EBC Energy Program

Increased Natural Gas Transmission into New England

Large Hydro and Wind Electricity Alternatives
Thursday, June 5, 2014

McLane, Graf, Raulerson, & Middleton, P.A.
300 TradeCenter - Suite 7000
Woburn, Massachusetts
(for GPS purposes only, use 100 Sylvan Road)

This EBC program will provide an overview of developing efforts to bring new long distance
transmission lines from Canada and northern New England to supply new renewable electricity
to southern New England. Large scale hydropower and on-shore wind power, in large
quantities, are only available from the North and there is a rush to move such power in quantity
to meet fast approaching state renewable energy goals. As we approach the second half of this
decade, the New England States, particularly the densely populated states of CT, MA and RI,
are at risk of not meeting Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) mandates. Multiple competing
projects for North-South transmission lines are in planning, lines intended to bring wind power,
Canadian hydropower, or both into southern New England. It remains to be seen which of these
proposals will prevail. Importing large scale hydro is mostly motivated by economics, reliability
and carbon politics. Imported large scale hydro would compete with combined cycle natural gas
and base load nuclear capacity in addition to furthering progress toward a lower carbon
footprint. Only CT recognizes large scale hydro within its RPS but there is momentum to bring
large hydro into RPS more broadly.

Current natural gas pipeline capacity into New England is a major issue for both a dependent
power generation grid and a burgeoning demand from residential and commercial customers.
Recent pipeline capacity shortfalls has caused power prices to spike to very high levels and
forced seldom-used expensive oil-fired units to operate much more than is desirable. Such
dependence on a constrained natural gas fuel supply deserves careful attention because the
New England generation grid, at nearly 50% natural gas, is vulnerable to the possibility of losing
over 8000 MW of coal and oil to retirement.


7:30 a.m. Registration and Networking, Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. Welcome Dale Raczynski, Program Chair, Principal, Epsilon Associates

8:05 a.m. Introduction Bob Bibbo, Chair EBC Energy Committee

8:20 a.m. Getting Large Hydro and Wind Electricity to the New England Market
Moderator - Ted Barten, Managing Principal, Epsilon Associates
Greenline Maine to Greater Boston
o Stephen Conant, Senior Vice President, Anbaric Transmission

Overview of Hydro-Quebec Systems and Potential Links to New England
o Carolyn OConner, Director, External Affairs and Communications
Hydro Quebec US
New England Clean Power Link 150 mile underground 1000 MW
HVDC Donald Jessome, President and CEO of TDI, invited

9:30 a.m. Networking Break

10:00 a.m. Increasing Natural Gas Capacity into the Region
Moderator John Meeske, President, Energy Market Decisions
Algonquin Incremental Market - AIM Expansion
o Michael Dirrane, Director of Marketing
Spectra Energy Transmission
Northeast Expansion Project
o Curtis Cole, Director, Business Development
Kinder Morgan Tennessee Gas Pipeline
Continent to Coast Expansion Project
o Cynthia Armstrong, Director of Marketing & Business Development
Portland Natural Gas Transmission System

11:15 a.m. Open Discussion
12:00 p.m. Adjourn

PROGRAM CHAIR
Dale T. Raczynski, Principal
Epsilon Associates
3 Clock Tower Place, Suite 250, Maynard, MA 01754
(978) 461-6222 // draczyns@epsilonassociates.com


SPEAKERS

Cynthia L. Armstrong, Director, Marketing and Business Development
Portland Natural Gas Transmission System
cynthia_armstrong@transcanada.com

Cynthia L. Armstrong is Director of Marketing and Business Development for Portland Natural Gas
Transmission System (PNGTS). She is responsible for marketing daily, short-term and long-term capacity,
as well as development of new services and related projects on PNGTS.
Ms. Armstrong has been with PNGTS since 2004. Previously, she worked for Sprague Energy as its
Managing Director Natural Gas Supply and Risk Management. She also held other marketing and trading
positions at SEMCO Energy Services, Norstar Energy, and Orange and Rockland Utilities.
She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New
York in Buffalo, and also earned a Master of Business Administration in Corporate and Investment Finance
from New York University.

Curtis R. Cole, Director, Business Development, East Region
Tennessee Gas Pipeline
Curtis_Cole@kindermorgan.com

Curtis R. Cole is Director, Business Development, East Region Tennessee Gas Pipeline. Curtis joined Kinder
Morgan in July 2013 as the Director of Business Development, East Region. He is responsible for developing
and executing capital growth projects that leverage Kinder Morgans existing footprint (i.e. expansions and

greenfield projects) for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline and Southern Natural Gas systems. Mr. Cole has more
than more than twenty-eight years of energy experience in the natural gas and electric industries. Prior to
joining Kinder Morgan, Mr. Cole has held various engineering, business deve-opment, origination, and
management roles with Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (now part of Kinder Morgan), Peoples
Energy (now part of Integrys Energy Group, Inc.), and Sequent Energy Management. Mr. Cole received his
bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Iowa and earned his M.S. in Financial Markets
and Trading from the Stuart School of Business in Chicago, IL.

Stephen Conant, Senior Vice President
Anbaric Power
New England Independent Transmission Company
(781) 635-7205 // sconant@anbaricpower.com

Mr. Conant leads the development of Anbarics Green Line Project. He was a Senior Market Analyst for
ESAI, where he lead the firms western power markets practice. Prior to that he was Senior Consultant for
Stone & Webster Management Consultant where he was responsible for environmental due diligence and
evaluating regulatory risk exposure to the financing of major power infrastructure projects. He worked as
Planning Director for Lowell, MA, as Capital Projects Development Manager for Mass Department of
Environmental Management, and as District Director for US Congressman Chester Atkins. He has a BA in
Philosophy and Environmental Sciences from UMass-Lowell and an MA in Urban and Environmental Policy
from Tufts.

Michael Dirrane, Director of Marketing
Spectra Energy Transmission
MJDirrane@spectraenergy.com

Michael J. Dirrane is Director Northeast Marketing for Spectra Energy Transmission. He is responsible for
managing the commercial relationships between Spectra Energys Northeast Pipelines (Texas Eastern
Transmission, LP and Algonquin Gas Transmission, LP) and major gas utilities and power in the Northeast
U.S. He held several senior level positions in Marketing, Regulatory Affairs and Gas Control for Spectra
Energy Transmission and its predecessor companies. He joined the company in 1980 in the Gas Control
Dept. at Algonquin Gas Transmission Company. Subsequently he worked in Regulatory Affairs and has been
in the Marketing Department since 1995. Mike received a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from
Boston College in 1979 and a Master of Business Administration from Babson College in 1991. He is married
with two children.


Carolyn O'Connor, Director, External Affairs and Communications
HQUS
oconnor.carolyn@hydro.qc.ca

Carolyn O'Connor was named Director of External Affairs and communications for HQUS earlier this year.
HQUS is the US subsidiary of Hydro Quebec responsible for establishing business development opportunities
and executing structured commercial transactions in US energy markets and for providing information about
HQ resources and initiatives to customers and stakeholders. In this newly created position, Carolyn is
responsible for enhancing awareness of HQ and HQUS with industry and state regulatory and legislative
stakeholders.

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