cost of Capital – Current trends and issues involving cost of capital, including new risks not necessarily captured in traditional methods; (3) Customers – Customers perspectives on energy policy, rates, pricing, and the implications for business and regulatory strategies; and (4) Alternative Regulation – Alternatives to traditional cost of service regulation. Day 2 will end with students working in groups on their regulatory strategies.
Wednesday, August 6 – Summation – Day 3 focuses on the results of the regulatory strategy work groups. It concludes with a round-table discussion that encourages students to integrate information from the previous two and one-half days into a strategic perspective on rate making.
Dates
The EEI Electric Rate Advanced Course will run from Sunday, August 3 through Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Fluno Center for Executive Education in Madison, WI. The course is sponsored by, and developed in cooperation with, the Edison Electric Institute Rates and Regulatory Affairs Committee.
Registration Information
The registration fee for this course is $1,900, and includes all instruction, course materials, meals and receptions. (Note: dinner is not provided on Tuesday night so students can enjoy dinner out on the town.) Registration is limited to 35 attendees to assure optimum interaction between participants and the course leaders.
To register, go to: http://www.eei.org/meetings/nonav_2008-08-03-lm/index.htm and click on the register online link. If you have additional questions, do not hesitate to contact Elizabeth Stipnieks at estipnieks@eei.org.
You will need your EEI Member Net ID and Password to access the registration form.
Need your user name and password?
U.S. Shareholder-Owned Electric Company Members of EEI can obtain their user name and password information by visiting http://www.eei.org/pw (View membership list).
Continuing Education Credits
The course offers the following continuing education credits for students attending the pre-course workshop.
22 CLE Continuing Legal Education
2.2 CEU Continuing Education Units
22 CPE For Public Accountants
For those students not attending the pre-course workshop the credits are as follows:
19 CLE Continuing Legal Education
1.9 CEU Continuing Education Units
19 CPE For Public Accountants
Hotel Accommodations
A block of rooms has been reserved for us at the Fluno Center for Executive Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until June 18th. The rate is $139/night. To ensure the availability of a room, please make your reservations before June 18th by calling (877) 773-5866, or go on-line: www.fluno.com. Please mention you will be attending the EEI Electric Rate Advanced Course.
The Fluno Center is a short 15-minute taxi ride from the Dane County Regional Airport.
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