(Photo of Stephen M. DeFrank Provided with Release Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release in Harrisburg yesterday from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, their chairman, Stephen M. DeFrank has been elected Vice President of the Organization of PJM States, Inc. or OPSI. OPSI represents the interests of makers of public policy that are collective throughout the PJM Interconnection, one of the largest regional transmission operators in the world, which manages the wholesale power markets and the high-voltage electric grid serving over sixty-five million people across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. DeFrank previously served on the OPSI Board of Directors and is also an active member of several other regional and national organizations which are focused on reliability of energy, infrastructure, and affordability for consumers:  including the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Board of Directors, NARUC’s Committee on Gas, and the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners (MACRUC) Board of Directors.