Mr. Brew is a Principal in Brickfield, Burchette, Ritts & Stone. He represents the firm's industrial, rural electric cooperative and municipal electric clients in electric restructuring matters and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proceedings, including those relating to FERC's open access transmission orders (Nos. 888 and 889), independent system operators and market power abuses. He has negotiated customer specific power rates for large industrial energy users, economic incentives and other matters relating to the siting of new manufacturing facilities, and has represented large customers in state energy related regulatory proceedings. He also represents investor groups in divestiture and generation assets sales matters.
Form 1979 to April 1995, Mr. Brew served as a staff attorney with the New York State Public Service Commission. For several years prior to his departure, he was he agency's Managing Attorney for Energy Policy and Federal Affairs. He had oversight or lead counsel responsibility for New York Public Service Commission proceedings and activities covering restructuring and competition in the electric industry, retail access, power pooling, capacity bidding, transmission services, resource planning, and energy efficiency programs. Previously, as a staff attorney, he was responsible for the agency's investigations into the cost of the Shoreham and Nine Mile Point Unit 2 nuclear power plants.
Mr. Brew is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Georgetown University Law Center. He is also the author of "Moving Toward More Effective Rate Making Incentives," The Electricity Journal, Dec. 1992.