Enforcement director nominated for Ferc chair
Norman Bay, the Washington, DC-based director of the office of enforcement at the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc), was nominated as chairman of the agency on January 30 by president Barack Obama.
Bay is the second nominee put forward by the White House for the vacancy at Ferc. Ron Binz, a former chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, withdrew his nomination in October last year, after some US senators scorned his alleged bias against coal.
Bay has served as director
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