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Consumer Advocate asks for extra $220,000 to hire engineers and temporary technical staff for utility cases
Summary
Robert Williams, director of the Consumer Advocate Division, asked the Senate Finance Committee to approve an improved budget to recruit engineers and temporary technical staff and to maintain a consultant budget that supports participation in complex utility rate cases.
Robert Williams, director of the Public Service Commission’s Consumer Advocate Division, told the Senate Finance Committee the division is funded by a portion of the PSC’s assessment and is seeking an improvement request to strengthen technical capacity.
“We are an independent part from the PSC. We actually advocate in front of the Public Service Commission,” Williams said, describing the division’s participation at PJM and in proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. Williams said the…
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