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• Monday, June 18 1:3i}-2;30 p.m. What to Do When You Are Approached With a BUyOUt Offer Some investor-owned utilities and rural cooperatives are looking for expansion opportunities. This session will address lessons learned from utilities that have been approached with a buyout /sellout offer, including what to expect from the utility making the offer, how to respond, how to evaluate an offer to ensure you are maximizing the value of the utility to the community and how your community might avoid being ap- proached in the first place. Grid Evolution Meets Your Aging Infrastructure Aging infrastructure does not have to stop you from creating the advanced grid of the future. Learn about strategies utilities have adopted to update and integrate new technologies into their older electric systems. •~;&i~~t,~~j ~~"r~=~a~~i~~~ ~"iz3i~ri ~~r~c~ C;r~~t Allacation: Implementing Order Na. 1 Transmission providers regulated by the Federal Energy Regu- latory Commission must file by October 2012 to implement new or revamped regional transmission planning processes and cost allocation methods. This panel will report on activities in different regions of the country to meet these new FERC requirements and discuss how public power utilities and joint action agencies might be affected by them. Converting from Coal #o Natural Gas: Real World Experiences While a number of power plants have a history of fueling base- load generation with natural gas, the potential impact of new environmental regulations on coal may result in even more gas generation. American Municipal Power has recent experience with retiring an older coal-fired power plant, and replacing it with acombined-cycle natural gas facility. Speakers will ad- dress the issues many public power utilities are weighing as they consider whether to retrofit coal-fired power plants with mercury controls or to switch to combined cycle gas units. Plugging in the Customer: The Evc'slving Utility!C~tstamer Relationship The evolution and growing sophistication of applications of the electric grid, from the substation to the meter, and the meter to end-uses, may not be welcomed by all customers, yet they are necessary to improve reliability and efficiency to assure our electric system operates at maximum efficiency. Hear from retail providers, a large customer, and an equipment manu- facturer about steps each is taking to encourage customer acceptance and use of these new technologies. Energy Efficient streetlighting: eking the Most of the Savings More efficient streetlighting can mean significant savings to your utility and your community. This session will highlight how utilities are using energy efficient streetlighting to reduce costs, and how they are investing the savings into energy-efficiency programs for customers. Federal Legislative Update APPA legislative staff will provide an update on the priority issues facing public power in the second session of the 112th Congress. Wellness Programs that Work The health and well-being of your employees have a direct impact on their job performance, job satisfaction and benefits costs. Panelists will discuss steps for creating effective organi- zational wellness programs, whether you have a large budget or no budget at all. Utility Accounting Rules 101 The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) sets accounting rules and provides guidance that all public power utilities must follow. This high-level session for utility execu- tives and policymakers will provide an introduction to how the GASB's rule-making process works, and will offer a glimpse into some of the challenges your utility may encounter-and the potential impact these changes may have on the rate- setting process-as GASB begins to roll out new pension guidance and other proposed rules. •