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CRISIS... AND OPPORTUNITY?
Power Markets 2001

March 14-16 | Aladdin Hotel | Las Vegas


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February 5, 2001:
Crisis and Opportunity Update

If you're like the tens of thousand of others who read the Power Marketing 
Association's Daily Power Report, you know that our industry faces 
unprecedented crisis.? Blackouts, credit crunch, electric and gas price 
volatility, low hydro levels--? and we're not even near the summer.?? What 
are we facing??

Now is the time to think, to plan, to solve tomorrow's problems before they 
arise.?? Join us at the Power Marketing Association's Seventh Annual Spring 
Meeting: Power Markets 2001: CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITY:? MARCH 14-16, 2001, 
Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. 

Crisis grabs the attention, but the opportunities are almost palpable.? Just 
click on the headline for the full story at powermarketers.com:
 
 OTHER STATES WOO POWER-STARVED CALIFORNIA BUSINESSES?
Worrying about a drag on productivity from even a very brief electrical power 
interruption? New Mexico has exported its excess juice for 20 years.? Maybe 
you would sleep better in Richmond, Va., or Kansas City, Mo., or Phoenix or 
Salt Lake City, confident the power will be there for you when your business 
needs it.

INVESTMENT BANKS POWER UP THEIR ENERGY PRACTICES
Wall Street is hungry for the latest hot sector, now? that deals from 
Internet and telecommunications companies have slowed.... Large investment 
banks? such as Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, Merrill Lynch and Salomon Smith 
Barney Inc.--as well as? second-tier players like ING Barings and 
Rothschild--have been adding talent with expertise in? utilities and power 
companies. 

TIGHT WATER SUPPLY SEEN AS CALIFORNIA COPES WITH POWER CRISIS
They are predicting low Sierra Nevada snowpack levels throughout the summer 
in California, which depends heavily on runoff to power hydroelectric plants.
 
DUKE, WILLIAMS GAS PIPE? DEAL WILL FUEL 10,000 MW IN FL?
The $1.6 billion pipeline will bring natural gas for 10,000 megawatts of new 
power generation in Florida by 2007.

 WASHINGTON-OREGON CORRIDOR SEES 10,000 MW PLANNED?
Over 10,000 MW of new powerplants are being planned in the corridor between 
Boardman Oregon and Starbuck, WA.
 
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 CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITY: POWER MARKETS 2001
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Join the Power Marketing Association at its annual spring meeting to discuss 
the crises and opportunities which are, and will soon be facing us:? 

California: What's in store for the summer?

Gas PriceVolatility-- Why?

Power Market Risks-- Explained

The Texas Retail Market-- Will it Work?

New Powerplants-- How big is the opportunity?

Credit Risk-- How to manage it

Real Prices-- is the retail market ready to live without price caps?

Weather risk-- is it a market yet?

Transmission constraints-- are they completely intractable?

Provider of Last Resort-- is this a dumping ground?

The web-- what's real, what isn't-- beyond the hype.

Retail billing-- Getting it right before you're bankrupt

Powerline Telecom-- The next big thing?

Rolling Blackouts--? Peak shaving?

Distributed Generation-- Has the time come?

Coal- fuel of the future-- and present.? and

Where is your career going?-- What's hot today, tomorrow.


And don't miss our most popular seminar-- a must for the newbies out there, 
or if you just feel a need to step back and see where you fit into the big 
picture: 

FUNDAMENTALS OF POWER MARKETING 
March 14, 2001 

Click here to view?
 CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITY: POWER MARKETS 2001
http://www.pmaconference.com/0103Agendah.pdf