Members of the EmPower Commission, and the energy industry or segment they represent, are:

Jay Schuler - Commissioner of Commerce, Chairman

Wade Boeshans - BNI Coal, ex officio

Jason Bohrer - Lignite Energy Council, transmission

Mark Bring - Otter Tail Power Company, ex officio

Al Christianson - Great River Energy, biomass

Ron Day - Tesoro, refining or gas-processing

Ron Ness - North Dakota Petroleum Council, oil and gas

Dale Niezwaag - Basin Electric Power Cooperative, generation and transmission electric coops

Mark Nisbet - Xcel Energy, wind

Claude Richard - Farmer, agriculture

Mike Rud - North Dakota Petroleum Marketers Association, petroleum marketers

Randy Schneider - North Dakota Ethanol Producer's Association, ethanol

Jay Skabo - Montana Dakota Utilities, investor owned utilities

David Straley - North American Coal Corporation, lignite coal

Sandi Tabor - Kadrmas, Lee & Jackson, ex officio

Julie Voeck - Next Era Energy, ex officio