State Policies
Tom Sloan is a recently retired twelve-term veteran of the Kansas Legislature and member of several federal agency and professional legislator organizations’ energy committees. Kristy Hartman and Glen Anderson are Co-Directors of NCSL’s Energy Program.
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is the largest bi-partisan organization serving seven thousand three hundred and eighty-three legislators and more than thirty thousand legislative staff across the fifty states, commonwealths, and territories.
NCSL provides unbiased analysis, tracks state legislation, offers technical assistance, and training, and represents state’s interests on Capitol Hill. To that end, it convenes multiple task forces comprised of legislative leaders from across the country.
Of these task forces, the Energy Supply Task Force is most relevant to utilities and Commissions, given that legislators establish the parameters within which PUCs and utilities operate.
The task force addresses the most important energy issues that legislators are confronting in their states, such as grid modernization, energy markets, critical energy infrastructure, resiliency, utility business models, and distributed energy resources. The task force focuses on the education of legislators by facilitating the exchange of information, lessons learned, and similarities and differences between states along multiple dimensions.