Energy practitioners will cover the top ten legal issues associated with lowering energy costs, including local, state and federal regulations, contract negotiations, tax advantages and funding opportunities for "going green." The program will educate in-house counsel on how to substantially reduce energy costs for assets, such as casinos, manufacturing plants, mining operations, retail stores, restaurants, commercial real estate operations (e.g., REITS) and hospital systems while understanding the legal, regulatory and policy issues associated with doing so. Learn how to capture demand-side efficiencies and supply-side pricing advantages, including aggregating load for better pricing and changing customer from retail to wholesale; managing price risk exposure and negotiating price lock-ins in current supply contracts, or negotiating derivatives to lock in the price based on power prices, or prices of related commodities used to generate power; and understanding the tax incentives and offset projects for going green or reducing the carbon footprint.