Energy Policy: Above All, Do No Harm
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 | 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
About This Event
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Now that a new Congress has been sworn in, what's next on the horizon for energy policy? John Rowe, Exelon’s chairman and CEO, submits that modern energy policy should focus on long-term, economically rational solutions. Congress must allow market forces to work and embrace our country's abundant supply of domestic natural gas. This will allow the United States to transition to a clean-energy future--minimizing the burden on consumers, taxpayers, and the federal budget--and will position America to better compete in the world. At this AEI event, Rowe will deliver a keynote address describing an economic approach to energy policy for the 112th Congress.
Video of this event will be livestreamed online at http://www.american.com/watch/aei-livestream
Now that a new Congress has been sworn in, what's next on the horizon for energy policy? John Rowe, Exelon’s chairman and CEO, submits that modern energy policy should focus on long-term, economically rational solutions. Congress must allow market forces to work and embrace our country's abundant supply of domestic natural gas. This will allow the United States to transition to a clean-energy future--minimizing the burden on consumers, taxpayers, and the federal budget--and will position America to better compete in the world. At this AEI event, Rowe will deliver a keynote address describing an economic approach to energy policy for the 112th Congress.
Agenda
10:15 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
10:30
Introduction:
CHRISTOPHER DEMUTH, AEI
Speaker:
JOHN ROWE, Exelon Corporation
Question and Answer
11:30
Adjournment
Registration and Breakfast
10:30
Introduction:
CHRISTOPHER DEMUTH, AEI
Speaker:
JOHN ROWE, Exelon Corporation
Question and Answer
11:30
Adjournment
Event Contact Information
Hiwa Alaghebandian
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-5820
E-mail: hiwa.alaghebandian@aei.org
Media Contact Information
Veronique Rodman
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-4870
E-mail: VRodman@aei.org
Speaker biography
John W. Rowe is the chairman and CEO of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. Its retail affiliates serve 5.4 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and its generation affiliate operates the largest fleet of nuclear power plants in the nation. Mr. Rowe is the senior chief executive in the utility industry, having served in such positions since 1984. He has led Exelon since its formation in 2000 through the merger of PECO Energy and the parent of Commonwealth Edison. Mr. Rowe previously held CEO positions at the New England Electric System and Central Maine Power Company, served as general counsel of Consolidated Rail Corporation, and was a partner in the law firm of Isham, Lincoln & Beale. He is the past chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute and the Edison Electric Institute. He was also cochairman of the National Commission on Energy Policy and serves on the secretary of energy’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, a panel to provide recommendations on managing used nuclear fuel and waste. Mr. Rowe is the lead independent director of the Northern Trust Company and a member of the boards of directors of Sunoco and UChicago Argonne LLC. In both 2008 and 2009, Institutional Investor named Mr. Rowe the best electric-utility CEO in America
