Minnesota PUC
Katie Sieben has served as Chair of the Minnesota PUC since 2019 and been a Commissioner since 2017. She is the Second Vice President of NARUC, serves on several NARUC committees and was the president of the Mid-America Regulatory Conference. Before joining the Commission, she worked in the U.S. Senate and served 14 years as a member of the Minnesota House and Senate.
Michelle Rosier is the Regulatory Analysis Division Manager for the Minnesota PUC with a team of 4 supervisors and more than 30 analysts working on electric, natural gas, and telecommunication utility regulation. She has been with the Commission since 2017 and was previously the Distributed Energy Resource specialist and Economic Analysis Supervisor. She has 25 years’ experience in energy regulation and policy.
Cori Rude-Young is Director of Communications and Public Affairs for the Minnesota PUC, where she leads the agency’s communications and public engagement efforts. She spent more than a decade at the Pollution Control Agency working on environmental regulation issues. She brings nearly 20 years of state government experience communicating complex decisions to the public, press, and stakeholders.
The Minnesota Public Utility Commission (PUC) aims for safe, reliable, and affordable energy for Minnesota customers and a hallmark of achieving those goals is open communication with the public. Better decisions are made when the Commission hears from its citizens and the PUC stresses sharing of thoughts and even includes instructional videos on how to participate on its website.
Minneapolis is where the NARUC Summer Policy Summit is being held July 19 to 22 and provided an opportunity for the PUF team to find out more about the host Commission. Chair Katie Sieben is also NARUC Second Vice President and in line to preside over NARUC.
The PUC opened its doors to PUF, and Commissioners and Staff took time from their busy schedules to discuss priorities, including affordability, electric-gas coordination, transmission, permitting, and more. Enjoy these conversations with Minnesota Chair Katie Sieben, Vice-Chair Joseph Sullivan, Commissioner Audrey Partridge, Commissioner Hwikwon Ham, and Commissioner John Tuma. Plus, the all-important PUC Staff.
PUF: Commissioner Partridge ended on a powerful note about looking past statistical averages to treat affordability as a baseline economic driver for everyone. Chair Sieben, for a state that faces brutal sub-zero winters, those baseline economic drivers are put to the ultimate test when a crisis hits the physical grid.