Extraordinary Careers: Branko Terzic
FERC, Wisconsin PSC
Branko Terzic
Fortnightly Magazine – May 2023
Successful and storied careers are fascinating and the lives of the people who lived them are the ones we all want to know more about. Branko Terzic is known to most who are part of Public Utilities Fortnightly’s community. Listen in on what he said about his accomplishments and the future of this amazing industry.
PUF’s Steve Mitnick: In your career, and as a Wisconsin Commissioner, look back.
Branko Terzic: I was appointed to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission in 1981 after a raucous public hearing, since I had ten years of public utility consulting experience, one year of which I was an employee of a utility, Wisconsin Electric Power.
The rest of the time, I was a consultant outside of Wisconsin. At the time of my appointment, I had my own firm and about a dozen Wisconsin municipal water and electric systems as clients, subject to state regulation.
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The Honorable Branko Terzic is a former Commissioner on the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and State of Wisconsin Public Service Commission, in addition to energy industry experience was a US Army Reserve Foreign Area Officer ( FAO) for Eastern Europe (1979-1990). He hold a BS Engineering and honorary Doctor of Sciences in Engineering (h.c.) both from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.