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About Us
Bruce
Edelston is the President and Founder of Energy Policy Group, LLC. Bruce
has over 30 years of experience in the energy industry.
 From 2001 to 2008,
Bruce was Director of the department responsible for developing Southern
Company’s positions and testimony on regulatory and policy issues and providing
support for those positions to our Washington lobbyists and operating company
regulatory and legislative representatives. He was actively involved in advocacy
efforts before Congress during the debate and enactment of the Energy Policy
Acts of 2005 and 2007. He was also
actively involved in lobbying and representation before the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, and state regulatory agencies. Some
of the issues Bruce covered included climate change (and
particularly allowance allocation issues), transmission access and pricing,
generation market power, the Public Utility Holding Company Act, and
efficiency and demand-side issues. He also chaired the Rates and Tariffs
group for the SeTrans RTO development effort.
From
1994 to 2001, Bruce held several positions with Georgia Power Company, a
subsidiary of the Southern Company. His responsibilities included tracking
regulatory developments in retail and wholesale competition around the world for
the company and providing strategic advice. Bruce also developed regulatory and
policy strategies for Company for state and federal regulatory and legislative
forums. He was program manager for
FERC filings on Regional Transmission Organizations and related transmission
issues. Bruce also participated as a witness or technical expert in
several state proceedings looking at possible changes to industry
structure. His final position at Georgia Power was as Director of Resource
Planning, where he participated in Georgia Power's Integrated Resource
Planning efforts.
From
1980 to 1994, Bruce worked for the Edison Electric Institute where he held
various positions including Director of Bulk Power Policy. He was
responsible for policy development and the management of economic, financial and
technical research on issues related to electric industry structure and
regulation. Bruce lobbied Congress
and regulatory agencies on behalf of the industry and developed comments
and testimony for rulemakings and hearings. He was responsible for industry structure
issues, including all all transmission access and pricing issues.
Bruce
has additional experience with CRA International, an economics consulting firm,
and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. He is a member of
the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, the Carnegie Mellon Electric Industry
Center Board of Advisors, and recently completed service on the EEI
Electric Delivery Executive Advisory Committee. He has published many
articles and regularly makes presentations on regulatory and policy issues of
interest to the energy industries.
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