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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Spring 2008
1994 grad shares energy expertise
Kevin B. Cronin, 1994, assistant general counsel to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, writes that he attended the Eastern Regulators Regional Association fall meetings held in Tallinn, Estonia, during September. On behalf of U.S. Agency for International Development, he participated in three days of bilingual meetings and discussions with regulators, public policy advisors, and senior technical staff from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Turkey, discussing regulatory audit systems, electric tariffs, and related electric regulatory issues.
He adds that, previously on behalf of U.S. AID, he served in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as an independent energy consultant to the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission, the Southeast Asian nation’s new regulatory body established to serve approximately 150 million people. He consulted and advised the commissioners and staff about sound utility regulatory practices, administrative rules and regulations, open meetings, public and administrative hearings, licensing for electric generation, docketing, public records, ethics, and code of conduct matters. Cronin organized, counseled, and implemented the first public administrative hearing held in the legal history of Bangladesh.
Finally, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy, he served in Manila as an independent energy consultant to the Republic of the Philippines’ Department of Energy and Philippine Energy Regulatory Commission. He assisted the country’s energy department and regulatory commission and private industry representatives design and develop the Philippine’s new natural gas industry, providing public policy, economic, and administrative and legal services. He testified before the Energy Committee of the Philippine’s House of Representatives.