Questions about the Aspirations and Economics of the New Jersey Energy Master Plan
With Former Board of Public Utilities President Dianne Solomon and Director of NCEA and Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University Mark Mills

Mark P. Mills
Mark Mills is Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, a distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, contributing editor at the City Journal, faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick school of engineering, and co-founding partner in Montrose Lane, an energy fund. He was formerly the co-founder and chief tech strategist for Digital Power Capital, where co-founded and served as Chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies helping take it public in a 2007 IPO (later purchased by FLIR), and in addition served on numerous Boards, including as Chairman of a lithium battery start-up. And, for seven years prior to an acquisition in 2008 by HP, he was the independent director of EYP Mission Critical Facilities, one of the world’s leading data center design and engineering firms.

He is author of the book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s (Encounter Books), which rose to #1 in Amazon’s business planning & forecasting rankings. He authored, previously: Digital Cathedrals: The Information Infrastructure Era (Encounter Books, 2020), Work In The Age Of Robots (Encounter, 2018), and earlier co-authored with Peter Huber The Bottomless Well (Basic Books, 2015) which rose to #1 in Amazon’s science rankings, and about which Bill Gates said: “This is the only book I’ve ever seen that really explains energy.”

Mark’s online PragerU videos on energy and technology have been viewed over 10 million times. Mills writes frequently for various popular publications, including the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Forbes, City Journal, Real Clear amongst others. He has appeared on many radio and TV news and talk shows including CNN, Fox News, CNBC, PBS, NBC and ABC, and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Mark was earlier a technology advisor for Banc of America Securities, and a co-author of the energy-tech investment newsletter, the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report, published by Forbes and the Gilder Group.

Mark has frequently testified before the U.S. Congress and briefed many State public service commissions and state legislators, as well as serving as an expert witness on energy-economic issues. Earlier, Mark founded and ran an energy technology consulting business serving several hundred clients. He served as a staff consultant to The White House Science Office under President Reagan, the (former) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Department of Energy and several national laboratories. He worked as science advisor for the Atomic Industrial Forum, and spent the week of the accident at the site of Three Mile Island. He co-founded and served as Executive Director of Scientists & Engineers for Secure Energy where he worked with a number of the iconic scientists of the 20th century. Prior to that, Mills was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics, earning several patents for his work at Bell Northern Research (Canada’s Bell Labs) and at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center. He holds a degree in physics from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.



Dianne Solomon
Commissioner Dianne Solomon was nominated by Governor Chris Christie to serve as Commissioner of the Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) on April 17, 2013, and confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on June 27, 2013. She was re-nominated and confirmed in 2017. In her time at the BPU, she served as President and as a member of the Governor’s Cabinet from January 14, 2014, through October 5, 2014. Commissioner Solomon was a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and served as Chair of the Committee on Critical Infrastructure. She also served on the Gas Committee and was selected by NARUC to serve as a representative to the Gas Technology Institute’s Public Interest Advisor Council and as a member of NARUC’s Natural Gas Partnership with the US Department of Energy.

Prior to Commissioner Solomon’s appointment to the NJBPU she served as Commissioner of the South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA), which is responsible for operating the Atlantic City Expressway, Atlantic City Airport and shuttle service in and around South Jersey.

Commissioner Solomon is a graduate of Rider University with a degree in Political Science.

Commissioner Solomon, along with her husband, Lee A. Solomon, a New Jersey Supreme Court Associate Justice, resides in West Berlin, NJ.