Past Conferences

2021

• The Climate and Equitable Jobs Act: What's in it and How do we Implement it?
• The Role of Low Carbon Fuels and Decarbonization 

2019

• Increasing Renewables and Competition in a Digital Age

2018

• Infrastructure Upgrades, Consumer Benefits and Capacity Payments 
• Energy Policy Design: How Energy Policies are Creating New Ideas & Alternative Products

2017

• Emerging Challenges for the Public Utility Industry: Data Access, Energy Storage, Source Water Development, and Challenges with Baseload

• New Legislation on Future Energy Jobs, Lead & Water Pollutants, and Federal Policies

2016

• The Environmentally Concerned, Budget Conscious, Technically Savvy Public Utility
• The Past, Present, and Future of Utility Regulation

2015

• Energy in Illinois and the Clean Power Plan
• The Utility of the Future!

2014

• Innovation, Conservation, and Customer Participation, Thursday, October 23, 2014
• The Math of Energy:  Adding Shale Gas, Subtracting Load, and Balancing the Environment, Thursday, April 17, 2014

2013

• The Costs and Benefits of Keeping Utilities Modern * October 30, 2013
• Utility Regulation:  The Good, the Bad and the Efficient * April 18, 2013

2012

• Perspectives on the Future of Regulatory Policy * October 25, 2012
• EPA Policy, Retail Choice and Hydro-Fracturing:  Innovation in Regulation

2011

• Economic Impacts from Updating Our Infrastructure * October 20, 2011
• Jurisdictional Forum Shopping:  Ripples in the Stream * April 21, 2011

2010

• Linking Supply with Changing Demand * October 14, 2010
• An Assessment of Energy Markets in the Midwest * April 29, 2010

2009

• The Calm Before the Storm * December 10, 2009
• Energy, Environmental Policy and the Recession: Impacts of Proposed Federal Policies * April 30, 2009

2008

• Responding to Increasing Costs of Electricity and Natural Gas December 10, 2008 Springfield, IL
• Increasing Longer-Term Stability in Energy Markets * May 1, 2008

2007

• Transitioning From Frozen Rates To Competitive Prices for Electricity * November 1, 2007
• Transforming the Electricity Market * May 10, 2007

2006

• Moving Toward Greater Reliance on Wholesale Energy Markets * November 30, 2006
• Assessing the Potential for Demand Response Programs * May 12, 2006

2005

• Ensuring Adequate Energy Supplies in a Volatile Environment Springfield, IL December 1, 2005
• Introduction to Rate Cases and Rate Design, July 14-15, 2005, Chicago, IL
• Public Policy Challenges in the Competitive Energy Marketplace, May 19, 2005, Springfield, IL
• Illinios Telecommunications Act Rewrite: Issues and Answers, April 4, 2005, Pallatine, IL

2004

• Beyond 2006: Making Competition Work

2003

• Electricity Market Restructuring in Illinois: What Next?, December 10, 2003
• Green Energy and Brown Fields: Energy and the Environment

2002

• Energy Markets at the Crossroads
• Illinois Energy Policy for the 21st Century

2001

• Energy Markets in Turmoil May 17, 2001, Springfield, IL

2000

• Distributed Resources and Competitive Energy Markets in Illinois, May 18, 2000, Springfield, IL

1999

• Unbundling of Electric Metering and Billing in Illinois, Dec. 9, 1999, Springfield, IL

1998

• The Future of Competitive Power Markets in Illinois, Nov. 19, 1998, Springfield, IL
• Implementing Electric Retail Choice in Illinois, May 15, 1998, Springfield, IL
• Bringing Retail Choice to Small Gas Customers in Illinois, February 20, 1998, Springfield, IL

1997

• Implementing Electric Retail Access in Illinois, September 5,1997 Springfield, IL