Sessions
NCPA Legislative & Regulatory Affairs Committee
3:00 PM - 5:15 PM Wed
Tracey LeBeau is the newly-appointed Administrator and Chief Executive Officer of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA). In this role, LeBeau leads one of the Department of Energy’s four federal Power Marketing Administrations. WAPA markets and delivers low-cost federal hydropower from 57 hydroelectric plants to nearly 700 wholesale customers across its 15-state, 1.4 million-square-mile footprint.
LeBeau has more than 20 years of experience in management, energy development, public-private partnerships, business and organizational start-ups and reorganizations, utility business operations, federal affairs, and energy finance. She has served in executive capacities for numerous energy businesses, including an interstate pipeline, wind development and investment company, energy trading business and other energy development companies. Previously, LeBeau was the Senior Vice President and Desert Southwest regional manager for WAPA, a position she began assumed in May 2020. LeBeau started at WAPA in 2014 as the Transmission Infrastructure Program manager where she oversaw the operations and management of WAPA’s $3.25 billion borrowing authority to support developing critical infrastructure in WAPA’s territory.