Loeb & Loeb LLP is proud to sponsor the Platts 25th Annual Global Power Markets Conference, where partner Greg Blasi will be speaking on a panel entitled Round Table Discussion: Financing in a Post Recessionary Environment.

From the conference website:

Platts is pleased to announce that the 25th Annual Global Power Markets Conference will be held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas on April 11–13, 2010. Now celebrating its silver anniversary, Platts Global Power Markets Conference has been the gathering place for power industry leaders. The conference consistently provides an unparalleled platform for exploring the issues crucial to the development of electric power markets worldwide. Every year more than 600 key industry executives come to learn from industry innovators, exchange ideas and network with their peers.

Agenda

Sunday, April 11
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Pre-registration

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception
Hosted by: Winston & Strawn LLP

Monday, April 12
7:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
Hosted by: Siemens Financial Services

8:45 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Peter Maloney, Editor in Chief, Platts Global Power Report

9:00 a.m. Executive Round Table

• What does the power company of the next decade look like?
• How are you adjusting your strategy for possible GHG mitigation legislation?
• How will smart grid innovations affect power companies?
• Will electricity demand rebound and, if not, how will you adapt?
• Will carbon mitigation legislation make the power business more global?
• What are the prospects for power sector acquisitions?

Peter Maloney, Editor in Chief, Platts Global Power Report (Chair)
David Crane, President and Chief Executive Officer, NRG
Jack A. Fusco, President and Chief Executive Officer, Calpine
Michael G. Morris, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Electric Power
Zin Smati, President and CEO, GDF SUEZ Energy North America

10:30 a.m. Networking & Refreshment Break
Hosted by: RW Beck

11:00 a.m. Panel Session: Strategic Choices in a Carbon Constrained World

• How do you structure a power plant portfolio in a CO2 mitigated world?
• How sustainable is a surge in renewable generation?
• How dependent is a nuclear renaissance on federal loan guarantees?
• Best practices: Choices when BACT is not a fact

Todd Filsinger, Member of PA’s Management Group, PA Consulting Group (Chair)
Doyle Beneby, Senior Vice President, Exelon Power
The Hon. Joseph T. Kelliher, Executive Vice President Federal Regulatory Affairs, FPL Group, Inc.
Additional speakers to be announced

12:30 p.m. Luncheon & Keynote Address
Hosted by: Nodal Exchange & LCH.Clearnet

2:00 p.m. Panel Session: Resource Choices—Fuels for a Post-Carbon World

• What are the prospects for wind power after the cash grants expire?
• Will shale gas plays pan out?
• What is the long-term outlook for natural gas price volatility?
• Will a surge in gas-fired generation push up gas prices again?
• What are the prospects for solar power?

Jerry Bloom, Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP (Chair)
Paul J. Allen, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Environmental Officer, Constellation Energy
Marcus C. Rowland, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Chesapeake Energy Corporation
John Eber, Managing Director, JPMorgan Capital Corporation

3:30 p.m. Networking & Refreshment Break
Hosted by: RW Beck

4:00 p.m. Panel Session: Defining the Smart Grid—Alternative Generation and Generation Alternatives

• What is the smart grid?
• Will there be sufficient transmission capacity to handle a surge in renewable generation?
• Wheeling and dealing: where are the new transmission resources being built?
• What effect will energy efficiency measures have on electricity demand?
• Will storage replace or enhance generation?

James P. O'Brien, Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP (Chair)
Philip G. Harris, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tres Amigas, LLC
Michael Heyeck, Senior Vice President, Transmission, American Electric Power
Jim Greer, Senior Vice President, Asset Management and Engineering, Oncor
Brad Roberts, Executive Director, Electricity Storage Association

5:30–6:30 p.m. Global Power Markets Silver Anniversary Celebration
Hosted by: Wood Group

Tuesday, April 13
8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

9:00 Finance Keynote Address
Joe Esteves, Chief Financial Officer, LS Power

9:45 Round Table Discussion: Financing in a Post Recessionary Environment

• What is different about this recovery?
• What is the outlook for power sector M&A?
• What kind of deals are bankers looking for?
• What happens when stimulus funding ends?

Gregory J. Blasi, Partner, Loeb & Loeb LLP (Chair)
Joe Esteves, Chief Financial Officer, LS Power
Gisela Kroess, Director, Project & Commodity Finance, UniCredit Bank AG
Sean O'Donnell, Executive Director, Energy Team, J.P. Morgan
Jack Paris, Managing Director, Citigroup
Jonathan Silver, Executive Director, DOE Loan Guarantee Programs, U.S. Department of Energy

11:00 a.m. Networking & Refreshment Break
Hosted by: RW Beck

11:15 a.m. Panel Session: The Intersection of Carbon and Finance

• State of the market: where the carbon allowance market is today
• Using carbon markets to hedge generation
• The ins and outs of international offsets
• What can be learned from the EU experience?
• Building RECs into resource planning

Peter Maloney, Editor in Chief, Platts Global Power Report (Chair)
Mark Fulton, Managing Director, Global Head of Research, DB Climate Change Advisors, Deutsche Bank
Randall N. Lack, Chief Marketing Officer, Element Markets, LLC
Swami Venkataraman, Director, Standard & Poor's

12:30 p.m. Close of Conference