Tony Evers PSC Chair appointment?!?!?

December 22nd, 2018

Tony Evers, Wisconsin’s soon-to-be Governor, has appointed Rebecca Cameron Valcq as the new head of PSC.
Sounds like at least one docket, the Badger Hollow buy/sell 5-BS-228, is up for a PSC Commissioner recusal when it’s before the Commission!  Why?  Quarles is Rebecca Cameron Valcq’s firm, where she’s big gun in their Energy division.  Quarles just happens to be representing MGE/WPSC, and they were over the top in objecting to Jewell Jinkins Intervenors participation in the MGE/WPSC “buy/sell” docket 5-BS-228, and the Commission blew them out of the water, denied their Motion for Interlocutory Review, with nary a comment”

MGE/WPSC were LOSERS in WI yesterday

Rebecca Cameron Valcq?

From her Quarles bio:

Rebecca Cameron Valcq is a partner in the firm’s Energy, Environment & Natural Resources Practice Group. She is an experienced regulatory attorney and focuses her practice on energy and utility matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Valcq spent 15 years as Regulatory Counsel for We Energies where, among other responsibilities, she represented the company before the Public Service Commission in Wisconsin and advised management on multiple areas of compliance as well as on the impact of pending and newly enacted legislation.

Her experience as in-house counsel for Wisconsin’s largest utility company has uniquely positioned her to manage multiple complex matters while spotting relevant and emerging issues. She understands the business needs of her clients and provides practical advice.

Representative experience:

And from a little birdie in the inbox, the direction that Gov. Evers wants to go:

Public Service Commission key to Tony Evers’ climate agenda

This is reminding me of the appointment of Lauren Azar to the Commission…
Posted by Carol A. Overland
Filed in Energy, Legislative & Policy, Political Sense (non?), Solar, Wind
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