NERA Affiliated Consultant Mike King joined leading project developers, capital providers, and other experts from the finance community at this conference in New Orleans on 11-13 January 2011. Mr. King participated in a session on the future of the  power sector. He presented a series of possible scenarios of key factors driving the economics of power generation technologies (such as environmental policy, regulation, fuel prices, economic growth, and cost of capital). A group of industry executives then discussed the implications of those scenarios for the future of the power sector and its development.