Marc Spitzer
Commissioner, FERC
Marc Spitzer was confirmed to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 2005. Commissioner Spitzer
believes the FERC’s primary missions are to ensure that America’s
ratepayers have safe, economic and reliable supplies of electricity
and natural gas; and transparent, robust and competitive wholesale
energy markets.
Prior to his appointment, Spitzer served as
Chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), where he
focused on policies encouraging expansion of natural gas
infrastructure, specifically distribution and storage; creating a
demand side management policy; enhancing the ACC’s renewables
standard; and advancing consumer privacy concerns in
telecommunications.
Spitzer graduated from Dickinson College
in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, then attended the University of Michigan,
School of Law. As an attorney since 1982, Commissioner Spitzer
represented taxpayers in proceedings involving the Internal Revenue
Service and served in the Arizona legislature.