Contents
Biographical Information
Background and Early Career
Tell us a little
bit about yourself.
Did the 1970s energy crisis influence
your career choice?
What led you to write about Joseph
Priestley?
Priestly seems a
transitional figure between two eras--like yourself?
Do your views differ
from your colleagues due to your historical training?
Comment on your early regulatory
experience in Wisconsin.
Coming to Washington In the early 1980s, you joined the
FERC staff.
One of your projects
was the deregulation of natural gas?
How does energy law differ from
other types of legal practice?
You were on President
Clinton's transition team in 1992.
Did your prior experience at FERC
make it a easier when you became a commissioner?
Compare the Reagan and the Clinton
administrations at the FERC.
Restructuring Should we be restructuring electric
power and if so, why?
Are there lessons in airline and
telecommunication restructuring?
Have there been
models from natural gas restructuring that you've looked to?
The role of TVA, federal power authorities
and municipal utilities.
If Congress does
not grant FERC more authority, would that derail Order 888?
Discussions between FERC and the
Federal Trade Commission about marketing?
Technology Issues
and
Recent Events
Does it really matter what form
of organization controls transmission?
"Convergence," is this
complicating matters?
Critical events important to the
early history of restructuring?
PJM and locational
marginal cost pricing.
Do you see a future
for nuclear power?
Significant technical happenings
in the last decade or so?
Does a 10-year span for our monitoring
of restructuring make sense?