Doug Scott, the man who became one of the architects of the state’s landmark energy reform policy known as the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, will be a key player in implementing the law he helped create.
Doug Scott stands for a photograph in the hearing room at the Illinois Commerce Commission offices in downtown Chicago.
Scott previously served as a Democratic state representative, the mayor of Rockford and the head of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. He even had a prior stint as chairman of the ICC, having been appointed by then-Gov. Pat Quinn in 2011. He left four years later after Quinn lost his reelection bid to Republican Bruce Rauner.
“It is no exaggeration to say that CEJA would not have happened without Doug Scott,” Mitchell said in an interview with Capitol News Illinois, noting Scott was “there from the beginning.” “The old ways of negotiating energy legislation are over,” Pritzker said in his 2020 State of the State address. “It’s time to put consumers and climate first.”
“It helps to understand not just the pieces that we have to do at the ICC, but how those pieces fit into the overall legislation and what it’s trying to accomplish,” Scott said. “I think it’s given me, obviously, a lot more perspective than you almost ever get in any similar situation.” “The fact that there’s so much going on at once, I like that pace,” Scott said. “I think it’s pretty exciting to be doing that.”
Beyond these cases, Scott and other recently appointed commissioners will likely oversee other key components of the continued rollout of CEJA, according to Sarah Moskowitz, director of the Citizens Utility Board, a nonprofit created by the state legislature that represents consumer interests before the ICC.
As of 2022, the ICC chair received a $144,000 annual salary, compared to a $125,790 salary for the other four commissioners, according to a December 2022 report from the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. Reddick said his decision-making process isn’t driven by specific issues, but that his objectives are “process-focused and based largely on my experience in commission cases.”
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