UPCOMING EVENTS

SWEP EVENT — Banish Burnout: What It Looks Like and How to Fix It

Join the Society of Women Environmental Professionals, Massachusetts Chapter (SWEP-MA) for this online event with Dr. Margarita Gurri, CSP.

Burnout is real. Understand the brain science of stress so you can banish the emotional, physical, and behavioral symptoms of burnout, even when dealing with COVID, working from home, hybrid meetings, and a return to travel. Learn the mindsets, skills, and habits needed to work well, be happy, and be profitably productive.

Our speaker, Dr. Margarita Gurri, Ph.D, CSP, is a Misbehavior Expert, called Dr. Red Shoe. Dr. Red Shoe solves people problems—conflict, crisis, and ethical challenges—to bring out the best in everyone. She is the author of several books. For more information check her website DrRedShoe.com.

The presentation will be 5-6 PM, EST, with optional networking from 6-6:30 PM, EST.

Co-sponsored with the Connecticut Society for Women Environmental Professionals (SWEP-CT) and the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA).

Register through the SWEP WEBSITE.

Cost: NECA and SWEP Members – $5 | Non-Members – $20

Virtual Meeting

Hot Topics in Retail Markets: Current Challenges and Advancements 

2022 has been an eventful year for competitive suppliers, consumers and other industry stakeholders in the five restructured New England states and New York. Pro-competitive purchase of receivables and community choice aggregation regimes have finally been implemented in NH and RI, Maine has expanded its competitive supply rules to add protections for solicitations via door-to-door sales, and MA has implemented new transparency rules for licensing of suppliers and brokers. At the same time, MA DPU has sharply curtailed its work on adopting next generation improvements to retail markets regulations, CT PURA has stepped up its investigation and implementation of measures that would limit retail choice and assess historically large costs and sanctions on retail suppliers and the MA Senate went as far as to enact a bill that would have ended residential retail competition in the Commonwealth. This webinar will cover these and other recent retail markets developments and include a bonus deep dive discussion of the current status of and future prospects for MA’s one-of-a-kind Clean Peak Renewables Standard and other renewable portfolio standard developments across the Northeast.

MODERATOR:
Rob Munnelly, Shareholder, Davis Malm

PANELISTS:
Christopher Ercoli, President and CEO, Retail Energy Advancement League (REAL)
Gretchen Fuhr, Senior State Government Affairs Manager, Constellation; President, Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA)
Stephan Wollenburg, Senior Consultant, Sustainable Energy Advance (SEA)

COST:
Members $50 | Non-members $65 | Government $40 | Young Professionals $40 | Students Free

Environmental Justice Updates

(Co-Sponsored by Society of Women Environmental Professionals  Massachusetts Chapter)

SPEAKERS:
Tori Kim, Assistant Secretary/MEPA Director at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA)
Staci Rubin, Vice President, Environmental Justice, Conservation Law Foundation
Lysa Modica, Senior Air Quality Scientist, Tetra Tech

COST:
Members $50 | Non-members $65 | Government $40 | Young Professionals $40 | Students Free

2022 Legislative Update

WHEN: Tuesday, November 15 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm ET

WHERE: Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston (virtual option available)

MODERATOR: Molly Connors, Policy Analyst – Manager, New England Power Generators Association

PANELISTS:
Election Results: Neil Levesque, Executive Director , St. Anselm College New Hampshire Institute of Politics
Inflation Reduction Act: Shai Sahay, Counsel, Foley Hoag LLP

COST:
Members & Government $75 | Non-members $100 | Students $25 | Virtual Attendance $50

2022 Power Markets Conference

WHERE: Waltham Woods Conference Center, 860 Winter Street, Waltham, MA
WHEN: Monday, December 5

ISO-NE, like many other electricity markets around the world, is at a crossroads. There is near consensus that the status quo is not sustainable and market reforms are necessary. But there is disagreement among stakeholders, experts, and regulators on the best approach forward. To facilitate the search for a workable solution – the right path to be taken – NECA is proposing a frank and open discussion of the key issues facing the New England electricity market: the search for reliability and the goal of affordability. In addition, given the necessity of having customer cooperation and supplementing utility-scale resources with distributed energy resources to achieve policy goals of decarbonization, the last panel of the day will consider how the traditional delineation between wholesale and retail markets is shifting and perhaps fading. At the end of the day, we hope that we will be one step closer to having a roadmap and deciding what road to take.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Conference Co-Chairs:
David Fixler, Of Counsel, Greenberg Traurig
Julia Frayer, Managing Director, London Economics International

Heather Takle, CEO, PowerOptions

COST:
NECA Members $495 | Non-Members $550 | Government $265 | Young Professionals Members $270 | Young Professionals Non-Members $300 | Students $100 | Please contact the NECA office if you are interested in virtual attendance.
Prices increase by $25 on November 24 so register early!

Group rate hotel rooms are available at both the Hampton Inn Waltham and Embassy Suites Waltham. Limited shuttle service will be provided from each hotel to Waltham Woods.

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