Commissioners

FERC Friday reported that it lost a binder containing the personal information of 2,810 employees, including commissioners, who had left government service between October 1983 and August 2007.

Chuck Eaton has begun a one-year term as chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission. The chairmanship is rotated annually among the five commissioners. Eaton is in the second year of his first six-year term on the commission. He was elected in December 2006. Commissioner Doug Everett will serve as vice chairman. Commissioner Robert B. Baker Jr. will chair the energy committee.

FERC Commissioners Philip Moeller and Marc Spitzer are asking panelists who appeared at a recent technical conference on the agency’s enforcement policy to respond to a number of follow-up questions.

FERC Commissioners Philip Moeller and Marc Spitzer are asking panelists who appeared at a recent technical conference on the agency’s enforcement policy to respond to a number of follow-up questions.

Among 10 board-approved resolutions passed unanimously, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) urged Congress to address climate change Wednesday at the conclusion of its annual meeting in Anaheim, CA. Among six energy-related recommendations, NARUC urged climate-related legislation with cap-and-trade design principles for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Commission staff, former commissioners and industry representatives will testify Friday (Nov. 16) at a conference being held by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to examine its implementation of FERC’s enforcement authority as expanded by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Commission staff, former commissioners and industry representatives will testify Nov. 16 at a conference being held by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to examine its implementation of FERC’s enforcement authority as expanded by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) plans to undertake a study next year of the social and economic costs of maintaining restrictions on access to onshore and offshore federal lands for oil and natural gas development.

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) plans to undertake a study next year of the social and economic costs of maintaining restrictions on access to onshore and offshore federal lands for oil and natural gas development.