On April 25 the National Energy Marketers Association held the opening reception for its 14th annual conference "Power to Shape the Future" at the Embassy of Latvia. Rudolfs Bremanis, the Embassy’s Economic Counselor, and Craig Goodman, President of the National Energy Marketers Association, addressed the 80 participants. The US Energy Association has recently increased its membership and brings together 70 US companies and 500 individual members. This is the 4th year the event has been held in cooperation with the Embassy of Latvia.