INVITES YOU TO A WASHINGTON, D.C. CONFERENCE

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008
8:30 AM–12:00 PM
(PROGRAM BEGINS AT 9:00 AM)

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
529 14TH STREET, NW
WASHINGTON, D.C.

THE CASE FOR A NATIONAL ELECTRIC GRID

KEYNOTE:
The Honorable George E. Pataki

Electricity, not oil, is the heart of the U.S. energy economy. Power plants consume as much raw energy as oil supplies to all cars, trucks, planes, homes, factories, offices, and chemical plants, and deliver much more useful power because they process the fuel much more efficiently. We generate electricity almost entirely with fuels other than oil and electricity is steadily displacing oil at the far end of the plug. Building out a high-voltage backbone grid to span the continent will lower the price of electricity and accelerate the electrification of major sectors of our economy still powered by oil.

Please join us as Manhattan Institute senior fellow Peter Huber presents his new Manhattan Institute report, “The Million- Volt Answer To Oil,” and a distinguished panel of experts discusses a crucial element of America's infrastructure.

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8:30-9:30 AM

Registration

9:00 AM–9:10 AM

Introductory Remarks

HOWARD HUSOCK, Vice President, Policy Research, Manhattan Institute

9:10 AM–9:50 AM

Report Presentation
THE MILLION-VOLT ANSWER TO OIL

PETER W. HUBER, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Author, The Bottomless Well
(Basic Books, 2005)

9:50 AM–11:00 AM

Panel Discussion
CREATING AN EFFICIENT NATIONAL ELECTRIC GRID: POTENTIAL AND CHALLENGES

ASHLEY BROWN, Executive Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group,
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
NICK BROWN, President and Chief Executive Officer, Southwest Power Pool
ASHOK GUPTA, Air and Energy Program Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
PHILIP D. MOELLER, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Committee
Moderator: STEVEN F. HAYWARD, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Keynote Address
THE HONORABLE GEORGE E. PATAKI

Introduction: MAX SCHULZ, Fellow, Center for Energy Policy and the Environment

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