Efficiency and the Electric Grid
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Commissioner Wellinghoff is a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that oversees all wholesale electric transactions and interstate electric transmission and gas transmission in the country. He was recommended to be nominated by President Bush to the Commission by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Before coming to the Commission, Commissioner Wellinghoff was a partner with one of Nevada's largest law firms. He has concentrated his practice in the fields of energy law and utility regulation for the past thirty-two years.
Commissioner Wellinghoff was appointed by the Attorney General of Nevada to serve as the state's first Consumer Advocate for Customers of Public Utilities. While Consumer Advocate, Commissioner Wellinghoff represented Nevada's utility consumers before the Nevada Commission, the FERC, and in appeals before the Nevada Supreme Court. He served two terms as Consumer Advocate, and personally participated in dozens of complex utility rate and regulatory matters on behalf of Nevada Consumers. While Consumer Advocate, Commissioner Wellinghoff
authored one of the first comprehensive state utility integrated planning statutes and successfully lobbied that statute through the Nevada legislature. The statute became a model for utility integrated planning processes across the country and companion statutes were eventually adopted in seventeen other states.
Mr. Mike Warwick joined Battelle-Northwest in January 1990 as a Program Manager. His role as a research scientist allows him to focus on strategic issues for utilities, regulators, U. S. Departments of Energy, Defense, and State, Federal Power Marketing Administrations (i.e., the Bonneville Power Administration). Typical subjects include the areas of industry restructuring, energy resource performance and program evaluation, energy markets, and utility management consulting.Mr. Warwick has managed projects in integrated resource planning, DSM program evaluation, and energy resource performance assessment and demonstration. Currently, he leads the laboratory's electricity industry restructuring efforts.
Previously, Mr. Warwick led a support contract with regulators in North Carolina overseeing the implementation of least-cost plans by Duke Power, CP&L, and Virginia Power and advised them on industry restructuring. He managed an umbrella contract to evaluate the Bonneville's multi-million dollar DSM programs and led a team of technologists working with Bonneville to improve the efficiency and productivity of their generation, transmission, environmental and customer service assets and investments.
