Robert D. Kahn, Program Co-Chair, is the
Principal of Robert D. Kahn & Company,
a strategic communications firm. Over the
last 20 years, he has consulted extensively
with independent power producers in
permit assistance, policy advocacy and
public relations.
Harvard P. Spigal, Program Co-Chair, is
a partner in the Portland office of Preston
Gates & Ellis LLP. Prior to coming to
Preston Gates, he was Senior Vice
President and General Counsel at
Bonneville Power Administration, where
he provided executive management and
legal expertise to the Administrator/CEO.
Susan K. Ackerman has been a practicing
attorney and manager in the energy
industry since 1985. She currently
represents public power interests in BPA
rate, power sales contract, and transmission
issues and also represents independent
power producers.
Thomas R. Anderson is the General
Manager Public Utility District #1 of
Whatcom County, where he directs an
effort to incorporate green power,
particularly biomass. He has been
supporting the construction of anaerobic
digesters for dairy manure for several
years.
Charlie J. Black is an independent
consultant who helps his clients plan,
acquire and manage energy resources. His
broad experience in integrated resource
planning (IRP) includes management of
IRP efforts for investor-owned and
publicly-owned utilities.
Douglas B. Brown is the Vice President
and Manager, Power Development for
Bechtel Enterprises, Inc. He is responsible
for the management of BEn’s domestic and
international power project development
and financing activities
David Danner is Executive Policy Advisor
to Washington Governor Gary Locke,
working primarily in the areas of
telecommunications, energy, finance and
elections. Previously, he was counsel to the
Washington State Senate Energy and
Utilities Committee.
Jason Eisdorfer is legal counsel and
Energy Program Director of the Citizens’
Utility Board of Oregon. He has
represented the residential consumer in
numerous rate cases, utility mergers, and
public policy dockets before the Oregon
Public Utility Commission.
Karen Fleckner is the Founder and CEO of
Nu Element, Inc. (NEI) where she focuses
her energies on the development of fuel cell
technology for the distributed generation
power market.
Tom Foley, President of Tom Foley
Consultants, has over 30 years of
experience in the field of energy analysis
and management. He has conducted
integrated resource planning (IRP) in the
Northwest and in other parts of the US,
including consulting with utilities.
Jeff Fuller, a Vice President and Risk
Manager with Power Resource Managers,
LLP has 13 years of experience in the
electric utility industry covering a broadrange
of operational, economic and financial planning activities. His principle
area of focus is helping PRM’s clients to
understand and measure the risks
associated with their load and resource
portfolios.
Scott A. Gutting is the President and
Founder of Energy Strategies, LLC. He
coordinates the efforts of a team of
economists, engineers, business strategists
and financial analysts in all of Energy
Strategies’ consulting activities.
Roger Hamilton is currently consulting in
the wind energy industry, and is the project
director for West Wind Wires. Previously
he served Oregon Governor Kitzhaber as
his Advisor on Energy and Watersheds and
served as Commissioner, Oregon Public
Utilities Commission.
Randall W. Hardy is Principal, Hardy
Energy Consulting Services and former
Administrator of the Bonneville Power
Administration (BPA), the largest federal
power marketing administration in the
country.
Michael Heckler is Director, Marketing
and Development for Windland, Inc.
Boise-based Windland is a developer,
owner and operator of wind farms in
California and the Northwest. He is
currently project managing several wind
farm developments.
Clothilde V. Hewlett is a partner in the San
Francisco office of Preston Gates & Ellis
LLP. Her practice focuses on assisting both
private sector companies and tax-exempt
organizations who seek to work and
communicate effectively with agencies and
legislators in the public sector as well as
public entities performing governmental
functions.
Jeff King is the Senior Resource Analyst
for the Northwest Power and Conservation
Council of Portland, Oregon. He is
responsible for the development of
information regarding electric power
generating resources and for forecasting
wholesale electric power prices.
Dan Kirschner is the Executive Director of
the Northwest Gas Association (NWGA), a
trade organization representing the natural
gas industry in the Pacific Northwest. He
has extensive local, state, and federal
public affairs experience.
Yakout Mansour, a Senior Vice President
in System Operations and Asset Management
with British Columbia Transmission
Corporation (BCTC) and joined BCTC
from BC Hydro where, most recently, he
was Vice-President, Grid Operations and
Inter-Utility Affairs.
Eric M. Markell is Senior Vice President
Energy Resources of Puget Sound Energy.
He directs the company’s energy supply
and resource management activities.
Craig Martin is the Manager of the
Western Region Marketing and Development
for TransCanada’s power business.
He has participated in the development of
ten gas-fired cogeneration, peaking and
combined cycle power projects in the
Pacific Northwest and Canada.
Hank McIntosh, a staff analyst with the
WUTC, was staff lead for the PSE Least
Cost Plan for its 2003 filing, and staff lead
for its RFP and bidding filing in 2003. He
was also the staff witness for acquisition
prudence in its recent rate case 2004.
Cynthia Mitchell of E3: Energy/
Environment/Economy, Inc. has been
involved with energy issues for the last 29
years. She has focused on integrated
resource planning (IRP) where utility
resource procurement and planning
decisions are reviewed and evaluated.
Rep. Jeff Morris was elected to the
Washington State House of Representatives
in 1996. He currently serves as Chair
of the House Committee on Technology,
Telecommunications and Energy, and
serves on the Finance and Transportation
committees.
Cyrus Noë has worked as a journalist for
over 50 years and now publishes eight
energy newsletters as CEO of Energy
NewsData in Seattle and San Francisco.
Clearing Up and California Energy
Markets are the definitive weekly reports
on energy policy development in Western
North America.
Alvin “Al” S. Pak serves as Director,
Regulatory Policy & Analysis, of Sempra
Energy Global Enterprises. In this
position, he provides business and
regulatory counsel to a diverse group of
international energy enterprises operating
in natural gas and electricity markets.
Peter N. Rigby is a Director of Utilities,
Energy and Project Finance at Standard &
Poor’s where he is one of the firm’s
principal contacts for new ratings in energy
and project finance.
John H. Robinson, a Senior Consultant
with Entrix, Inc., has 31 years of
experience in all aspects of energy project
development including project strategic
planning, site selection/acquisition, project
permitting and permit compliance during
construction. He has been involved in most
types of energy generation projects including
combustion turbine, coal, nuclear, and
alternative energy technologies.
Brian Silverstein has been with the
Bonneville Power Administration since
1979, where he has focused on transmission
reliability, market and policy issues.
Currently he is Acting Vice President for
Planning and Chief Engineer.
Scott Sitzer is Director of the Office of
Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels
of the Energy Information Administration.
He is currently responsible for the design,
implementation, and maintenance of data
collection systems for various power
supplies and for their associated analysis
and dissemination.
Vito Stagliano, the Vice President for
Transmission Policy at Calpine, served as
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Policy Analysis during the first Bush
Administration. Also, he was a visiting
scholar at Resources for the Future and
then Vice President and Corporate Officer
of Commonwealth Edison Company of
Illinois.
James “Jamie” Van Nostrand, a partner
with Stoel Rives LLP, focuses his practice
electricity and gas regulation, utility
mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications
and administrative law. |
