Idaho PUC: Diane Hanian and Adam Rush

Commission Secretary, Public Information Officer

The teleconference system’s a priority that’s got a lot of potential, especially with our audio video system that they built into our main hearing room.

Idaho PUC: Maria Barratt-Riley

Executive Director

With the Teams and the cloud functioning, people if they wanted to would be able to use other devices. They didn’t have to take home their desktops, but most did.

Idaho PUC: Terri Carlock

Administrator – Electricity and Economics

Being the Administrator of the Utilities Division, they allow me to switch hats and separate these duties. Once I start answering questions for the Commissioners, I no longer am advocating for Staff.

Idaho PUC: Kristine Raper

Commissioner

By statute, the attorneys for the PUC are assigned to us through the Attorney General’s Office. The intent was for them to have autonomy to tell us you’re going down the wrong road.

Idaho PUC: Eric Anderson

Commissioner

When you’re doing a public service, there’s nothing closer to the public than being a Commissioner, because you determine what the rates are going to be.

Utility Workforce: Rich Meisinger

Business Manager, IBEW Local 111

Half of the control room operators had been exposed to COVID at one of their power plants. We only have four, so there were two left. For two weeks, those two lived at the plant, so it had 24-hour coverage.

Utility Workforce: Kris Anderson

IBEW Third District Representative

On Christmas Eve there was a big outage and we got the wires hung, we closed the fuse in and saw all the Christmas lights pop on. I know it meant a lot to those folks.