David Moskovitz is a Director and co-founder of The Regulatory Assistance Project. He served as a Commissioner of the Maine PUC from 1984 through 1989 after having served as a Commission Staff Attorney for six years. Mr. Moskovitz authored Maine's rules regarding the development of cogeneration and small power production. Prior to joining the Maine PUC, he was employed by Commonwealth Edison, Inc., an Illinois utility. Mr. Moskovitz has published numerous technical and policy articles on incentive regulation, least-cost planning and renewable energy. He is a frequent speaker at national seminars and has provided expert testimony on these topics. He received his B.S.E. in Engineering from Purdue University and his J.D. from Loyola University.

Richard Cowart is a Director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. One of the nation’s most experienced regulatory commissioners, he served as Commissioner and Chair of the Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) for thirteen years (1986-1999). He was elected President of the New England Conference of Public Utility Commissioners, and Chair of the NARUC Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment. He also served for four years as Chair of the National Council on Competition and the Electric Industry, an association of state and federal officials and legislators responsible for power sector reform in the U.S. Before his appointment to the PSB, Mr. Cowart was Assistant Professor and Director of the program in Planning and Law at the University of California, Berkeley (1980-85), and Executive Officer and General Counsel of the Vermont Environmental Board (1978-80). He received his B.A. from Davidson College, and the J.D. and Master of City Planning degrees from UC, Berkeley, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Ecology Law Quarterly, a leading journal of environmental law and policy.

Cheryl Harrington is a former Director and co-founder of The Regulatory Assistance Project. She was a Commissioner on the Maine Public Utilities Commission from 1982 to 1991. Ms. Harrington was Vice-Chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioner's Energy Conservation Committee and has appeared frequently as a lecturer on energy matters in national regulatory forums. She has advised several Committees of the United States Congress on the subjects of energy efficiency, the relationship between efficiency and global warming, and the economic and environmental benefits of a national energy strategy which embraces energy efficiency. Ms. Harrington served in the Maine Attorney General's Office as Division Chief for Consumer and Antitrust Litigation in the seven years prior to serving on the Maine PUC. She received her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Richard Sedano is a Director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. Mr. Sedano is the facilitator of the Mid-Atlantic Distributed Resource Initiative, the Midwest Demand Resources Initiative, and the Pacific Northwest Demand Response Project. Recently, he has worked with a collaborative in Arkansas and Oklahoma to launch energy efficiency programs, with members and stakeholders of the Ozone Transport Commission to develop utility policies to address regional ozone policy, and the stakeholders developing the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency. Prior to joining RAP in 2001, Mr. Sedano served as Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service (VDPS) for nine years, and in staff positions for seven more. The VDPS represents utility consumers in all regulatory matters, and is the state's energy office and consumer advocate. Mr. Sedano served as chair of the National Association of State Energy Officials from 1998-2000. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, the ISO-New England Environmental Advisory Group, the investment committee of the Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund, EVermont (an alternative transportation vehicle consortium), and the Energy Team for the City of Montpelier. He was a member of the Task Force on Reliability to the U.S. Secretary of Energy's Advisory Committee from 1997-1998, and a member of the Advisory Committee to the ISO-New England Board of Directors from 1999-2003. Mr. Sedano received his Sc.B. in Engineering from Brown University, and his M.S. in Engineering Management from Drexel University.

Wayne Shirley is a Director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. He served as Commissioner of the New Mexico Public Utility Commission from March 1995 to December 1998, serving as Chairman from August 1995 to December 1998.

While a Commissioner he was a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment and the NARUC Ad Hoc Committee on Electric Industry Restructuring. Prior to serving on the New Mexico PUC, he held a variety of regulatory positions including General Counsel of the New Mexico State Corporation Commission, Director of the Energy Unit of the New Mexico Attorney General's Office, where he was New Mexico's chief consumer advocate, and as attorney for the New Mexico Industrial Energy Consumers.

He has also shared his regulatory expertise with regulators and governments of China, India, the Philippines, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, Mauritius, Poland, Malawi, Ghana, Indonesia, Egypt, Nepal, Bangladesh and Khyrgistan.

He received his J.D. in 1976 from the Southern Methodist University School of Law and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance in 1973 from the University of Texas at Austin.

Frederick Weston is a Director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. From 1989 to 1999, he served as Economist and Hearing Officer at the Vermont Public Service Board. He was Co-Chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Staff Subcommittee to the Committee on Energy Conservation from 1994 to 1997. He also served as Co-Chair of NARUC's Staff Subcommittee on Electric Industry Restructuring in 1996 and 1997. From 1987 to 1989 Mr. Weston worked as an energy and economic consultant for clients in the U.S. and Middle East. He worked for the American International Group in Saudi Arabia from 1981 to 1984. Mr. Weston received his M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1987 and his B.A. in English Literature from Middlebury College in 1979. He also received advanced intensive training in Arabic from the American University in Cairo in 1986.

Peter Bradford is an Associate of The Regulatory Assistance Project. Mr. Bradford is one of the country's most experienced public utility regulators. He was Chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission from June 1987 to January 1995. Mr. Bradford served as president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) in 1987. He chaired the Maine Public Utilities Commission from July 1982 until 1987, and had been Maine's Public Advocate in early 1982. He also served as a member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. During his term, the NRC undertook a major overhaul of its regulatory and enforcement processes in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident. Mr. Bradford currently teaches and consults on regulatory practices and procedures within the United States and abroad. He is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School.

Jim Lazar is an Associate of The Regulatory Assistance Project. Based in Olympia, Washington, he has maintained a consulting practice in electric and natural gas utility ratemaking and resource planning since 1982. His clients have included municipal and cooperative electric utilities, natural gas utilities, regulatory commissions, state consumer advocates, and public interest organizations in the United States, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. He has been a principal author of handbooks and articles on consumer participation in electric utility planning, integrated resource planning, and incentive regulation. He has assisted RAP since 1998, working on projects in the U.S., Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mauritius, Mozambique and Namibia. Mr. Lazar holds a B.A. in Economics from Western Washington University.

About RAP

RAP principals and associates are all experienced utility regulators. All of our Principals are full-time employees of RAP. Our associates each work in their own consulting firms, but have worked with RAP on a continuing basis. Here you may see a short summary of our experience and background.