Address:3333 K Street, NW

National Energy Marketers Association

Fact Sheet

Suite 425

Washington, DC 20007

Phone:(202) 333-3288

Fax:(202) 333-3266

Background:The National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) is a national, non-profit trade association representing wholesale and retail marketers of energy, telecom and financial-related products, services, information and related technologies throughout the United States, Canada and the U.K. NEM's Membership includes wholesale and retail suppliers of electricity and natural gas, independent power producers, suppliers of distributed generation, energy brokers, power traders, and electronic trading exchanges, advanced metering and load management firms, billing and information technology providers, credit, risk management and financial services firms, software developers, clean coal technology firms as well as energy-related telecom, broadband and internet companies.

Activities:This regionally diverse, broad-based coalition of energy and technology firms has come together under NEM’s auspices to forge consensus and to help resolve as many issues as possible that would delay competition. NEM members urge lawmakers and regulators to implement:

Laws and regulations that open markets for natural gas, electricity and related products, services, information and technology in a competitively neutral fashion;

Rates, tariffs, taxes and operating procedures that unbundle competitive services from monopoly services and encourage true competition on the basis of price, quality of service and provision of value-added services;
Competitively neutral standards of conduct that protect all market participants;
Accounting and disclosure standards to promote the proper valuation of energy assets, equity securities and forward energy contracts, including derivatives; and
Policies that encourage investments in new technologies, including the integration of energy, telecommunications and Internet services to lower the cost of energy and related services.

Membership

Roster:Wholesale and Retail Energy Marketers: ACN Energy, AES NewEnergy, AGL Resources, Agway Energy Products, Allegheny Energy Supply, Aquila, Castle Power, Centrica/Energy America, CMS MS&T, Commonwealth Energy/Electric America, Dominion, Entergy-Koch Trading, Exelon Energy, First Energy Services, Keyspan Energy Services, MidAmerican Energy, New England Energy, Nicor Energy, Ontario Power Generation, Peoples Energy, Proliance Energy, PSEG Energy Resources & Trading, Sempra Energy Solutions, Shamrock Energy Corp., SouthStar Energy Services, TECO Power Services, Total Gas & Electric, Trigen

Billing. Back Office and Customer Care Solutions: Alliance Data Systems, Belmont Customer Acquisition, CASA, Customer Link, Excelergy, InBusiness Teleservices, Lodestar Corporation

Advanced Metering, Information, Technology, Telecom and Digital Communications: ABB,Automated Energy, Cedar, Energysource, Enermetrix, EnSite, Excelergy, IMServ, Intecom, Itron, Lodestar Corporation

Energy Brokerage, Financial Services and Electronic Trading Platforms: Amerex Energy, Cantor Fitzgerald/Tradespark, Prebon Energy

Legal and Consulting Firms: Caminus, Deloitte & Touche, Dickinson-Wright, FEA, ICF Consulting, KWI, MCGI

Leadership:Craig G. Goodman, President

Kevin Stoffer, Executive Vice President

Bob Dickerman, Chair, NEM Executive Committee

Harry Fry, Vice Chair, NEM Executive Committee

National Energy Policy Chairs

Chris Bernard, John Murphy, Kevin Madden,Aldyn Hoekstra, Co-Chairs, Wholesale Gas Committee

Barry Green, Chris Bernard and Kevin Madden, Co-Chairs, Wholesale Electric Committee

Michael Meath, Bill Kinneary, Ron Lukas and George Phillips, Co-Chairs, Retail Gas Committee

Phil O'Connor, Michael Meath, and George Phillips, Co-Chairs, Retail Electric Committee

George Phillips, Co-Chair, Distributed Generation Committee

Michael Meath and Jan Stapleton, Co-Chairs, Taxation Committee

Emmett Kelly and Greg Lizak, Co-Chairs, Metering Committee

Chris Hamilos, Bill Mahoney and Bill Malone, Co-Chairs, Billing and Back Office Committee

Jim Mathers and Rod Bates, Co-Chairs, Customer Acquisition Services & Support

Risk Management and Financial Governance Taskforce

Bob Young and Kim Detiveaux, Co-Chairs, Auditing and Compliance Standards

John Murphy, Mike Walker, Gordon Allott, Bob Young, Kim Detiveaux, Co-Chairs, Credit and Market Risks

Bob Young, Kim Detiveaux and Gordon Allott, Co-Chairs, Measurement of Capital Adequacy

Lee Taylor, Harry Fry and Mike Prokop, Co-Chairs, Price Transparency

Dennis Sobieski, Disclosure and Reporting

Energy & Telecom & Digital Communications Technologies, Standards and Protocols Taskforce

Kyle Priest, Telecom & Digital Communications

Chris Hamilos and Bill Mahoney, Co-Chairs, Energy

International Restructuring Coordination Taskforce

Chris Hamilos, Technology Committee

Ralph Masiello and Greg Lizak, Co-Chairs, Market Structure Barry Green and David Crabtree, Co-Chairs, Cross Border

Chris Bernard, Co-Chair, Taskforce on Coordination with EEI