What Happened?
Lubbock, TX-based Lubbock Power & Light has announced the Resignation of Todd Kimbrough as General Counsel
About the Company
LP&L has served as the city’s municipal electric provider since 1916, when the citizens of Lubbock established LP&L to manage the electric power needs of the city. The utility generates and distributes electricity to more than 100,000 customers in the Lubbock area and is committed to being among the most reliable, most affordable and most respected municipal utilities in the country.
About the Person
Todd Kimbrough brings an extensive legal and economic background, including working directly with the Public Utility Commission, Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and North American Electric Reliability Corporation, according to a LP&L news release. Kimbrough joins LP&L as the Electric Utility Board and staff work to finalize plans to secure a long-term source of reliable wholesale power beyond the 2019 expiration of the utility's current purchase power agreement with Xcel Energy. Kimbrough will play a key role in the implementation of the course of action set to be decided on by January 2014. He will officially begin work with the utility on Sept. 19. Before joining LP&L, Kimbrough worked as a senior economist for the Public Utility Commission and also as a government affairs manager for Green Mountain Energy Company in Austin. He comes to LP&L having just served as interim general counsel for Brighton & Woodchurch of San Antonio, where he specialized in government compliance and contract negotiation. Kimbrough is a business graduate of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and earned a Master of Economics from Texas A&M University before completing a juris doctor degree from the Washington University School of Law. He has also served as Rotary Fellow in the Keynes College at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. Kimbrough has worked on both the state and federal levels. He worked for Troutman Sanders, LLP of Atlanta and Washington, D.C. where he counseled investor-owned utilities in rate case proceedings; advised major utilities in regulatory proceedings regarding the construction of a multi-billion dollar project to build generation; and represented major utilities in resource planning and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission disputes. Kimbrough served as senior attorney for NextEra Energy focusing on transmission, setting state regulatory strategy for the nation's largest owner of renewable energy and defending the company before regulatory agencies.
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