W Scott Miller III

Executive Director, Western Power Trading Forum

WPTF is a broad-based organization with over 100-member companies, dedicating to encouraging competition in Western states electric markets. Scott comes to this position from a background that has been dedicated to competitive electric and natural gas markets.

Prior to coming to WPTF, Scott was the Senior Market Advisor in the Policy Office at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from 2008-2017. He was responsible for advising the Commission and staff on electric and natural gas markets.

Katherine Blunt

Energy Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Katherine Blunt covers power, renewable energy and utilities for the Wall Street Journal. Much of her work has focused on wildfires, drought and other reliability challenges facing the West. Her coverage of PG&E was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and earned a Gerald Loeb award, the highest honor in business reporting. She is the author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas & Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid. She lives in San Francisco.

Friday Presentations

Presentation on Environmental Policy from DC: Coming or Not?
Speaker: Kevin Poloncarz
Covington & Burling LLP

Kevin Poloncarz is a partner with Covington & Burling LLP and co-chairs the firm’s Environmental and Energy Practice Group, Energy Industry Group and ESG Initiative.  Kevin is ranked among the nation’s leading climate change lawyers; on the board of directors of the Environmental Law Institute and the Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy; a fellow and regent of the American College of Environmental Lawyers; and on the advisory board and council of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University (NYU) School of Law and the State Energy and Environmental Law Center at NYU School of Law (respectively).  He is a graduate of Hobart College and the University of Chicago Law School, where Barack Obama wrote him a letter of recommendation for the clerkships he did not get.  Along with New York’s Deputy Solicitor General, Kevin argued the key statutory point for the winning side in American Lung Ass’n v. EPA, 985 F.3d 914 (D.C. Cir. 2021), in which the D.C. Circuit struck down the Trump Administration’s repeal of the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, and is currently defending that win in front of the Supreme Court. 

WPTF Consultant Presentations

Roundtable Discussion