EBC/NECA Energy Program
New Opportunities for Renewable Energy Projects
Recently enacted legislation in Massachusetts expands the incentives to produce electricity
through the development and financing of wind, hydro, solar and anaerobic digestion
projects. How have current incentives been changed and expanded? Which projects will
qualify and what will the process be to get qualification? What will these projects mean for
future market prices for renewable power? What other new policies will be studied in the year
ahead and what might these policies mean for renewable energy development?
For this joint Environmental Business Council (EBC) and Northeast Energy and Commerce
Association (NECA) event, former DOER Commissioner David O’Connor will moderate
presentations by key legislators, project developers, utility managers and financiers who will
describe the details of this new legislation and offer their assessments of its impact on the
regional marketplace for renewable energy.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
ML Strategies, LLC
One Financial Center
Boston
Draft AGENDA
7:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Welcome
Daniel K. Moon, President, EBC
Bennet Heart, Esq., NECA Renewable Energy Committee Chair
Introduction David O'Connor, Program Chair
Senior Vice President for Energy and Clean Technology
ML Strategies, LLC
8:15 a.m.
Legislative Perspectives
 Senator Benjamin Downing, Co-Chair,
Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy
 Representative John Keenan Co-Chair
Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy
9:00 a.m.
Long-term Utility Power Contracts
 Carol Grant, Senior Vice President, External Affairs, First Wind
 James G. Daly, Vice President, Energy Supply, Northeast Utilities
 Russ Landon, Head of Clean Technology, KeyBanc Capital Markets
 Peter Rothstein, President, New England Clean Energy Council
10:00 a.m.
Networking Break
10:30 a.m.
Net-Metering and Distributed Generation
 Dan Berwick, Director of Policy and Business Development, Borrego
Solar Systems
 Tim Roughan, Director of Distributed Resources, National Grid
 Wayne Davis, Vice President, Harvest Power
11:15 a.m.
Studies of Potential New Policies:
 Matthew Wolfe, Principle, Madera Energy, Inc.
 Stephen Conant, Senior Vice President for Project Development
Anbaric Transmission
 Dwayne Breger, Dir., Renewable and Alternative Energy Development
Mass Division of Energy Resources
12:00 noon Adjourn
PROGRAM CHAIR
David O'Connor, Senior Vice President for Energy and Clean Technology
ML Strategies
One Financial Center Boston, MA 02111
(617) 348-4400 // doconnor@mlstrategies.com
David O’Connor is the Senior Vice President for Energy and Clean Technology at ML
Strategies, a subsidiary of the law firm Mintz Levin. He helps energy companies understand
and influence emerging public policies to improve their competitive position. Most recently,
he served as the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources where,
among other things, he was responsible for designing and directing the state’s energy
efficiency and renewable energy programs.
Prior to this, David founded and directed the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution, the
first state agency in the U.S. created to resolve non-labor, public and environmental disputes.
He also served as chief mediator for the New England Environmental Mediation Center, the
first regional environmental mediation service in the United States. David received his
undergraduate degree from Middlebury College in Vermont and his Masters in Public
Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
SPEAKERS
Dan Berwick, Director of Policy and Business Development
Borrego Solar Systems, Inc.
205 Industrial Avenue East, Lowell, MA 01852
(978) 513-2630 // dberwick@borregosolar.com
Dwayne Breger, Manager, Renewable Energy and Climate Change Group Manager
MA Department of Energy Resources
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 1020, Boston, MA 02114
(617) 626-7327 // dwayne.breger@state.ma.us
Stephen Conant, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Anbaric Transmission, Inc.
401 Edgewater Place, Suite 640, Wakefield, MA 01880
(781) 683-0708 // sconant@anbaricpower.com
James G. Daly, Vice President, Energy Supply
Northeast Utilities
One NSTAR Way, NE 220, Westwood, MA 02090
(781) 441-8258 // james.daly@nstar.com
James Daly is Vice President Energy Supply at Northeast Utilities (NU). In this capacity, he
is responsible for managing power and natural gas supplies to some 3.0 million electric and
0.5 million natural gas customers in CT, MA and NH. Mr. Daly is also responsible for
renewable energy and fuel supplies to circa 1,200 MW of power generation as well as
representing NU in various industry forums charged with the development of efficient and
competitive energy markets.
He has 32 years of experience in the energy industry in Europe, Asia and North America. He
has held executive level positions in consulting, competitive and regulated energy
companies. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland with a Bachelor Degree in
Electric Engineering and from University College Dublin with a Masters in Industrial
Engineering.
Wayne Davis, Vice President, Incentives & Regulatory Affairs
Harvest Power, Inc.
221 Crescent Street, Waltham, MA 02453
(781) 314-9504 // Cell: (978) 505-2710 // wdavid@harvestpower.com
Senator Benjamin Downing
Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy
Massachusetts State Senate
State House, Room 413-F, Boston, MA 02133
(617) 722-1625 // benjamin.downing@masenate.gov
Carol Grant, Director of Regulatory Affairs
First Wind, Inc.
179 Lincoln Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02111
(617) 960-2888 // cgrant@firstwind.com
Bennet Heart, Partner
Noble & Wickersham LLP
1280 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 491-9820 .// bh@noblewickersham.com
Representative John D. Keenan
Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy
Massachusetts House of Representatives, 7th Essex District
State House, Room 473-B, Boston, MA 02133-1054
(617) 722-2120 // John.Keenan@mahouse.gov
Russell W. Landon, Managing Director, Clean Technology Group
KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.
225 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110
(617) 385-6221 // russell.w.landon@keybanccm.com
Peter Rothstein, President
New England Clean Energy Council
125 Summer Street, Suite 1020, Boston, MA 02110
(617) 500-9991 // prothstein@cleanenergycouncil.org
Tim Roughan, Director of Distributed Resources
National Grid
40 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA 02451
(781) 907-1628 // timothy.roughan@us.ngrid.com
Matthew Wolfe, Principal
Madera Energy, Inc.
89 Thorndike Street, Cambridge, MA 02141
(617) 401-2125 // MWolfe@MaderaEnergy.com