Electricity boss doesn’t buy Trump’s coal bailout

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John Hughes, the president and CEO of the Electricity Consumers Resource Council, has represented large, industrial users of energy in Washington for more than 30 years. He is retiring from that role at the end of the year and has chosen Devin Hartman from the free-market R Street Institute to lead the trade group. Hughes is steeped in the ins-and-out of dealing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the nation’s electric grid regulator.

Electricity policy is sometimes arcane — some say by design. In the end, it all shows up in the bills each of us pays each month.

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