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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?

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