LANSING – Valerie Brader, Governor Rick Snyder?s top aide on energy matters, will lead the new Michigan Agency for Energy that Snyder is creating to coordinate the state?s energy programs.
Snyder, in issuing an executive order Wednesday setting up the new agency, announced Brader, currently a deputy legal counsel and senior policy advisor specializing in energy issues, would head the agency.
Additionally, Snyder?s executive order, which takes effect in 60 days unless rejected by the House and Senate, spells out details on the new agency Snyder first announced two months ago in his State of the State address.
Several offices and functions in state government related to energy will transfer to the new agency, including the Retired Engineers Technical Assistance Program and Air Policy director from the Department of Environmental Quality; the Michigan Energy Office from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Michigan Strategic Fund; and the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs? Energy Advisory Committee authorities.
However, notably the Public Service Commission will operate autonomously from the agency and is not part of the reorganization.
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