Regional Energy Summit

WASHINGTON—Exclusive coverage of the Council's Eastern Regional Energy Summit will be featured tomorrow on CleanSkies.tv. As the official media partner, CleanSkies.tv will provide live reports from the Summit on its newscasts at 9:00 a.m. EST and 4:00 p.m. EST, in addition to exclusive one-on-one interviews throughout the day. On April 19th, the Summit will be featured on “CleanSkies Sunday,” which airs in Washington on WJLA at 9:30 a.m. EST.

Who: The Council on Competitiveness; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; and Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) will host the Council on Competitiveness Eastern Regional Energy Summit.

New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine will keynote the event. Additional participants include Ralph Izzo, president and CEO of PSEG; Richard L. McCormick, president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Dominic Pileggi, president and CEO of Thomas & Betts Corporation; Shirley Ann Jackson, vice chair of the Council on Competitiveness and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and Deborah L. Wince-Smith, president of the Council on Competitiveness.

What: The event will focus on the rollout of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the use of energy-efficiency measures at scale to help meet RGGI’s emissions targets. The New Jersey summit is part of a series of regional energy summits that will take place across the country throughout 2009. The series will culminate with the Council's National Energy Summit & International Dialogue in Washington this fall.

Where: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
126 College Avenue
New Brunswick, New Jersey

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The Regional Energy Summit is by invitation only.

Contact:
Matthew Faraci
T 202 969 3387
F 202 682 5150
mfaraci@compete.org

Jennifer Carr
T 202 969 3405
F 202 682 5150
jcarr@compete.org