At WGA’s Annual Meeting this afternoon, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham officially passed the WGA Chair’s gavel to Utah Governor Spencer Cox.
Governor Cox will assume the role of WGA Chair for the next year, with Hawaii Governor Josh Green elected to serve as Vice Chair.
Upon receiving the gavel from Governor Lujan Grisham, Governor Cox announced that his year-long Chair’s initiative will focus on ways to meet the growing demand for energy in the West.
Titled “Energy Superabundance: Unlocking Prosperity in the West,” Governor Cox’s initiative will examine challenges and opportunities for expanding production, modernizing transmission, and supporting advanced generation technologies, with the objective to build the backbone of a more reliable, affordable, and secure grid.
“Governor Lujan Grisham has been a tremendous Chair, showing real leadership in uniting us around addressing the housing crisis,” said Governor Cox. “Our new focus on energy is bold—and urgently needed. It’s been nearly 50 years since we’ve had this kind of moment: rising demand, available capital, and the political will to build. And that’s exactly what we intend to do.”
See more about Governor Cox’s new initiative here.
