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Electricity Transmission Business School set for June 23-26
Mark Reutter, Business Editor
(217) 333-0568; mreutter@illinois.edu
4/16/03
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
will team with the Edison Electric Institute to offer a 3 1/2-day course
on the rapid changes in electricity markets and the transmission business.
The EEI Transmission Business School will meet June 23-26 at the Sears
Tower Conference Center, 233 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago.
"Transmission has become the critical element for a competitive
electrical market to work smoothly," said George Gross, the Illinois
professor of electrical and computer
engineering who is director of the transmission business school.
"This program is designed to provide professionals with a comprehensive
understanding of the challenges facing the industry."
Eleven academic and industrial specialists will present key issues in
regional transmission organization (RTO) development, emerging transmission
business structures, transmission congestion management, evolving electricity
markets and the transmission business model, among other topics.
In addition to Gross, lecturers will include James P. Fama, executive
director of the energy delivery group of the Edison Electric Institute;
Thomas J. Overbye, an Illinois professor of electrical
and computer engineering; Masheed Rosenqvist, vice president of
the National Grid Co.; Bruce Wollenberg, professor of electrical engineering
at the University of Minnesota; and Shmuel Oren, professor of industrial
engineering and operations research at the University of California,
Berkeley.
The transmission business school is coordinated through the Illinois
Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). Online
registration is available.
