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Background & Early Education
Were you interested in science as a boy?
Nuclear was the glamour field of engineering when you were in school?
Was there a lead professor that shaped how you thought nuclear engineering?
When you came out of MIT energy policy in America was starting to be a significant issue?
How did you move into energy policy?
What is your current perspective on how early energy policies have borne out?
What led you out of government and into the private sector?
You then went to American Natural Resources. What was the source of that transition?
Consumer's Power Co., CMS Energy, & Nuclear Power
You had a whole range of experiences to draw on when you went to CMS in 1985?
Consumer's was a tough brief to pick up off the table?
Were there competing recovery strategies at that time?
As a trained nuclear engineer, do you think nuclear power will come back?
Will America, or others, actually build modern nuclear plants within ten years or so?
As CMS came out of crisis and began looking ahead, what appeared to be the best direction?
Was there opposition to changing PUHCA or were people not concerned?
Your strategy for CMS seems to be directed toward international markets.
One of your main concerns is making sure that the international environment remains stable?
Utility Restructuring
If things are so great now why are we making fundamental changes in America's power industry?
Is there a basic problem that you believe will prevent restructuring?
Stranded costs are cited as a major problem
How would you compare gas deregulation with what we're now seeing in electricity?
Are people overly optimistic about how fast electricity deregulation will to go?
From CMS' perspective, should this policy be shaped at the federal or the state? Which is better?
Are there other issues about restructuring that concern you?
Does deregulation change CMS' outlook for the domestic power market?
Is demand side management going to go away in this deregulated environment?
Technology & The Future
How do you see the technological future in generation?
Is alternative generation still off in the future, or are new technologies emerging?
What about more decentralized facilities?
Do you see more innovations coming in transmission of power?
What will the power industry look like in America in 2010?