State Commissions
Lori Burkhart is Editor in Chief of Public Utilities Fortnightly.
The New York State Capitol in Albany, the seat of New York State Government, is part of the grand Empire State Complex on State Street in Capitol Park. Although holding numerous important buildings over ninety-eight acres, to those in the energy and utilities profession, the place of note, is Agency Building 3, which houses the New York Public Service Commission and New York Department of Public Service.
It is a busy place, overseeing a mandate in New York's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, to cut greenhouse gas emissions forty percent by 2030 and no less than eighty-five percent by 2050 from 1990 levels. All that, while carrying on its regulatory business in the public interest.
The five hundred-plus dedicated Staff of the New York Department of Public Service are up to all these tasks. They are the Staff arm of the seven-member New York Public Service Commission. The DPS is under the leadership of CEO Rory Christian. He also is Chair of the New York PSC.
Public Utilities Fortnightly's Editor-In-Chief did a mid-January visit to the twentieth floor of Agency Building 3 to discuss this important work and more with Staff and six Commissioners. Listen in. [Editor's note: Commissioner Diane Burman was unavailable.]
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