WASHINGTON — Cheryl LaFleur, acting chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said yesterday she’d like to keep the top job and would use the pulpit to ensure electric markets and infrastructure adapt to a world of renewables, cheap gas and greenhouse gas regulations.

“I would like to be renominated for another term,” LaFleur, whose current term expires in June, said at a press “roundtable” at FERC headquarters. “I’d also like to stay as chairman. Neither of those are up to me… but I’d like to be renominated under any circumstance.”

LaFleur was named acting chair in November with the expiration of former Chairman Jon Wellinghoff’s term and nominee Ron Binz’s flameout.

LaFleur said she had heard nothing from the White House about when President Obama will fill the commission’s fifth seat, or whether she is being considered for chair.

If she remains, she said, she would like to help ensure a smooth transition as the electric generation mix changes.

“We are going through a significant change in power supply in this country, when we look at renewables, when we look at the generational replacement — and that’s before you layer in whatever new carbon regulations come,” she said.

“I’d like to feel at the end of my time that the markets adapted and did what they needed to do for customers — kept the lights on at just and reasonable rates — and that the infrastructure was ready for those changes.

“And that’s quite a piece of work actually, because the infrastructure was built for the old world and not the world we’re moving into.”

Asked about FERC’s long running turf battle with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, LaFleur said she believes the two Memoranda of Understanding signed with the CFTC earlier this month will help clarify jurisdictional questions.

She said legislation to further clarify the lines of authority “would be useful” but added, “I’m not actively on [Capitol] Hill lobbying.”