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NARUC President Taps McKinney to Lead Clean-Coal Subcommittee

WASHINGTON—National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners President David Coen of Vermont selected Commissioner Jon McKinney of West Virginia to lead the Association’s Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Sequestration.

Commissioner McKinney replaces former subcommittee Chairman David Ziegner of Indiana, who was appointed co-Vice Chair of the Association’s Committee on Electricity.

The Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Sequestration is an affiliate the Electricity Committee. Through panel discussions and policy resolutions, the Subcommittee provides State regulators with an important venue for determining how to promote cleaner coal generation.

“With new limits on carbon restrictions on the horizon, analyzing the role coal can play in our future energy mix is essential,” President Coen said. “This Subcommittee plays a critical role in helping define our nation’s energy policy, and I look forward to Commissioner McKinney’s leadership. I also want to thank Commissioner Ziegner for his service to this Subcommittee, NARUC members, and, by extension, our nation’s utility ratepayers.”

Commissioner McKinney was appointed to the West Virginia Public Service Commission in August 2005. He current serves on the NARUC Board of Directors and is the Immediate Past President of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

“Coal is an abundant natural resource and if we are going to reduce our carbon emissions, we must find ways to utilize this fuel in a cleaner, more efficient way,” Commissioner McKinney said. “Through this subcommittee, NARUC members can discuss pilot and demonstration projects along with the challenges and opportunities we face. I want to thank President Coen for entrusting me with this opportunity.”
 

NARUC is a non-profit organization founded in 1889 whose members include the governmental agencies that are engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers in the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. NARUC's member agencies regulate telecommunications, energy, and water utilities. NARUC represents the interests of State public utility commissions before the three branches of the Federal government.