The Carbon Challenge: Impact on Utilities

Sixth Webinar in the Series – September 22, 10:00AM Eastern Standard Time

• Focus on strategic advice – growth strategy, acquisitions, scenario planning - to participants and investors in the energy, utilities and infrastructure sectors, with emphasis on renewable energy and climate change. Experience with numerous aspects of intersection of strategy and corporate finance, including: Project evaluation, financial structure modeling, valuation, acquisition screening and due diligence.
• Extensive contacts with senior executives among Independent Power Producers (IPPs), utilities, suppliers, oil & gas, and private equity and hedge fund investors with energy and infrastructure sector focus.
• Recognized as one of Booz’s thought leaders on generation, renewables, climate change, coal, and infrastructure, with multiple publications and media interviews on these topics (quotes on infrastructure, generation sector trends and climate change in Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, etc.).

• Director of Environmental Affairs, Southern Company since 2002, responsible for the direction and management of federal environmental issues for Southern Company
• Represents Southern Company before Federal Congressional and Executive Branch policymakers, and has also represented the company before international policy making bodies including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
• Serves as 2008-2009 Chair of the Environmental Executive Advisory Committee for the Edison Electric Institute
• BA in political science and MBA in public administration from the University of West Florida

Matthew Most is the Managing Director of Environmental Policy for Edison Mission Energy.  Most is responsible for federal and state government relations focused on climate change issues in the states where Edison Mission Group and its subsidiaries operate. In this role Mr. Most has served on both the Illinois Climate Change Advisory Group and Midwest Governors Association's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Advisory Group, to which Mr. Most was a Governor’s appointee. Additionally, Most is responsible for new business opportunities designed to reduce the carbon intensity of EME earnings, including projects focused on renewable energy and demand side management.

Previously Mr. Most was Director, Emissions & Fuels at Edison Mission Marketing & Trading (EMMT), responsible for managing the company's environmental and fuels commodity risk. EMMT manages the commodity exposure of Edison Mission Energy, primarily those associated with its 7,500 MW coal-fired merchant power fleet and its 1,000 MW wind fleet. Prior to its acquisition by Edison Mission Energy, Mr. Most joined Citizens Power in the spring of 1999 to develop an emissions allowance trading desk.

Mr. Most served as Chairperson of the Environmental Markets Association (EMA) for 3 years and a director for 5 years. Mr. Most holds a Bachelors degree from Clark University in Environmental Science and an MBA from Babson College.