Southern States Energy Board 57th Anniversary Post-Meeting Summary

Date: September 24 – 26, 2017
Location: Francis Marion Hotel
Charleston, South Carolina

Meeting Program
Archived Livestreams
Photos

Resolutions

2017 Adopted Resolutions Packet

• Improving Energy Infrastructure Federal Permitting Efficiency
• Reforming the New Source Review Modification Program
• Modernizing and Enhancing Energy Infrastructure
• Protecting the Nation’s Electric Power Grid from Cyber and Physical Security Threats
• Supporting Advancement of a National Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-level Radioactive Waste
• Encouraging Completion of a Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina
• Encouraging Resource Conservation, Preservation and Recovery of Coal Combustion Products
• Enhancing Electric Grid Stability and Incentivizing Carbon Emissions Reduction Through Improved Efficiency Base Load Coal Units
• Concerning the Cost Allocation of Grid-Stability Transmission Projects
• Prioritizing Construction of the Appalachian Storage Hub
• Prioritizing State Mineral Property and Conservation Law Principles as They Apply to Federal Incentives that Advance Investment in Carbon Capture and Enhanced Oil Recovery
• Expressing Opposition to the Dilution of States’ Rights in the Context of Hydropower Relicensing Under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act
• Providing Support to Southern States Energy Board Member Jurisdictions in the Aftermath of Hurricane Disasters

Presentations

• Coal Combustion Products and Rare Earth Elements
  Danny Gray, Executive Vice President
  Charah, Inc.
• Electric Market & Environmental Regulatory Update
  Mike Nasi, Partner
  Jackson Walker LLP
• Aftermath of Harvey and Irma: Oil Industry Perspective
  Tom Parker, Director
  Arkansas Petroleum Council/API Southern Region
• Potential Economic Impacts of Chemical and Plastics Manufacturing in Appalachia
  Rudy Underwood, VP State Affairs and Political Mobilization
  American Chemistry Council
• Update on the Federal CCR Rule
  Hahnah Williams, Senior Associate
  Troutman Sanders LLP
• Energy & Environmental Policy Leadership in the States
  Sen. Eddie Joe Williams, Arkansas
• Utility Panel Discussion
  Mark C. McCullough, Executive Vice President – Generation
  American Electric Power
• New Challenges Facing U.S. Utilities
  John Raftery, GM of Renewable Program Services
  SCANA
• Hydropower Policies in the Southern Region
  Linda Church Ciocci, Executive Director
  National Hydropower Association
• Maryland’s Approach to Offshore Wind – Lessons Learned
  Mary Beth Tung, Director
  Maryland Energy Administration
• The Future of Nuclear Power
  Nils Breckenridge, Regional Sales Manager
  NuScale Power
• Natural Gas Pipeline Infrastructure for Market Expansion: Regulatory and Political Landscape
  Catherine Little, Partner
  Troutman Sanders
• The Nation’s Coal Fleet
  Paul Bailey, President and CEO
  American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
• World’s Largest Carbon Capture System: Innovation at Commerical Scale
  David Greeson, VP of Development
  NRG Energy, Petra Nova
• Modernizing the Grid
  Kent Fonvielle, Executive Director – South Region
  Midcontinent Independent System Operator

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