Law & Lawyers

N. Dakota PSC: Commissioner Randy Christmann

Commissioner

“One of the issues I campaigned on was my background with coal reclamation and my desire to make sure we have something similar in place for wind farms. We have 4,000 MW of wind in North Dakota. Someday, those need to be cleaned up too.”

Top Innovators: Genevieve Shiroma, Leuwam Tesfai, Forest Kaser

California PUC

The Microgrids and Resiliency Team develops and executes regulations, tariffs, and programs for microgrids to enhance resiliency of the electric grid and reduce barriers for microgrid deployment. Their work has streamlined the interconnection process to ease customer burdens for microgrid installation while maintaining the safety of customers and utility workers, and empowered local and tribal governments looking to leverage microgrids as part of their resiliency planning.

N. Dakota PSC: Public Utilities Division

Director & Analyst

“In the last legislative session, the legislature did a lot of work with carbon capture and storage. We just had an application for a pipeline to move the carbon dioxide from where it’s being produced and gathered to a storage facility. We permitted that one.”

Top Innovators: Eric Coene, Ron Kent, Matt Gregori

Southern California Gas

The Gas Research, Development, and Demonstration Program Team develops and demonstrates products and technologies that promote decarbonization across the natural gas value chain and a diversified portfolio of clean energy sources, distributed networks, tools, and applications.