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37 Infrastructure 1 (1997-1998)

handle is hein.journals/infrastr37 and id is 1 raw text is: infra VOL. 37, NO. 1 Interview: FERC Chair James J. Hoecker The future of the Federal Energy, Regulatoty Coininission Designate(d by President Clinton to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last June, James Iloecker has served as a FERC member since May 1993. In August 1995, he was reconfirmed to a five-year term. Iloecker is the first member of the FERC and its first chair to have once served on the Commission staff, where he was assis- tant general counsel for gas and oil litiga- tion, assistant general counsel for rulemak- ing and legislative analysis, and a legal advi- sor to two former commissioners. His background also includes the private practice of energy law. He has been of counsel to the Washington office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, and was a partner in Keck, Mahin & Cate. James J. Hocckcr IHoecker was raised in Eagle River, Wisconsin, and has lived in northern Virginia since 1979. lie received his B.A. from Northland College,Ashland,Wisconsin; his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky, and his Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin. This interview was conducted by Katherine B. Edwards, a partner with Grammer Kissel Robbins Skancke & Edwards. Ms. Edwards is the Section Vice Chair & Secretar)y and a member of the Newsletter Committee of the ABA Section of Public Utility Communications and Transportation Law. There have been numerous shifis in the electric industry What further changes do you see happening in the next few years? The electric industry is getting more dynamic all the time and what was a relatively sleepy area of Commission jurisdiction five years ago is now changing daily. I expect certain developments to begin to become clear in the next year or two. First, we will likely see a continued consolidation among the investor-owned utili- ties, and between electric utilities and natural gas companies-the so-called conver- gence mergers. One could reasonably expect a number of less formal, but no less powerful, strategic alliances to form among companies engaged in the delivery of energy in one form or another. As a consequence of these new relationships, we will see new products and ser- vices being developed, new kinds of transactions, and it will become a very differ- ent marketplace for power than it has been. Some people believe that there will (Continued on page 6) Welcome to Infrastructure, the new name for our quarterly publication! Don't be confused, it's the same great material, just under a different name. It's no longer News, now it's Infrastructure. N PCS Licenses and the Specter of Bankruptcy 0 Section Profiles * Committee Sign-rp * New Committee 0 People Watch FALL 1997

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