NARUC
Tricia Pridemore is NARUC President and a Commissioner at the Georgia Public Service Commission. Paul Kjellander is PUF Senior Advisor and former Idaho PUC Chair.
NARUC President Tricia Pridemore chose the 2025 theme of “Let There be Light,” as homage to the nation needing more generation to serve data centers, manufacturing, and other sources of new energy demand. Georgia Commissioner Pridemore, who hails from a background in the software business, understands the demand that is coming from artificial intelligence and data centers.
At the three NARUC meetings throughout 2025 she promised to hold a Demand Roundtable, when some of the nation’s largest companies with major electricity needs would sit with State Commissioners and leaders at utilities and Regional Transmission Organizations. The first open communication forum was held at the NARUC Winter Summit at the end of February in Washington, D.C., with the goal of the series being to help State Commissioners better understand the large-scale, projected energy load requests coming to their states.
The Demand Roundtable is composed of approximately twenty-one rotating participants, with seven State Commissioners, seven utilities/RTOs/ISOs, and seven mega-users. Here, Pridemore discusses the importance of the event with Public Utilities Fortnightly’s Paul Kjellander.
PUF’s Paul Kjellander: Talk about the new opportunity you’ve created for state utility regulators to deal with concerns over growing demand.