Electricity Dialogue
Upcoming Dialogues
Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on The West's Evolving Energy Landscape: Where We Are, How We Got Here
Thursday, December 3 - Friday, December 4, 2026 (Park City, UT)
Details forthcoming.
For additional information please contact clbe@law.northwestern.edu.
Spring 2027 Northwestern Electricity Dialogue
Thursday, April 15 - Friday, April 16, 2027 (Chicago, IL )
Details forthcoming.
For additional information please contact clbe@law.northwestern.edu.
Summer 2027 Northwestern Electricity Dialogue
Thursday, June 24 - Friday, June 25, 2027 (Chicago, IL )
Details forthcoming.
For additional information please contact clbe@law.northwestern.edu.
Winter 2027 Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on Western-State Focussed Issues
Thursday, December 2 - Friday, December 3, 2027 (Park City, UT)
Details forthcoming.
For additional information please contact clbe@law.northwestern.edu.
Past Dialogues
Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on Unlocking the Grid: Customers, Capital, and the Future at the Edge
Monday, June 29 -Tuesday, June 30, 2026 (Chicago, IL)
Agenda and Attendee List (pdf)
Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on Load, Generation, and Transmission: Planning in a Time of Uncertainty
Monday, April 13 -Tuesday, April 14, 2026 (Chicago, IL)
Agenda and Attendee List (pdf)
Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on The Resilient West: Managing the Many Electricity Challenges
Thursday, December 4-Friday, December 5, 2025 (Park City, Utah)
Agenda and Attendee List (pdf)
Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on How Can Regulators Use Energy Markets to Achieve Affordability and Reliability
Tuesday, July 8-Wednesday, July 9, 2025 (Chicago, IL)
Agenda and Attendee List (pdf)
Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on Changing Load and Changing Resources: Maintaining Reliability in an Era of Surging Load Growth
Monday, April 14-Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (Chicago, IL)
Agenda and Attendee List (pdf)
Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on “Reliability, Planning, and Emerging Markets in the Western U.S."
Thursday December 5-Friday, December 6, 2024 (Park City, Utah)
Agenda and Attendee List (pdf)
Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on “The State-RTO Partnership: Policies, Markets, Reliability, and the Energy Transition"
Monday, April 22-Tuesday, April 23, 2024 (Chicago, IL)
Agenda and Attendee List (pdf)
Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on “Resilience, Reliability, and Regionality in the Western Interconnect: Bringing It Altogether"
Thursday November 30-Friday, December 1, 2023 (Park City, Utah)
Agenda and Attendee List (pdf)
Northwestern Electricity Dialogue on “Harmonizing the Gas and Electric Industries: Weather, Markets, and Reliability"
Thursday, October 5-Friday, October 6, 2023
Agenda and Participant List (pdf)
Background Materials
- North American Energy Standards Board - Gas Electric Harmonization Forum Report (July 28, 2023)
- Susan F. Tierney Keynote Address: “Harmonizing the Gas and Electric Industries: Why It Matters” (presentation slides)
Electricity Dialogue on The Energy Transition: What Does it Mean and How Is It Going?
Monday, May 8-Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Agenda and Participant List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue on Electricity System Adaptation: Solving the Issues of the West
Thursday December 1-Friday, December 2, 2022 (Park City, Utah)
Electricity Dialogue on The Transitioning Electricity System: Resiliency, Reliability, and Renewables
Monday, April 25-Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Gas and Power Price Spikes: Understanding the Trend and Protecting Consumers
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Resource Adequacy, Decarbonization, and Reliability: Making It Happen in the West
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Multi-Value Transmission Projects and Lessons for Transmission Planning
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Background Materials
7th Circ. Pauses Federal Suit Over Wis. Transmission Line
October 21, 2021 (Law360)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Aligning the Natural Gas and Electricity Industries: Infrastructure and Business Practices
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Biden Energy Plan at 100 Days: A Look Back and a Glance Forward
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Opening Remarks: “You can’t tell the Players Without a Program: Overview of Biden Administration Appointments and Legislation” (Presentation Slides)
Kevin Gunn, Principal, Paladin Energy Strategies
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Cars, Chargers, and Customers: Electric Utilities and EVs
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Delivering 100% Carbon-Free Energy: Options & Issues
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Transmission Planning: Preparing the Grid to do Everything
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Innovation & Customer Choice in Retail Energy Markets
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Background Materials
Leveraging Competitive Markets to Unlock the True Value of AMI
Michael P. Kagan, Senior Vice President, Concentric Advisors
The Future of Electricity Retailing and How We Get There
Frank A. Wolak, Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD); Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Department of Economics at Stanford University
Ian H. Hardman, Research Associate, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD), Stanford University
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Resource Adequacy in the West: Evolution and Growth in a Period of Transition
Friday, December 11, 2020
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Electricity Regulation in a Post-Election World
Friday, November 13, 2020
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Resiliency and Evolving Electricity Systems I
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - Resiliency and Evolving Electricity Systems II
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Agenda and Registration List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - The COVID-19 Pandemic and Utilities: Customer Hardship & Economic Recovery
August 4, 2020
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - "Can FERC’s Markets and State Clean Energy Policies Work Together?"
June 30, 2020
Background Materials
Can FERC’s Markets and State Clean Energy Policies Work Together?
David Boyd, AESL Consulting; former MISO VP, Government and Regulatory Affairs and member of the MN PUC from 2007 to 2015. The contents and thoughts of this paper are his alone.
Electricity Dialogue Webinar - "Pipes & Wires: Getting Energy Infrastructure Development 'Right' in a Fast-Changing World"
June 23, 2020
Electricity Dialogue on Transitioning West: Evolution of Wholesale Markets, Renewables Integration, and Transmission Planning
December 5-6, 2019 (Park City, Utah)
AGENDA (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue at Northwestern - Energy and Capacity: Transitions?
May 6-7, 2019 (Chicago, IL)
Agenda and Participant List (pdf)
Wholesale Markets, States, and Renewables: DG, DER & EVs in the West
November 29-30, 2018 (Park City, Utah)
Agenda and Participant List (pdf)
Background Materials
Session Three
Electricity Dialogue on Managing the Present While Preparing for the Future
Monday, May 7, 2018 - Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Agenda and Participant List (pdf)
Electricity Dialogue on MISO Grid 2033: Preparing for the Future
Wednesday, November 29-Thursday, November 30, 2017 (St. Louis, MO)
Agenda and Participant List (pdf)
Background Materials
MISO Grid 2033: Preparing for the Transmission Grid of the Future
LSU Center for Energy Studies White Paper
2017
Monday, May 1, 2017 - Tuesday, May 2, 2017
The electricity industry in the central portion of the United States is different from other regions of the country. It is less restructured, has more vertically-integrated, rate-regulated utilities; is more rural with longer transmission lines; its big cities are not the megalopolises of the coasts; use more wind and coal; are laced by MISO, SPP & PJM RTO seams; with vibrant economies yet large aging heavy industries. These differences mean that the forces reshaping the industry (low natural gas prices, declining renewable costs, Clean Power Plan, customer empowerment, advancing technologies, declining load) are national their affects are local and regional.
It is with this in mind that the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law is once again pleased to host the Electricity Dialogue at Northwestern, on May 1-2 (noon-to-noon) at its Chicago Campus (located near Chicago's Magnificent Mile). Like previous Dialogues, this Electricity Dialogue at Northwestern unites a select group of regulators, policymakers, industry representatives, NGOs, and academic experts from the center of the country to participate in substantive, challenging and thought-provoking conversations on the issues reshaping the region's electricity landscape.
The Dialogue will feature a Keynote Address by Tony Clark, Senior Advisor, Wilkinson, Barker & Knauer and Former FERC Commissioner.
Topics will include:
- An RTO Perspective: Reliability and the Challenges with Integrating RE, DG, DER’s and NG
- Planning Distribution System Investments Given DER Growth
- Energy Infrastructure: Making Sure We Have What We Need When and Where We Need it to Assure Reliability, Security, & Resiliency 24/7/365
- Customer Focused Solutions Regarding Distribution – How Can All Players Participate?
For additional information on this event, please email the Searle Center at searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu.
2017 Sponsors
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law thanks the following for serving as sponsors:
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2016
Monday, April 25, 2016 - Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The electricity industry in the central portion of the United States is different from other regions of the country. It is less restructured, has more vertically-integrated, rate-regulated utilities; is more rural with longer transmission lines; its big cities are not the megalopolises of the coasts; use more wind and coal; are laced by MISO, SPP & PJM RTO seams; with vibrant economies yet large aging heavy industries. These differences mean that the forces reshaping the industry (low natural gas prices, declining renewable costs, Clean Power Plan, customer empowerment, advancing technologies, declining load) are national their affects are local and regional.
It is with this in mind that the Searle Center at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law is once again pleased to host the Third annual Electricity Dialogue at Northwestern, on April 25-26 (noon-to-noon) at its Chicago Campus (located near Chicago's Magnificent Mile). Like previous Dialogues, this Electricity Dialogue at Northwestern unites a select group of regulators, policymakers, industry representatives, NGOs, and academic experts from the center of the country to participate in substantive, challenging and thought-provoking conversations on the issues reshaping the region's electricity landscape.
Dialogue topics will include:
- Job Creation, Economic Development, Technological Innovations and the "Gas-Electricity Intersect."
- How are customers' electricity expectations changing and how can regulators and utilities best meet those expectations? How can the midcontinent states unlock the economic potential of technologies like energy storage, energy efficiency, demand response, and renewable energy?
- What does the US EPA's Clean Power Plan it mean for the midcontinent region? How can, will & should the states and region? How will new technologies fit?
- Does cost-of-service, rate regulation survive the twenty-first century challenges of decarbonization and environmental compliance, renewables integration, consumer-empowering new technologies, and evolving wholesale markets? Or is a new regulatory compact necessary based on a new utility business model?
The Electricity Dialogue at Northwestern promises to be provocative, interactive discussions that deepen understanding of the Region's distinctive and unique strengths, weaknesses, and future vision, challenging our thinking and opening up vistas of new ideas.
2016 Sponsors
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law thanks the following for serving as sponsors:
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