Please save the date for NEM's Fall Leadership Roundtable. The meeting will take place October 28-29, 2008, and will be hosted by IDT Energy at their offices located at 520 Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey. NYPSC Chairman Garry Brown, NYPSC Commissioner Robert Curry, NJBPU Commissioner Nicholas Asselta and NYPSC Staff are confirmed to participate. Eric Matheson, Energy Advisor to Pennsylvania PUC Chairman Cawley, is confirmed to attend. Delaware State Senator Harris McDowell will also attend. Angelina LaRose, Office of Oil and Gas/Energy Information Administration, will also participate. A Revised Draft Agenda is available at this hotlink. Please register at this hotlink. Special room rates have been arranged at the Hampton Inn Suites River Walk Hotel in Harrison, NJ. Hotel accommodations at the preferred $119.00 rate are being coordinated by IDT. Please call (973) 438-4531 to arrange your hotel reservation.

NEM's Winter Executive Committee Meeting will be held at Infinite Energy/Intelligent Energy headquarters at 7001 SW 24th Avenue in Gainesville, Florida. The meeting will take place January 20-21, 2009. Please register at this hotlink. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center at 1714 SW 34th Street, Gainesville, Florida at a rate of $139 per night. Contact 352-371-3600 for reservations.

NEM's 12th Annual Global Energy Forum & Membership Meeting will be held April 28 & 29, 2009. The meeting will be held at the Embassy Suites Washington D.C. - Convention Center located at 900 10th Street, NW, Washington, DC. Please register at this hotlink. A block of rooms has been reserved for NEM members at the rate of $279 per night. Contact 202-719-1421 for reservations.

The National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) is pleased to announce that UGI Energy Services, Inc. (UGIES) has joined the Association. UGIES, which currently serves over 11,000 commercial, institutional and industrial facilities, markets natural gas behind over 30 utilities in its 8 state footprint, which includes Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as in the District of Columbia. UGIES, which owns generation assets, also sells electricity in the PJM market area, as well as oil and propane. UGIES also provides asset management services for interstate pipeline and storage capacity and owns and operates a number of natural gas peaking facilities, including an LNG plant located in eastern Pennsylvania. UGIES d/b/a GASMARK and POWERMARK will be represented within NEM by Senior Business Development Manager, Jodi Larison, as well as by Matt Dutzman, Vice President of Business Development and Cheryl Fuhs, Director Small Commercial.

Revisions to EIA's natural gas data collection program, including EIA-910 - the Monthly Natural Gas Marketer Survey, were published in the Federal Register this week.

Earlier this year, EIA had proposed to revise EIA-910 to require LDC-level reporting instead of the current state-level reporting and also proposed to require reporting in Mcf, rather than the current option of reporting in Mcf or therms. In NEM comments and a subsequent member conference call with EIA, we urged them not to adopt these changes.

EIA had proposed the change to LDC-level reporting to address the discrepancy between utilities reporting on EIA-857 of volumes transported on account of marketers and marketers reporting of volumes on EIA-910. In our comments we explained the discrepancy may not be resolved by changing EIA-910 to LDC-level reporting because of many factors such as: 1) the reporting entities use of billing versus usage data when they report, 2) likelihood that marketers individual reporting would not lead to the sum reported by utilities; 3) utility reporting may be more precise because they have service classification information that marketers do not have access to; and 4) marketers and utilities may internally use a different date at which a customer is counted as having migrated.

In the revised version of EIA-910 just published for comment, EIA adopted those suggestions essentially retaining the format of EIA-910 currently in use (except to exclude reporting for Massachusetts) to keep the state-level reporting format and allow reporting in therms or Mcf. Comments on the revision are due October 29, 2008. The full texts of the Federal Register Notice and Revised Proposed EIA-910 are available on the NEM Website.