Northeast Energy and Commerce Association Hosts Secretary Ian Bowles

The Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA), a broad-based trade association serving the competitive electric power industry, will host “Successful Renewable Energy Project Development in New England” on March 1, 2007.

Ian Bowles, Secretary of Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will present the keynote speech on the new administration’s goals and priorities for renewable energy.

Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2007 Location: Newton Marriott Hotel, 2445 Commonwealth Avenue Time: 8:00 a.m. registration 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. conference 5:00 p.m. reception

To register, please visit www.necanews.org.

For more than two decades, NECA has created an open forum among electric power stakeholders to foster the development and maturation of competitive power markets. NECA promotes environmentally sound, reliable and cost-effective wholesale and retail markets for the production and delivery of electric power supply, as well as competing energy services and resource alternatives, including conservation, innovative demand-side and power delivery technologies, renewable energy and distributed generation.

Premier sponsors include Conservation Services Group, Inc., WilmerHale; additional sponsors include Adler Pollock & Sheehan, P.C.; AMEC Earth & Environmental, Applied Technology & Management, Inc.; Brown, Olson & Gould, P.C.; BSC Group; CommonWealth Resource Management; Constellation NewEnergy; Day Pitney LLP; Epsilon Associates, Inc.; ESS Group, Inc.; Ferriter, Scobbo & Rodophele, P.C.; Foley Hoag LLP; GDS Associates, Inc.; Keegan Werlin LLP; La Capra Associates; Loria Emerging Energy Consulting; National Grid; New Energy Opportunities, Inc.; Nixon Peabody LLP; PPM Energy, Inc.; R.W. Beck, Inc.; Rath, Young and Pignatelli; Rich May, P.C.; Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC; Tetra Tech EC, Inc.; and TRC.