Financial Markets

Current Situation

• Utilities in the United States and the rest of the world are experiencing stock market and financial pressures.
• All utilities are capital intensive. They require constant financing from capital markets and private investors while liquidity restrictions abound.

EEI’s Experience

• 70 years of working with investment and merchant banks, ratings agencies, financial press, and private investors on industry and individual utility financial and investment issues.
• Ground-breaking initiatives to build and strengthen investor and market confidence in the electric utility sector.
• Pioneering work in helping utilities comply with Sarbanes-Oxley standards.

Products and Services

• International financial conferences attracting global utilities, analysts, bankers, rating agencies and writers.
• Members-only Wall Street briefings and presentations.
• State-of-the-art industry accounting issues training courses and member facilitation.
• Investor relations and confidence initiatives and programs.
• Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Energy trading, risk management, governance and financial disclosure forums.
• EEI Standardized Master Power Contracts.

Market Liberalization

Current Situation

• The United States has been undergoing market liberalization since 1978.
• The United States has 51 deregulation “laboratories” with a full range of market liberalization applications and experiences.
• EEI has tracked and been involved in every state and the federal deregulation effort.

EEI’s Experience

• EEI’s history gives it a unique, focused perspective on state and federal involvement in market liberalization. This insight helps EEI advance utility objectives and establish a level playing field for fair competition.
• Utilities in countries either involved in market liberalization or in the process of moving into the arena can rely on EEI’s experience.

Products and Services

• Demand response services.
• Expert advice on state & federal deregulation.
• Facilitation of utility and regulator dialogue.
• Rate design for evolving markets.
• Risk management for fuel procurement.
• Transition costs.
• Affiliate transactions.
• Market power.
• Forced divestiture.
• Interconnection to grid.

Utility Management

Current Situation

• Utility success in liberalized markets requires the ability to deliver low-cost electricity at the highest level of service in an increasingly competitive market environment.
• Utilities must identify and quickly adopt new and improved ways to operate more efficiently and cost-effectively.

EEI’s Experience

• EEI has worked with U.S. utilities in the full range of operations, management, marketing and power supply functions and responsibilities.
• Overseas utilities can learn from American utility experiences, failures, and successes.
• EEI plays a leading role in developing transmission and reliability strategies.

Products and Services

• Reliability and operational solutions for transmission, distribution and security requirements.
• Commercial operations expertise in customer service, demand response, procurement, alternative fueled vehicles, fleet management, trucking regulations, and telecommunications.
• National and large-accounts management.
• Retail market structure strategies for building codes, energy-efficiency standards, voluntary market transformation programs, and other activities that may impact retail markets.
• Analyses on the impact of new technologies, marketing programs, and regulations that can affect markets for energy sales and services.
• Environmental health programs.
• Customer service benchmarking standards.