Arkansas Public Service commissioner Kim O’Guinn to hitch Southwest Energy Pool
Little Rock-based regional transmission group Southwest Energy Pool (SPP) has named Kim O’Guinn to be the director of state regulatory coverage. O’Guinn is a commissioner of the Arkansas Public Service Fee (PSC).
In response to a Tuesday (Dec. 20) information launch, O’Guinn will lead SPP’s state regulatory coverage efforts and help the corporate’s work on regional transmission group coverage points, interacting with an array of stakeholder teams and organizations. Her final day on the Public Service Fee will probably be Jan. 7. Her first day at SPP will probably be Jan. 9.
“SPP is thrilled to welcome Kim to our workforce,” mentioned Paul Suskie, SPP govt vp of regulatory coverage. “As a former president of the Regional State Committee (RSC), Kim could be very acquainted with SPP, and her expertise as a nationally revered commissioner is a good asset to the group.”
The RSC is a part of SPP’s governance and includes utility regulators from 15 states.
O’Guinn is an environmental engineer with greater than 20 years of regulatory expertise within the utility trade. In 2016, Gov. Asa Hutchinson appointed her to the Arkansas Public Service Fee.
“I’m very excited to be part of the SPP workforce,” mentioned O’Guinn. “My profession has been devoted to regulatory points, which supplied me a chance to work with SPP and its stakeholders throughout my tenure on the PSC. I stay up for working with a tremendous workforce of individuals.”
Earlier than her PSC position, she was the Arkansas Division of Environmental High quality’s director of communication and allow engineer on the Arkansas Division of Environmental High quality’s Workplace of Air.
She’s held management roles with Entergy Regional State Committee, the Group of MISO States, SPP’s RSC, the Nationwide Affiliation of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the Electrical Energy Analysis Institute Advisory Council, Ladies’s Basis of Arkansas, the American Affiliation of Blacks in Vitality and Arkansas Ladies in Energy. She earned a Bachelor of Science in environmental engineering from the College of Oklahoma.
