NARUC
Tricia Pridemore is NARUC President and a Commissioner at the Georgia Public Service Commission.
In 2023, NARUC President Julie Fedorchak established the Gas-Electric Alignment for Reliability task force. GEAR is comprised of a representative from each portion of the gas generation for electricity value chain and seven state Commissioners. After two years, and hundreds of hours of meetings and negotiations, GEAR has wrapped up its work.
The Chair of the GEAR task force, NARUC President Tricia Pridemore, talked about the journey and gave details on their report that was released at the 2025 NARUC Annual Meeting. The report is, “National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Task Force on Gas-Electric Alignment for Reliability: Report & Recommendations.” Excerpted here are her introductory remarks.
Commissioner Tricia Pridemore: GEAR was founded by past President Julie Fedorchak with the idea of having some operational and technically challenging, salient ways for us to solve this challenge. And when she first asked me to do it, I laughed and I was like, “You didn’t have that problem. I don’t have that problem.”
Then I started to understand that my situation in Georgia is very different than most of the country. And so Julie put together an all-star group of folks to be appointed to GEAR.