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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Power Marketing Liaison post at the Department of Energy has been filled with the appointment of Bob Porter as manager. In this role, Porter will represent Southeastern, Southwestern and Western Area power administrations at the Department of Energy and coordinate PMA activities with other agencies and industry groups.

 He replaces Tim Meeks, who was recently selected as the chief of Western's Program Support Office in Lakewood, Colo.

 The three power marketing administrations, serving a 27-state area, market power produced at Federal hydropower plants to wholesale customers including rural electric cooperatives, municipalities and Federal and state agencies. Annual sales for the three PMAs amount to more than 60 billion kilowatthours of power with associated revenues of more than $1.2 billion. The three PMAs' Southeastern, Southwestern and Western are based in Elberton, Ga.; Tulsa, Okla.; and Lakewood, Colo., respectively.

 Porter began his Federal career in the U.S. Navy. He served a short stint with the Federal Energy Administration and later joined Bonneville Power Administration in 1980 as a public utility specialist. He moved to Western in 1985 and held a series of successively more challenging public utility specialist positions in the Upper Great Plains regional office. Porter's most recently served as a power marketing specialist on the liaison office staff representing Southeastern and Southwestern power administrations.

 He earned a bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and  an MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He and Ruth Ann, his wife, have five children.