Lisa Barko Meaux 586

Regional Manager in POWER’s Environmental Division responsible for oversight and management of the South Central and Midwest Regions. Lisa Meaux has over 25 years of experience in the electric industry with a detailed, thorough knowledge of the planning, technical, regulatory and managerial aspects of the utility industry. She has an extensive background in siting and routing electrical transmission lines in Texas including applications for Certificates of Convenience and Necessity (CCN) for submission to the Public Utility Commission (PUC) of Texas and across the nation. She has a long history of providing siting and routing strategy support to most of the major electric utilities in Texas, including but not limited to Entergy, American Electric Power, Electric Transmission Texas, LLC, Lower Colorado River Authority, TSC, CenterPoint Energy Electric Houston, CPS Energy, Lone Star Transmission, LLC, South Texas Electric Cooperative, NextEra Electric Transmission, and Texas New Mexico Power. Lisa is skilled at finding cost effective, timely approaches for compliance and coordination with local, state and federal agencies. She has organized and participated in various public involvement programs and has conducted and led the resulting public input analysis and interpretation. She has prepared written and delivered oral expert testimony on behalf of contested linear projects before the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) and the PUC since 2000.