Best Practices in Gas Regulation
Arielle Swett is a Senior Program Officer for NARUC International Programs. She works on NARUC’s energy regulatory partnerships with foreign regulatory partners in the Asia Pacific and Lower Mekong regions, as well Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dave Bloom is a Program Manager for NARUC International Programs, leading NARUC’s energy regulatory partnerships with foreign regulatory partners in Central Asia and the Asia Pacific.
Marisa Lewis is a Communications Specialist for NARUC International Programs, where she develops written and visual content that conveys the impact of NARUC’s work to support real improvements in the quality and effectiveness of regulation around the world.
As an implementer of development assistance under the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the past two decades, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) works with its volunteer members from state Public Service Commissions and NARUC's wider network of energy sector professionals to share peer-to-peer best practices in utility regulation with foreign counterparts around the world.
In the spirit of U.S. and international public service, NARUC's unique international programs send U.S. utility regulatory experts to foreign countries to present technical, policy, and economic best practices in niche energy regulatory issues faced by energy regulators throughout Asia, Africa, Eurasia, and Latin America.
NARUC members dedicate their pro bono time and expertise throughout weeks of technical preparation, culminating in long journeys across the world to present at NARUC's workshops in respective partnership countries.
With that said, what happens when a global pandemic brings travel to a halt and temporarily suspends all scheduled in-person peer-to-peer activities? NARUC's international programs and its Commission volunteers have been working to forge a new path and keep these assistance programs running, as the pandemic's implications for international service engagements pose new challenges to a program model with crucial roots in peer-to-peer engagement and face-to-face discussion.