Brad Banks is an Energy Efficiency Analyst with the Michigan Public Service Commission, Energy Waste Reduction Section and he is the Commission staff lead for the EWR Low Income Workgroup. He has been with the MPSC for 13 years, the last 7 in EWR. He has degrees in English and History from Western Michigan University and is a graduate of the Michigan State Police Training Academy. He worked for 14 years at MSP in commercial vehicle enforcement. He is an avid swimmer and he enjoys running the trails of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. He and his wife live on the Platte River in Benzie County in a cottage they share with two wet dogs.