meetings
Dates: Ongoing
Location:
Online, offered through the Stanford Center for Professional Development at Stanford University. Access is given for 60 days upon enrollment.
Description:
Building energy efficiency (BEE) is critical to developing affordable, reliable, and low-carbon energy systems. However, understanding the basics of BEE can be challenging, given its deeply intertwined technology, policy, and finance dimensions. In this online course, through lecture and expert discussions, explore the fundamentals and complexities of BEE, from the perspectives of technology, policy and finance. Beyond the fundamentals, the course delves deeply into the challenges and new frontiers of BEE expansion. Course is about 6.5 hours of taped content, with exercises, glossary, and slides included.
Contact: Anita Wood, Program Manager, SCPD, anitawood@stanford.edu
April 18-20, 2022
Location: UW-Madison: Pyle Center, Madison, WI (Hybrid option also available)
Description:
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of regional transmission organizations in North America. Attendees will develop a solid understanding of:
The course will end with a discussion of current issues facing RTOs today and tomorrow.
Contact: Lori Sakk, sakk@wisc.edu
April 10-13, 2022
Location: Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Description:
Through a series of panel discussions, commissioners and industry leaders discuss issues facing the utility and telecommunication industries. The conference is very conducive to audience participation. Registrations is limited.
Contact: Jeanette Walter, (575) 649-4812, jeawalte@nmsu.edu
May 16-20, 2022 - Hybrid Event
Location: Sheraton Uptown in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Online Live via Zoom
Description:
This course is specifically designed to capture the nuances of the electric industry. The course includes the following topics:
This course will give attendees practical analytical skills needed to understand the topics covered as well as an integrated framework showing how they fit together. Through a combination of lectures, discussion, and integrated problems, this courses provides the analytical skills necessary to be more productive in the changing utility environment. Attendees with less than one year’s experience in the regulatory arena and anyone wishing to obtain a basic understanding of the principles involved should attend one of the courses.
Contact: Cindy Blume, cblume@nmsu.edu
May 16-20, 2022 - Hybrid Event
Location: Sheraton Uptown in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Online Live via Zoom
Description:
This course specifically designed to capture the nuances of the natural gas local distribution (LDC) industry. The course includes the following topics:
This course will give attendees practical analytical skills needed to understand the topics covered as well as an integrated framework showing how they fit together. Through a combination of lectures, discussion, and integrated problems, this courses provides the analytical skills necessary to be more productive in the changing utility environment.
Attendees with less than one year’s experience in the regulatory arena and anyone wishing to obtain a basic understanding of the principles involved should attend one of the courses.
Contact: Cindy Blume, cblume@nmsu.edu
May 23 – 25, 2022
Location:
Charles F. Knight Executive Education & Conference Center, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
Description:
The FRI Advanced Electric Pricing Seminar on Utility Rates and Pricing for the Future is a 15.25-hour seminar focused on the electric industry. Attendees will gain intensive exposure to content through presentations, discussions, case studies, and group exercises lead by experts from a unique cross section of utility executives, former regulators, academicians and consultants. The seminar will focus on the theory and application of electric pricing to address the transformation of the industry. It will examine, in-depth, the intricacies associated with the design and launch of new pricing programs. Registration begins early March 2022.
Contact: Cheryl Byrd, (573) 882-3800, byrdch@missouri.edu
June 6 – 9, 2022
Location: Memorial Student Unions at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Description:
FRI’s newest education program for utility and regulatory leaders. The Regulated Utilities Leadership Institute (RULI) is a four-day leadership development program for utility decision-makers and regulators to understand the unique business context of regulated utilities and how they differ from other investor-owned firms from a managerial perspective.
This program is designed for utility decision-makers, even if their responsibilities are not directly related to pricing, rate, and regulatory affairs; and for commission staff who seek a higher-level understanding of the firms they regulate. To ensure ample opportunity for in-depth discussion and maximum networking, attendance is limited.
Get more information and register at FRI Regulated Utilities Leadership Institute.
Contact: Cheryl Byrd, 573-882-3800, byrdch@missouri.edu
October 3-7, 2022
Location: UW-Madison: Pyle Center, Madison, WI (Hybrid option also available)
Description:
Since 1983, Energy Utility Basics has provided intensive training on the fundamental concepts critical to being conversant in today’s energy industry. Course content is updated yearly as technology, regulation and markets evolve.
Course Summary:
Energy Utility Basics is intended for anyone working in the energy industry, including public interest groups, utility employees, legislative and regulatory staff, state and local government personnel. This course is for energy professionals, both those new to the industry as well as those assuming new responsibilities, who want a better grasp of how all the technological, financial, and administrative pieces of the energy puzzle fit together.
Contact: Lori Sakk, sakk@wisc.edu
Oct 10-14, 2022 - Hybrid Event
Location: Sheraton Uptown in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Online Live via Zoom
Description:
This course is specifically designed to capture the nuances of the electric industry. The course includes the following topics:
This course will give attendees practical analytical skills needed to understand the topics covered as well as an integrated framework showing how they fit together. Through a combination of lectures, discussion, and integrated problems, this courses provides the analytical skills necessary to be more productive in the changing utility environment. Attendees with less than one year’s experience in the regulatory arena and anyone wishing to obtain a basic understanding of the principles involved should attend one of the courses.
Contact: Cindy Blume, cblume@nmsu.edu
May 15-19, 2023
Location: Sheraton Uptown in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description:
This course is specifically designed to capture the nuances of the electric industry.
Contact: Cindy Blume, cblume@nmsu.edu
Oct 16-20, 2023
Location: Sheraton Uptown in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description:
This course is specifically designed to capture the nuances of the electric industry.
Contact: Cindy Blume, cblume@nmsu.edu