Connection, collaboration, regulation
Rachel Bryant is Executive Editor of Public Utilities Fortnightly.
As I step into this role, I keep thinking about how often people say our industry struggles to tell its own story. Utility regulation is more complex and more consequential than ever, and when we get deep into the details, it’s easy to forget that there are real people behind every decision. And more often than not, we’re all working toward the same broader outcomes.
When Steve Mitnick passed the proverbial (and literal) baton to me at the last NARUC meeting in Seattle, I knew I had big shoes to fill. Steve shaped PUF into a trusted space for serious, thoughtful discussion about our industry. My goal isn’t to change what makes this magazine valuable, but to make sure it continues to serve the people doing this work as the industry evolves.
That’s why NARUC’s theme this year, “Uniting Regulators and Harmonizing Impact,” feels right. The issues Commissions are working through, whether reliability, affordability, infrastructure investment, or integrating new resources, don’t fit neatly into a single proceeding or even a single jurisdiction. They overlap. They move quickly. And they’re most often solved when we learn from one another and share what we’ve seen.