Deputy General Counsel, Maine Public Utilities CommissionMr. Cohen has been with the Maine Public Utilities Commissionfor more than 27 years.  He is assigned to the Electricity and Gas Division and over the years has specialized in rate plans, rate cases, service quality and reliability issues, reorganizations and transmission planning cases.  Before coming to the Commission, Mr. Cohen worked at Idaho Legal Aid Services.  He is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island (B.S. ’76) and Boston College Law School (J.D. ’79).  Mr. Cohen was appointed to be the Commission’s Deputy General Counsel in March of 2016.

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Mr. Harwood is Co-Chair of Verrill Dana’s Energy Practice Group and has devoted most of his 38-year career to representing public utilities before state and federal regulatory agencies.  He has represented electric, gas, water and telecommunications companies in more than 60 major cases before the Maine Public Utilities Commission and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, including rate cases, prudence investigations, management audits, merger approvals, requests for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity, and rule making proceedings.  Mr. Harwood counsels utilities on proactive strategies to both anticipate regulatory developments and efficiently manage the regulatory process.  Mr. Harwood has Seminar Information been extensively involved in traditional rate setting issues, including CWIP in rate base, attrition, accounting orders and cost of capital.  He has negotiated long-term alternative rate plans which include automatic inflation adjustments, service quality penalties, and recovery of mandated or exogenous costs.  Mr. Harwood has also represented developers of new transmission lines in securing Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity and wind developers in negotiating Interconnection Agreements and securing adequate transmission capacity for delivery of the output.  Mr. Harwood has served as Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law, teaching utility regulation and administrative law.

Roach Hewitt Ruprecht Sanchez & Bischoff, P.C.During more than 20 years of practice, Mr. Hewitt has earned a reputation as one of the most highly regarded energy and public utility attorneys in New England.  He represents participants in the natural gas, electric, telecommunications and water industries in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire on a broad array of commercial and regulatory matters.  In the regulatory arena, Mr. Hewitt has handled nearly every type of public utility proceeding, including reorganizations, management investigations, rate and rate design proceedings, service territory disputes, CPCN proceedings, infrastructure expansion and gas safety matters.  He works closely with clients to understand their business and regulatory objectives, and he develops creative strategies designed to achieve the client’s goals within the regulatory framework.  Mr. Hewitt also represents clients in transactional matters involving the purchase and sale of energy and related products in wholesale and retail markets, including long-term contracts designed to promote state energy and environmental policies.  An engineer before pursuing the law, Mr. Hewitt understands the complexities of utility distribution systems and leverages that knowledge when advocating on his client’s behalf.

General Counsel of the Maine Public Utilities CommissionMr. Tannenbaum has been an attorney with the Maine Public Utilities Commission for more than 25 years and has experience in a variety of utility and energy market issues.  These include work on: utility rate, rate design and alternative rate plan proceedings; adjudications and rulemakings to implement electric industry restructuring; competitive solicitations for electricity supply, such as standard offer service; renewable energy promotional programs; and natural gas pipeline expansion matters.  Mr. Tannenbaum served as Deputy General Counsel from 2002 through 2014 and is currently the General Counsel of the Maine Public Utilities Commission.