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Anthony W. Buxton
is an attorney with Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau,
Pachios and Haley and serves as Chair of the firm's Energy and
Utilities Practice Group. Mr. Buxton was born and raised in
Readfield and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1968. He served
as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army after college. He directed
U.S. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell's 1974 gubernatorial
campaign. He earned his law degree at Franklin Pierce Law Center
in New Hampshire in 1978. Mr. Buxton has been listed in Woodward/White's
The Best Lawyers in America since 1982. Mr. Buxton has represented
large industrial and commercial users of electricity in Maine
for about 20 years. During this time, he has negotiated dozens
of special electricity supply contracts on behalf of his clients.
In addition, he has been actively involved in the establishment
of programs to promote energy conservation and was a primary
drafter of the law that restructured Maine's electricity industry.
Mr. Buxton has most recently been active at the regional level
to ensure that the rules and operating procedures governing
the wholesale market for electricity in New England provide
real economic benefits to consumers. As a result of his efforts,
consumers are now represented for the first time on the governing
body of NEPOOL.
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
moved to Maine in 1983 from New York, where he was on the faculty of the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, to accept a position
on the faculty at 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.
Jon F. Sorenson joined Competitive Energy Services in April 2003, in an effort
to expand the firm's reach to Canada and the Natural Gas markets- where he has secured
and managed numerous gas supply clients. In a short period of time, CES has become the
primary natural gas consultant in the province of New Brunswick, and is expanding its
services into the Province of Nova Scotia. Previously, Mr. Sorenson provided retail
marketing/business development, regulatory, and strategic services for WPS Energy Services,
Inc. In this role, he was responsible for developing and managing natural gas operations
in New Brunswick, Canada- making WPS the first licensed marketer, and currently the largest
retail and wholesale marketer, providing natural gas in the Province. In addition, Mr.
Sorenson assisted WPS in marketing power and natural gas in the State of Maine- focusing
on strategic issues both at the regional and corporate levels.
Mr. Sorenson was an original executive officer (CMO) for SmartEnergy, Inc., a mass-market
energy services company providing electricity and natural gas service to clients in
New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. He is currently on the Board of Directors
for the New Brunswick Natural Gas Association, is a working member of the Maritimes
and Northeast Tolls and Tariff Work Group, and has been on the Board of Directors for
for E-Energy, an emerging technology and transactional-based company in the natural
gas industry.
Andrew Price serves as both Program Manager and Energy Analyst for CES and
CETX. His projects include performing "data" based energy audits to
identify energy efficiency opportunities, negotiating with natural gas
suppliers to secure savings off tariff-based rates, and participation in
all aspects of the cogeneration and demand-side management product and
services design and implementation process. Mr. Price also performs
detailed feasibility studies for combined heat and power systems,
advises clients on renewable energy procurement options, and operates
the firm's Load Response program. The Load Response Program is an
innovative and successful initiative that rewards customers for reducing
electrical use during periods of peak demand in New England with minimal
customer effort. Mr. Price's credits also include aiding in
interventions and writing expert witness testimony in complex PUC and
FERC proceedings, including: general rate cases, stranded costs, rate
unbundling, asset divestiture, and transmission line loss.
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).
Matt Thayer joined CES in July 2005 as Business Development and Account Manager.
Mr. Thayer assists business and institutional clients in Maine with their energy needs.
Prior to joining CES, Mr. Thayer served as communications director for the
Maine Public Utilities Commission, a position in which he designed a series
of highly successful energy market seminars and other initiatives to assist
business and institutional consumers in navigating Maine’s competitive energy
markets. He also previously served as Director of the Consumer Assistance
Division at the Maine Public Utilities Commission, a position in which he
helped to write many of the consumer protection and supplier licensing rules
governing Maine’s competitive electricity market. Mr. Thayer also served as
divisional controller for the machinery and electronics groups of a major
international trading company headquartered in New York City and Tokyo, Japan.
Mr. Thayer holds a Master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University in
Providence, Rhode Island.
Mr. Thayer is a native of Connecticut who was raised in Falmouth, Maine.
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