Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday expanded the Public Utility Commission beyond its traditional three-person membership by appointing Clean Line Energy Partners co-founder Jimmy Glotfelty as its fourth commissioner.

Glotfelty, managing director for ICF Consulting (NASDAQ:ICFI), was selected to a term that expires Sept. 1, 2025.

State lawmakers passed legislation earlier this year that increased the PUC to five members, one of several bills in response to ERCOT’s near collapse in February. The commission has regulatory oversight of the grid operator.

Senate Bill 2154 expanded the PUC from three members to five and only requires two commissioners to be “well informed and qualified in the field of public utilities and utility regulation.” Glotfelty brings a solid industry background to the position, unlike Chair Peter Lake and Commissioner Will McAdams, who came to the commission from other sectors. He and Mike Skelly founded Clean Line, and he was director of government solutions for Quanta Services.

Glotfelty also directed the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution and was a senior policy adviser to Secretary Spencer Abraham during the George W. Bush administration. He chaired the American Wind Energy Association’s Transmission Committee and was a member of the White House Task Force to Streamline Energy Permitting, also during the second Bush administration.

Prior to his federal service, he served as director of energy policy for Bush when he was governor of Texas.

Also on Friday, Abbott appointed Arch “Beaver” Aplin III as his representative on the ERCOT board selection committee, which will select the eight independent board directors, a result of another piece of legislation passed this year. The new law replaces market participants with the new directors, who must be Texas residents, and are selected by the state’s key legislators.

The board is to be seated by Sept. 1, though not all the positions are likely to be filled by then.

Aplin is CEO of the popular Buc-ee’s convenience store chain and chair of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick last month selected G. Brint Ryan as his representative on the three-person committee. Ryan is the founder and CEO of his eponymous global tax consulting firm.

House Speaker Dade Phelan has the third pick for the committee, but he has yet to announce it.