NEM’s Fall Leadership Roundtable Meeting was held this week in Albany, NY. Many thanks to Matt Picardi of Shell Energy North America for hosting this meeting. Thanks also to all of the members and prospective members that attended this outstanding event. We were honored to have been joined in the discussions by:

NYS Assistant Secretary of Energy, Kimberly Harriman;
New York State Senator Aubertine and his Chief of Staff, Lee Willbanks;
New York State Senator Betty Little;
New York State Assemblyman William Barclay;
Chairman, NYPSC, Garry Brown;
NY State Dept. of Public Service, LuAnn Scherer;
NY State Dept. of Public Service, Fran Hart;
NY State Dept. of Public Service, Marty Insogna; and
NYISO - Robert Pike

January 2010 Executive Committee Meeting - NEM’s Annual Winter Executive Committee Policy and Planning Meeting will be held January 19 & 20, 2010, at the headquarters of South Carolina Research Authority in Charleston, South Carolina. NEM’s room rate has been secured at $129.00 per room per night at the Hilton Garden Inn Charleston Airport, 5265 International Blvd., N. Charleston, SC 29418. The Executive Committee sets the course for NEM’s advocacy in the coming year at this meeting. Many thanks to Bill Mahoney and South Carolina Research Authority for the generous offer to host this meeting.

FERC has proposed to adopt as Commission rules certain business practice standards adopted by NAESB pertaining to the categorization of various demand response products and services and the related measurement and verification of these products in wholesale electric energy markets. In summary, “[t]he NAESB Phase I M&V Standards include 40 definitions and 31 business practice standards. The definitions identify basic product categories, i.e., energy service, capacity service, reserve service and regulation service. They identify the measurement and verification characteristics of demand response products and services offered in organized wholesale electricity markets, such as reduction deadlines, advance notification instructions, telemetry accuracy, and communication protocols. The business practice standards address the major operational categories associated with demand response.” Comments on the proposal are due thirty days after publication in the Federal Register. The full text of the NOPR is available on the NEM Website.