Atlanta Chapter

The Atlanta Chapter of the United States Association for Energy Economics (AAEE) is committed to expanding the reach of energy information in both the private and public sectors of the Atlanta area. The Chapter focuses on current energy issues and research at the state, national, and international level. It provides an excellent forum to meet, network, and exchange ideas in the regional energy community.

Local programs are planned and will feature both local and national experts as speakers.

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Atlanta Officers President Chris M. Schlegel Manager, Risk Analysis Services Southern Company Services 30 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd., NW Atlanta, GA 30308 Phone: 404-506-0697 Fax: 404-506-0717 Email: cschlege@southernco.com Secretary Laura Speake Forecast Analyst Georgia Power Company 241 Ralph McGill Blvd Atlanta, GA 30308 Email: ldspeake@southernco.com Treasurer Jose Marroquin Director, Energy & Utilities Tata, North America 115 Perimeter Center Place - Suite 660 Atlanta GA, 30346 Cell: 678-313-0282 E-mail: marroquin@sovereignthought.com Past Events March 2006 Meeting "A new look at Solar's place in the energy space" When: Wednesday March 26th Where: Southern Company 30 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd. NW 10th floor ROOM 1008 Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm Speaker: Steven Nichols, Southern Company WHAT: The theme for this meeting is "Carbon constraints: How do they affect power company planning?" "Fleet planning" at a power company supports near-term capital investment decisions associated with the company's set of electricity generating units by looking long-term. Important current decisions involve both new plants and environmental retrofits at existing plants. New plant issues include What technology? What size? When? and Where? Retrofit issues include Which units? What technology? and When? Fleet planning addresses these questions by considering the long-term evolution of the generating fleet and the economic and regulatory environment in which it will operate. The many important uncertainties in this future economic environment include gas price, new nuclear capital cost and the stringency of any future control of CO2 emissions. The presentation will give a succinct tour of these issues, paying special attention to how CO2 uncertainty has substantially increased the analytical needs of the fleet planning process. WHO: The featured speaker is Dr. Charles Rossmann, Senior Research Economist at Southern Company WHEN: Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:30 to 1:30 - Lunch provided WHERE: Southern Company building, 30 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd NW (see directions below - it's a new address and often hard to find online...) Conference room 1510/1511 on the 15th executive floor Speaker: Dr. Charles Rossmann, Southern Company August 2007 Meeting The Atlanta Chapter of the USAEE is excited to announce that George Campbell of UtiliPoint International will be speaking at the first of this year's USAEE events. The topic is "Improving the Vertically Integrated Electric Business Model." A brief bio and abstract are included below. Please make George feel welcome and attend the meeting !! DATE & TIME: Thursday AUGUST 23, 2007, 11AM to 1PM EST Brief biography of the speaker, and the abstract: George Campbell George Campbell is President of G3 Power Consulting, LLC, and a member of UtiliPoint's new Performance-Driven Utility (PDU) Practice. He provides consulting and performance measurement services to improve wholesale electric market performance for Vertically Integrated Electric Utilities (VIEU). George Campbell has over thirty years of electric utility experience spanning Wholesale Power Marketing and Trading; Economic Dispatch of Retail Load and Generation Fleet; Electric Retail Access Markets; Bundled Retail Special Contract Pricing Negotiations; and Demand Response Programs. George holds a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from Castleton State College and an MBA from the University of New Hampshire. Abstract: Improving the Vertically Integrated Electric Business Model Vertically integrated electric utilities (VIEUs) in many regions have survived because they have some inherent economic advantages over the competitive model. However, the competitive model has best practices in fuel procurement, wholesale market-based retail pricing and economic dispatch that could bring additional efficiencies to VIEUs. This presentation outlines the best competitive market practices that are adaptable to the VIEU and regulatory obstacles that will have to be overcome to facilitate them. The presentation explains how Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) should evolve to attain a more competitive-like electric market design that achieves the highest attainable level of economic efficiency. It also describes the strengths and weaknesses of competitive procurement processes for new VIEU generation resources. In addition, the presentation describes the need for developing a set of VIEU Efficiency Principles that will allow the FERC to balance efficiency and the fostering of wholesale competition. May 2006 Meeting "Revisiting the value of forecasting in the energy industry." Meeting: USAEE Atlanta Chapter meeting Date: May 4, 2006 Location: Southern Company - 14th floor - conference room 1408 Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm (room reserved from 11:00am - 2:00pm) Speaker: Chris Schlegel, Southern Company

Atlanta Events USAEE Atlanta Chapter Spring Meeting Where: 30 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd, NW When: April 30, 2009 11am-1pm. Please join us for the Spring meeting of the Atlanta Chapter of the USAEE ! Price volatility and demand response are hot topics in all areas of the energy sector after the rollercoaster we saw in commodity prices this past year. We are excited to have Freddy Cardozo as our featured speaker on this topic for our upcoming meeting. To help us get the best possible attendance we have selected a range of dates for you to choose. Please use the voting buttons shown above to indicate your first choice, and also let us know in your reply if you cannot attend one or both of the remaining dates. Please respond by end of next week! We will send a follow up note to let you know exact date and location. Below is a brief summary of the topic and biography of our speaker. Demand response and Volatility in Natural Gas prices -- The effect of hurricanes and the Energy Commodity bubble -- The impact of the 2005 hurricanes Rita and Katrina in wholesale and retail natural gas market prices is examined, as well as their effect in short and long term demand in the Atlanta Gas Light service territory. A chronology of events is presented, including the production and pipeline system outages, the spike in wholesale prices, storage inventories, deregulated retail prices in Georgia, reliability concerns, and finally the 2008 energy commodity market peak and its abrupt fall. Freddy Cardozo -- Mr. Cardozo has over thirteen years of experience in the energy industry from both the regulated and deregulated competitive markets, the last four years at Gas South and Southern Company Gas. Mr. Cardozo is responsible for natural gas procurement, asset and portfolio risk management, providing cost structures for pricing and supply planning and forecasting. In this role, Mr. Cardozo testified before the Georgia Public Service Commission in the 2007-2010 Capacity Supply Plan. His background includes financial analysis, quantitative modeling and power system planning. Mr. Cardozo holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Asuncion, Paraguay and earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University as a Fulbright Scholar.