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Article: BPU President Fox, NJ's POWERHOUSE
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- New Jersey Business
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright New Jersey Business & Industry Association Nov 01, 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Jeanne M. Fox, president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, has had quite a year - deregulation of the electricity market, removal of the statemandated electric rate caps on August 1, increasing electric and natural gas rates, an expanded commission to five members, a blackout and hurricane Isabel.
Fox, a 50-year-old New Brunswick lawyer whose first job after graduating from Rutgers Law School was as a BPU regulatory officer in 1981, knows the industry better than virtually anyone. She is the only former BPU staffer to be named a commissioner or the president. When she took over the BPU presidency a year and a half ago, she had stunning credentials as Deputy Commissioner and ...