Mr. Andy Weissman
Editor-in-Chief & Publisher
Energy Business Watch
Andy is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Energy Business Watch, a highly-regarded Market Advisory Service that provides in-depth, cutting-edge analyzes of the U.S. and global oil and natural gas markets. He is an expert on the U.S. and global oil and natural gas, electricity and coal markets, commodities trading and pricing, electric utility industry restructuring, regulatory policy, innovative deal structuring, Clean Air Act issues, power supply planning and the emerging technologies needed to provide alternative sources of energy. Andy also helped to pioneer the market for trading emissions credits in the U.S., negotiating most of the early, path-breaking deals. He has over 30 years experience as a senior-level consultant and corporate advisor in the energy industry on cutting edge strategic issues, generally at the CEO level. Energy Market Dislocations Beginning in the spring of 2002, when the spot market price of natural gas was at $ 2.25/MMBTU, Andy was among the first to warn of the emerging natural gas crisis. Subsequently, he was one of the first to predict the potential for oil prices to reach $ 65 per barrel in 2005. As a result of this work, Andy has become nationally recognized as an expert on the growing imbalance between supply and demand in the U.S. and global oil and natural gas markets, the likely price impacts of these imbalances and the implications for the strategic plans of market participants. He also has been deeply involved in evaluating the potential role of Clean Coal Technologies, Gas-to-Liquids and Coal-to-Liquids projects and Liquefied Natural Gas in meeting future U.S. and global energy needs. Andy also has more than three decades of experience with electric utility industry restructuring, the U.S. coal industry, regulatory policy and energy financing and has provided advice to major financial investors and to many of the largest energy producers and suppliers in the country over the course of his career. With many of Andy’s earlier predictions now having been borne out, his analyses of the U.S. and global natural gas and oil markets, the U.S. coal market and the U.S. electricity market are now widely sought out by senior executives of major energy companies, large investment firms, large energy users and senior government officials. He also has been in the forefront of assessing the potential implications nationally and globally of increased utilization of Liquefied Natural Gas, coal gasification, Coal-to-Liquids and Gas-to-Liquids technologies. Speeches, Articles & Special Programs In addition to his role as a strategic advisor, Andy lectures frequently on these topics and has written a series of path-breaking articles on the emerging U.S. and global energy crisis that have received widespread attention within the energy industry. He has been a featured speaker before numerous major industry groups, including the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners (NARUC) (on multiple occasions), the 2008 NARUC-DOE National Electricity Delivery Forum, the 2008 Joint Meeting of the CEOs and Boards of Directors of the North American Grid Operators, the National Rural Electric Co-Operative Association (NRECA) (also on multiple occasions), the Harvard Electricity Program, the Citibank Annual Forum for CFOs, the American Bankers Association 2007 Summer Meeting, the National Regulatory Conference, the Edison Electric Institute’s Legal Affairs Committee, EEI’s National Accounts Program, the Western Governors’ Association, the National Mining Association, the National Coal Transportation Association, the American Coal Council, the National Western Mining Conference, the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, the New Mexico Oil & Gas Association, the Ohio Oil & Gas Association, the American Public Gas Supply Association, the Florida Gas Supply Association, the Eastern Law & Minerals Institute, Coal Outlook's Annual Conferences, the Deloitte Touché Annual Energy Conference, the Calyon Energy Conference 2008, the Annual Meeting of the Electric Consumers of America (ELCON), the Industrial Energy Consumers of America, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and numerous other industry conferences and events, including programs and events sponsored by numerous large energy companies, large energy users and major financial institutions. Andy also has provided special briefings on issues pertaining to the emerging U.S. energy crisis and potential new sources of supply to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Market Oversight & Investigation (OMOI), the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a Joint Workshop on LNG sponsored by the California Energy Commission (CEC), the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) and the California Resources Authority (CRA) in which he was asked to appear as an expert witness by the Staff of the CEC. He was the featured speaker at a recent Joint Energy Symposium held by Duke University and the University of North Carolina held at Duke University and has spoken previously at other special programs sponsored by Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of New Mexico Law School and the University of Toledo Law School. He also has been a member of the faculty for the Institute of Public Utilities Annual Regulatory Studies Program at Michigan State University ("Camp NARUC") and for the past several years has been a guest lecturer at the University of California’s Boalt Law School in Berkeley, California and the Vermont Law School in South Royalton, Vermont. In addition, Andy has presented more than 20 two-day programs on the Emerging Natural Gas Crisis, attended by more than 250 representatives of almost every major energy company in the U.S., the FERC, numerous state regulatory commissions, numerous large energy users and many of the premier financial institutions in the U.S. His webcasts on current trends in U.S. energy markets have been heard by a total audience of more than 1,000 people, including representatives of more than 175 large energy companies, industrial users and state and federal regulatory authorities. Further, Andy has published a series of widely read articles relating to the emerging energy crisis in Edison Electric Institute’s Electric Perspectives Magazine, American Oil & Gas Journal, the American Coal Council’s American Coal Magazine and Energy Central’s "Energy Pulse" web site. His articles on the Energy Pulse web site are by far and away the most frequently read articles ever posted on that site, with downloads by more than 30,000 unique viewers. In addition, his monthly "Market Matters" column for American Oil & Gas Journal has proven to be one of the most popular monthly commentaries published in the industry. He also has been quoted frequently in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Business Week and other major national publications on issues pertaining to U.S. and global energy markets and has appeared frequently on national television (including as a featured guest on CNBC’s "Kudlow & Cramer" program) to discuss these topics.
