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  Mark Isaacson was born and raised in Auburn, Maine. He left Auburn to attend college and graduated from Yale University in 1976, and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1978. Mr. Isaacson began his activities in the electric industry by becoming a partner in two hydroelectric facilities in Maine – the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River and the Worumbo Dam on the Androscoggin River. Mr. Isaacson directed the complete redevelopment of the Worumbo Dam, increasing its size from less than 1 MW to 19 MW in 1989, and since then has supplied CMP with enough renewable hydroelectric power each year to supply 15,000 homes in Maine. Mr. Isaacson is a founding member of the Independent Energy Producers of Maine and has been actively involved in the all aspects of the restructuring of Maine's electric utility industry.
   
  Dr. Richard Silkman has served on the faculties of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the University of Southern Maine. He is a graduate of Purdue University and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. In 1987, Dr. Silkman was appointed by Governor John R. McKernan, Jr. to direct the Maine State Planning Office. In this capacity, Dr. Silkman served as the chief policy advisor to the Governor on a wide range of issues including economic policy, energy, and electricity and telecommunications regulation. Dr. Silkman is a nationally recognized expert in the regulation of public utilities and energy policy. He has appeared as an expert witness before public utility commissions and a legislative bodies across the country, has provided energy consulting services to a variety of large energy users on matters related to electric utility deregulation and has negotiated special tariffs and contracts at the wholesale and retail levels for electricity and natural gas for a wide range of industrial and commercial clients throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.
   
 

Andrew Price is the Senior Energy Analyst and Program Manager for CES. Mr. Price oversees the analytics department at CES and helps with all aspects of electricity, natural gas, propane and fuel oil operations. Mr. Price is responsible for many of CES’s demand side and green power initiatives. Mr. Price is also a partner and founding member of Beaver Ridge Wind LLC, the company developing a 3 turbine wind power project in the town of Freedom Maine. Beaver Ridge Wind will provide about 12 million kWhs of clean Maine made renewable energy into the power grid each year. Prior to joining CES in 2001, Mr. Price worked for 3 years as a power and fuels consultant at MRW & Associates in Oakland California. Mr. Price earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering, Environmental & Water Studies Program (1997 w/Distinction) from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Physics and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College (1995, summa cum laude). Mr. Price was born and raised in mid-coast Maine and now lives in Portland.