Carbon Plan (9:00am - 10:00am)

The Carbon Plan update panel will discuss and explore North Carolina's final carbon plan and its implications for the state and the Southeast. The panel will also look ahead to the first update of the plan and examine how North Carolina's carbon plan may affect other states.

Speakers:
Will Scott, Director, Climate & Clean Energy Southeast
Warren Hicks, Staff Attorney, Public Staff – North Carolina Utilities Commission
Nadia Luhr, Staff Attorney, Public Staff – North Carolina Utilities Commission
Ben Smith, Counsel, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Benjamin L. Snowden, Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP

View from the Bench (10:15am - 11:15am)

The View from the Bench panel consists of Utility Commissioners across the southeast providing their perspectives about the changing energy landscape in the southeast and what emerging topics they are learning about in the energy sector that most interest them. What are you learning about that excites you? What do you think will be important in 5 years’ time, 10 years’ time?

Speakers:
M. Gray Styers, Jr., Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP
Commissioner Karen Kemerait, North Carolina Utilities Commission
Commissioner ToNola Brown-Bland, North Carolina Utilities Commission

Results of the SC RTO Study (1:30pm - 2:30pm)

The results are in! This panel will cover the recent work conducted under the Electricity Market Reform Measures Study Committee Joint Resolution passed by the South Carolina General Assembly in 2020 and implications for South Carolina and other states considering similar studies.

Speakers:
John Burns, General Counsel, Carolinas Clean Energy Business Association
Weston Adams, Partner, Nelson Mullins
R. Taylor Speer, Counsel, Fox Rothschild LLP

Please note there is a cost to attend. CLE credit available.