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Commissioner Nathan A. Skop
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Commissioner Nathan A. Skop was appointed to the Florida Public Service Commission
by Governor Charlie Crist for a four-year term beginning January 2007.
Commissioner Skop currently serves on the National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners (NARUC) Committee on Consumer Affairs and the Committee on Energy
Resources and the Environment.
Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Skop gained over thirteen years of engineering,
manufacturing, operations, program management, and financial management experience
working for Fortune 500 corporations.
Commissioner Skop began his professional career as a nuclear project engineer with
the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut.
As a member of the Advanced Propulsion Plant Technology Program he participated
in the design, integration and qualification testing of nuclear submarine propulsion
system turbomachinery for the USS SEAWOLF (SSN 21), and participated in the initial
criticality and power range testing of the USS SANTA FE (SSN 763) nuclear submarine
reactor plant.
Commissioner Skop continued his professional career as a specialist engineer with
the Propulsion Systems and Customer Service divisions of the Boeing Commercial Airplane
Group in Seattle, Washington. While serving in these positions he participated in
the design, integration, and test of Engine Build-Up installations for Pratt & Whitney
engines installed on Boeing 777 aircraft, and supported General Electric aircraft
engines installed on Boeing 747, 767, and 777 aircraft.
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Prior to attending law school, Commissioner Skop gained substantial renewable energy
and energy industry experience as a business manager with FPL Energy (an unregulated
subsidiary of FPL Group) through managing nine renewable wind energy projects located
in Altamont Pass, California, and a coal fired co-generation plant located in Stockton,
California.
Commissioner Skop’s extensive power generation experience includes renewable energy
(wind and solar), fossil fuel (combined cycle, gas turbine, co-generation, and coal),
and nuclear power.
Commissioner Skop graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in Aerospace
Engineering in 1991. He later earned an MBA with concentrations in financial management
and investment analysis from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1996, and a JD
from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2006. Commissioner Skop also
holds a graduate level certificate in environmental management from the Hartford
Graduate Center and attended an executive education program focusing on mergers
and acquisitions at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Commissioner Skop is a member of the Florida Bar and recently had a case comment
published in the Journal of Technology Law & Policy for the Levin College of Law
at the University of Florida.
Commissioner Skop was raised in Sanford, Florida. Prior to relocating to Tallahassee
to serve in his current position, Commissioner Skop previously lived in Gainesville
and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
- Contact Information:
Phone: (850) 413-6042
E-mail: commissioner.skop@psc.state.fl.us
- Staff
Bridget M. Grimsley - Chief Advisor to the Commissioner - (850) 413-6028
Mary Macko - Executive Assistant to the Commissioner - (850) 413-6030
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