Corporate Services
British Columbia UC
A conversation with Executive Director of Corporate Services Viki Vourlis Fisher, Manager of Human Resources and Procurement Administrator Sheena Zyp, and Sr. Systems Architect, IT Luke Thompson.
The States
Executive Directors
British Columbia UC
“We’re dealing with issues that can impact availability and reliability of energy such as environmental attributes like wildfires, emergency preparedness, resiliency, cybersecurity, and safety.”
Deputy Chair and Commissioners
British Columbia UC
A conversation with Deputy Chair Anna Fung and Commissioners Carolann Brewer, Blair Lockhart, Karen Keilty and Bernard Magnan.
Dave Morton, Chair and CEO, and Ian Jarvis, COO
British Columbia UC
“We have eleven Commissioners, five of which are full time.”
A Day at the British Columbia Utilities Commission, Metaphorically
Unique Conversations
The Commission is mostly still working from home, and under Chair and CEO Dave Morton, now under a matrix work environment.
Alberta Commission Chair Retires and Reflects on Regulatory Career
State Commissioners
A conversation with Mark Kolesar, retired Chair, Alberta Utilities Commission, moderated by Ahmad Faruqui of The Brattle Group
Idaho PUC: Don Howell
Former Chief Deputy Attorney General
The General Counsel has to feel comfortable in that they have to tell the Commissioner sometimes bad news or what the law is in certain areas.
Idaho PUC: Marsha Smith
Former Commissioner and NARUC President
Staff is critically important, because Commissioners have to decide on a number of issues spanning all of the utilities, and Staff can be specialized and concentrate.
Idaho PUC: Diane Hanian and Adam Rush
Commission Secretary, Public Information Officer
The teleconference system’s a priority that’s got a lot of potential, especially with our audio video system that they built into our main hearing room.
Idaho PUC: Maria Barratt-Riley
Executive Director
With the Teams and the cloud functioning, people if they wanted to would be able to use other devices. They didn’t have to take home their desktops, but most did.