UTC Commissioner Rendahl named NARUC president

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LACEY, Wash. - Ann Rendahl, commissioner with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC), was elected president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) at the group's annual conference in Seattle this week.

Rendahl has been a commissioner with the UTC since 2014. She is an active member of NARUC, serving on the association's Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Committees on Water and Critical Infrastructure, and previously chaired the Committee on Electricity. She said she is honored to lead the association over the next year and to work with state regulators across the country with a theme of uniting regulators and harmonizing NARUC's impact to ensure safe, reliable, and affordable utility service for all customers. Rendahl added that the work of state commissioners is complex and demanding, and NARUC provides the guidance, training, and fellowship commissioners need.

Rendahl is also a member of the Southwest Power Pool Markets+ States Committee and previously served on the Body of State Regulators for the California Independent System Operator's (ISO) Energy Imbalance Market. She is an advisory council member for the Electric Power Research Institute, the Center for Public Utilities at New Mexico State University, and the University of Missouri's Financial Research Institute.

Before she was appointed commissioner, Rendahl gained a deep understanding of utility and transportation regulation as an assistant attorney general, administrative law judge, director of administrative law, and director of policy and legislation for the UTC.

Rendahl graduated from Wellesley College and earned a master's degree in public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her law degree from UC Law San Francisco.

The UTC regulates the rates and services of investor-owned electric utilities, telecommunications companies, natural gas and water companies, solid waste collection companies, household-goods movers and passenger transportation companies, commercial ferries, pipeline companies, marine pilotage, and a low-level radioactive waste repository. The commission does not regulate the rates of broadband services, cellular, cable, or Internet service.

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