Next Generation 911 (NG911) is an IP- based network that will enable the public to send emergency communications in text, picture, video and voice file formats as well as other data communications to the public safety answering points (PSAPs). The goal is the deployment of cost-effective data transmissions, and facilitation of efficient, inexpensive management and response by PSAPs that will reduce excessive call hold times and allow for handling multi-jurisdictional emergencies, disaster situations, or jurisdictionally midirected contacts. An overview of the structure and components of NG911 will be presented followed by a ciritcal discussion of key policy, governance, funding and operational issues implicated in the transition and during the after state or area-wide NG911 implementation.

Moderator	Jeff Richter, Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Panelists	Brian Fontes - Executive Director, National Emergency Number Association David Furth - Deputy Chief Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau, FCC Brian Mahern - Senior Utility Analyst, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission Matt Gerst - Director, State Regulatory & External Affairs, CTIA Lynn Stang - Assistant General Counsel, Sr. Director, Regulatory & Government Affairs, Intrado, Inc.

Pro-Energy Efficiency Regulators (PEER) program proposal

Kateri Callahan - President, Alliance To Save Energy

- 9th New Commissioner Regulatory Orientation (Feb. 25-26, 2013)

- 2013 Summer Internships (NARUC & CFEBA)

Erin Hammel - Director, International Programs, NARUC

Part 1 will focus on joining an RTO/ISO or EIM - What are the factors that should be taken into account? There are lots of decisions that will need to be made by both the regulators and the utilities and this segment will focus on the factors, both benefits and hurdles, which influenced recent decisions to join a centrally organized market. Discussion will take into account logical connections, the cost/benefit analysis used, the cost of joining and the continued regulatory oversight.

Speakers

Hon. Alaina Burtenshaw - Chairman, Nevada Hon. Jim Gardner - Vice Chairman, Kentucky Hon. Darrell Hanson - Commissioner, Iowa Thomas Husted - Chief Executive Officer, Valley Electric Cooperative Diane Munns - Vice President, Regulatory Relations and Energy Efficiency, MidAmerican Energy Company Andrea Kelly - Senior Vice President, PacifiCorp Mike Risan - Senior Vice President for Transmission, Basin Electric Power Co-Operative Don Mosier - Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, East Kentucky Power Cooperative

This panel will explore the benefits of accurate boundary data and how that data can be used to implement reforms mandated by the FCC's USF/ICC Transformation Order. The options incumbent local exchange carriers are facing for submitting certified boundary data in ESRI shape file format to the FCC pursuant to the Wireline Competition Bureau Chief's order DA 12-1777 will also be addressed.

Moderator	Gene Hand, Nebraska Public Service Commission
Panelists	Chelsea Fallon - Assistant Division Chief in the Industry Analysis & Technology Division, Wireline Competition Bureau Jeff Lanning - VP Federal Regulatory Affairs, CenturyLink Keith Oliver - Senior Vice President Corporate Operations, Home Telephone Company, Inc. Jennifer McKee - Vice President & General Counsel, NCTA

* Plans for Summer Meeting in Denver, Colorado (Panel Topics, etc.)
* Honorary Resolutions Discussion
* Planning for 2013 Regional Meetings
* Long Term Goals for UMA - what do we want to achieve in 2013?

Hon. Harold Williams - UMA Chairman and Commissioner, Maryland

Joint session with Committee on Telecommunications
There have been many changes in the world of education from Kindergarten through High School and well beyond. The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) initiative has gained a high profile on a national level. Broadband has an increasing role in education as well. The representatives of the Telecommunications industry on this panel will share with us how the industry is partnering with education in areas such as the STEM initiative.

Moderator	Hon. Jack Betkoski - Commissioner, Connecticut
Panelists	Kristin Townsend - Program Manager for Education, Verizon Foundation Scott Blake Harris - General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Neustar Dr. Elizabeth Hoover - Executive Director of Technology Services, Alexandria Schools Karima Zedan - Director of Internet Essentials, Comcast Rebecca Hanson - Acting Director, Public-Private Initiatives, FCC

Reference to IRC Strategic Plan: Goal 3 (The stated goals of our international programs are achieved)

Andrew Melnykovych - Staff Subcommittee Chair

Reference to IRC Strategic Plan: Goal 3 (The stated goals of our international programs are achieved)

Erin Hammel - Director, International Programs, NARUC

NARUC 2012 Annual Award for Promoting International Cooperation among Utility Regulators and Development of Professional Regulation in Honor of Terry Barnich - Award Ceremony

Presented to Hon. David Boyd (MN)

Reference to IRC Strategic Plan: Goal 4 (The international utility regulatory community is increasingly inter-connected and finds concrete responses to common challenges and opportunities)
* The South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy (SARI/Energy), the role of regional energy markets and cross–border trading
* Rules for Renewables: Aligning Roles and Incentives for Renewable Energy
* Nexant's Africa Infrastructure Program
* Presentation by State Grid Corporation of China

Moderator	Hon. David Armstrong - Chairman, Kentucky
Panelists	Craig Glazer - VP, Federal Government Policy, PJM Interconnections Dr. Mark A. Jamison - Director, Public Utility Research Center, University of Florida John Works - Senior Oil & Gas Project Finance Advisor, Nexant, Inc. Kai Xie - President, US Representative Office, State Grid Corporation of China

Market forces and new environmental rules are resulting in a "dash-to-gas," perhaps at the expense of our nation's coal generation fleet. In efforts to comply with federal mandates, utilities are either retrofitting coal plans or turning to natural gas. This panel will discuss what these changes mean for rates, resource diversity, sustainability, and environmental regulations. Panelists will explore the role of competitive market forces along with the push from environmental regulations. The shale gas "revolution" has provided consumers with lower rates, and offered utilities the ability to lock in prices over the longer term. But how sustainable is the North American supply of natural gas, and will volatility return to the market over the lives of these generation assets. Meanwhile, can coal utilities rely on the future prospect of carbon capture and sequestration to provide a secure position for coal in the future generation mix? This C-level panel will provide their views on these questions.

Moderator	Hon. Colette Honorable - Commissioner, Arkansas
Panelists	David Carroll - President, CEO, Gas Technology Institute Mark McCullough - Executive VP of Generation, AEP

Part 1: The ability of the RD&D projects to get past the "valley of death" between the last demo unit and full mass production is critical to the introduction of new energy efficiency technologies. Representatives from the Electric Power Research Institute and the Gas Technology Institute will talk about their emerging technology programs, which have designed pathways to help achieve this goal.

Part 2: Dominion Virginia Power has a statutory obligation to reduce retail energy consumption 10 percent below 2006 levels by 2022. Dominion evaluated a number of energy conservation programs and focused on a novel Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) program that leverages Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to implement an adaptive voltage control using a practical statistical method to directly meter customer energy savings and providing circuit level performance verification. Dominion's CVR program is targeted at energy, demand, fuel and carbon reduction benefits. Using AMI technology along with a practical statistical measuring technique, voltage control provides a scalable method of implementing high value energy conservation, a simple direct method to validate the energy saved, and easily integrates into the existing planning process to identify circuit improvements that continue to increase voltage performance. The end result is a process to plan, manage, and validate efficient management of voltage to the customer, measure the efficiency improvement in the distribution system circuit-by-circuit, and enable a granular level of circuit planning that continues to improve circuit efficiency while lowering costs to the customer.

Moderator	Honorable Jeanne Fox - Commissioner, New Jersey
Panelists	Hank Courtright - Senior Vice President, Electric Power Research Institute Ryan Kerr - Program Manager, Gas Technology Institute Phillip Powell - Director, Grid Innovation, Dominion Voltage Inc.

Consumer engagement technology has evolved rapidly over the past five years. It has become much more than the monthly bill insert. And it is digital, potentially providing customers with more than the traditional utility avenues for engaging in energy efficiency and demand response.

The panel will provide an update on the latest cutting edge consumer engagement innovations in technology; identify and describe some of the products being used today; give an update on challenges to getting the products into mainstream use; and identify potential avenues to overcoming barriers to these customer empowering technology advancements. The panel will consist of potentially a White House Staffer providing an overview of some of the leading new technologies, a customer engagement service provider discussing regulatory and other barriers in placing these new tools in the hands of customers, a utility provider discussing its concerns regarding making access to data available, and a consumer advocate representative discussing privacy and other issues.

The discussion is designed to be educational and will be interactive allowing plenty of time for questions and comments from the audience.

Moderator	Janine Migden-Ostrander - Principal, Regulatory Assistance Program
Panelists	Sandra Mattavous-Frye - People's Counsel, Office of the People's Counsel Charles Dickerson - Vice President Performance Management & Support Services, Pepco Holdings, Inc. Justin Segall - Founder and EVP, Simple Energy Eric Lightner - Director, Federal Smart Grid Task Force, U.S. Department of Energy

* Introductions and Reports
* Washington Report - Chris Mele, NARUC
* Grants and Research Report - Miles Keogh, NARUC
* NRRI Report - Tom Stanton, NRRI
* EZ Mapping Tool - Donna Brunner, Argonne National Laboratories
* Bloomberg New Energy Finance Clean Energy Fact Book - Ethan Zindler, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Lisa Jacobson, Business Council for Sustainable Energy
* Introducing the Heat is Power Association - Tobyn Anderson, Government Affairs Consultant
* Ripe for Retirement - Steve Frenkel, Union of Concerned Scientists

Demand Response National Forum Report - David Kathan, FERC

* Resolutions

Network Reliability and Storm Recovery - What did we Learn from Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy and other recent natural disasters provided a sobering reminder of the fragility of the communications network. Despite technological improvements and new services, such as wireless and VoIP, the networks remain vulnerable to natural and potentially manmade disasters. Telecom providers' failure to provide the States comprehensive outage information may hamper restoration coordination efforts and possibly endanger public safety. What can we, as State regulators, do to improve network resiliency and post storm recovery? Are more robust back up power requirements, such as longer duration back up power, battery/generator location rules and generator fuel diversity, necessary? Should the public have access to data on the carrier specific network resiliency? Should carriers be required to establish and provide to States and power companies a prioritized list of network offices and cell sites for power restoration? Attendees will discuss these questions and discuss what we have learned from Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts.

Moderator	Hon. Maureen Harris - Commissioner, New York
Panelists	Hon. Catherine Sandoval - Commissioner, California Hon. Gregg Sayre - Commissioner, New York Adam Folk - Vice President of Government Affairs, Cablevision Rory Whelan - Regional VP Government Relations, Northeast, Time Warner Cable Tom Maguire - Senior Vice President of National Operations Support, Verizon Chris Nurse - Regional Vice President, AT&T

Joint session with Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment
Combined heat and power (CHP) is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from a single fuel source such as natural gas, biomass, biogas, coal, waste heat, or oil. CHP provides onsite generation of electrical and mechanical power and useful thermal energy in a single, integrated system. Waste Heat to Power (WHP) is process of capturing heat discarded by an existing industrial process and using that heat to generate power In both cases, heat that is normally wasted is captured as useful energy, which avoids the losses and associated emissions that would otherwise be incurred from separate generation of heat and power. Distributed Generation (DG) resources in such systems can offer some of the greatest benefits. It is anticipated that CHP and WHP will continue to attract major investments for reliability and environmental attributes. Clean DG, whether using natural gas or other clean energy fuel sources, can provide environmental benefits regionally, in reducing criteria pollutants that otherwise would be emitted by grid-generated electricity, and globally, inreducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to these financial and environmental benefits, CHP and WHP DG systems can also significantly improve the reliability of power supply for data centers and other baseload operations such as industrial users, hospitals etc. This panel of experts will explore the benefits of CHP and WHP as distributed generation resources and the important role they will play as the States continue to retire less environmentally friendly power generation sources.

Moderator	Timothy Alan Simon - Chairman Emeritus, California
Panelists	Jerry Bloom - Partner & Energy Practice Chair, Winston & Strawn LLP Travis Dauwalter - Senior Sales Manager, GE Gas Engines William Wolf - Manager of Industrial & Commerical Conservation Programs, Baltimore Gas & Electric Commissioner Emeritus Cheryl Roberto

Joint session with Committees on Electricity, Energy Resources and Environment, Gas and Water
The main focus of this installment of the Joint Forum is the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) thermal power plant cooling water intake structures rule under section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Forum will focus on the impact Section 316(b) and related regulations may have on power producers, ratepayers and the environment. The discussion that follows will utilize a regional focus to facilitate a discussion to include an assessment of the impact on reliability and cost. The Forum will include representatives from: the EPA, a Regional Transmission Operator, a vertically integrated utility, and two or more State respondents.

Moderators

Hon. Cheryl LaFleur and Hon. Philip Moeller - Commissioners, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Hon. Philip Jones - Commissioner, Washington Hon. David Ziegner - Commissioner, Indiana

Panelists

Karen Edson - Vice President of Policy, CA-ISO Bryan Hannegan - VP, Environment and Renewable Energy, Electric Power Research Institute Mark Nelson - Director - Generation Planning and Strategy, Southern California Edison Julie Hewitt - Economist and Chief, Economic & Environmental Assessment Branch Engineering and Analysis Division Office of Science & Technology, Office of Water , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Commissioner Emeritus Timothy Alan Simon

How are State utility commissions responding to the cybersecurity concerns? Hear from two regulators about what is going on in their State. In this session, Chairman Jeffrey Goltz of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission and Commissioner Pamela A. Witmer of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission will provide an update on their activities and how they are engaging with their regulated utilities. These States have held workshops run by NARUC staff on cyber issues and are now pursuing ideas generated from these helpful sessions. Presented in a case study format, this discussion will provide insight into what kinds of questions to expect from State regulators as they address cybersecurity.

Hon. Jeffrey Goltz - Commissioner, Washington Hon. Pamela A. Witmer - Commissioner, Pennsylvania