David Owens, 2004 September 29

Item — cassette: 12

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Michael K. Young introduces David Owens who is the Executive Vice President of Business Operations for the Edison Electric Institute (EEI).

Owens describes the state of the nation's electrical power grid. He talks about the debate on how to ensure that consumers get low cost, reliable electricity. This argument that is generally torn between increasing competition in the electric system or providing electricity through vertically integrated utilities. He gives various ways of addressing the challenge and concentrates on three areas: the need for an energy infrastructure, tension between the government Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the states, and potential solutions for constructing the energy infrastructure. Finally, there is a question and answer period at the end.

Speakers: David Owens; introduced by Gary Rasmussen, Michael K. Young (President of the University of Utah)

Dates

2004 September 29

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

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