Peterman to Join Southern California Edison, Powell and Anderson Named to Newly Created Senior Executive Posts
August 23 2019 - 4:10PM
Business Wire
Southern California Edison has named former California Public
Utilities Commission (CPUC) member Carla Peterman as its new senior
vice president of Regulatory Affairs, effective Oct. 1. Effective
Sept. 2, Steven Powell, currently senior vice president, Strategy,
Planning and Operational Performance, will assume the newly created
position of executive vice president, Operations, and Jill
Anderson, currently vice president of Customer Programs and
Services, will take the new position of senior vice president of
Strategic Planning and Power Supply.
All three will report to SCE President and CEO Kevin Payne.
Peterman brings to SCE a distinguished career in public service,
having served a six-year term on the commission from 2013-2018. She
led several commission clean-energy initiatives, including the
adoption of the nation’s first electric utility energy storage
mandate, approval of $965 million of utility investments in
electric vehicle charging infrastructure, adoption of utility
energy-efficiency goals and the continued implementation of
California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard.
Before her CPUC appointment, Peterman served on the California
Energy Commission (CEC), where she was the lead commissioner for
renewables, transportation, natural gas and the 2012 Integrated
Energy Policy Report. She also is a former board member of The
Utility Reform Network, an organization that represents consumers
before the CPUC and California Legislature.
She was appointed earlier this year by Gov. Newsom to chair the
Commission on Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery, which played
a critical role in developing recommendations that led to passage
of legislation that holds utilities accountable for reducing
wildfire risks from their equipment and encourages a financially
stable electric industry.
At SCE, Peterman will be responsible at the national and state
levels for the company’s Regulatory Affairs and Energy and
Environmental Policy organizations.
As a former state official, under the Political Reform Act,
Peterman will be restricted from lobbying at the CPUC through the
remainder of the year and is prohibited permanently from advising
SCE on any regulatory proceedings that she participated in at the
commission.
Peterman holds a Doctor of Philosophy in energy and resources
from the University of California, Berkeley. She also earned a
Master of Science and Master of Business Administration from Oxford
University, where she was a Rhodes scholar. She holds a Bachelor of
Arts from Howard University.
“I have been privileged in my work in state government to help
develop programs that advance sustainable energy,” said Peterman.
“At SCE, I’ll be committed to working with regulators to help
California continue to lead the nation in this and other areas
vital to Californians’ well-being. It’s important that all
communities benefit as we harness technology to reduce pollution,
promote safety and bring other benefits to businesses and
consumers.”
“I worked with Carla throughout her public service roles in the
Brown administration. She has been at the forefront of developing
programs that are essential to achieving the state’s goals for a
clean-energy economy while ensuring that all Californians can
participate in these programs,” said Robert Weisenmiller, former
CEC chairman. “In her new position, she will play a leadership role
in ensuring these programs are implemented effectively and
developing new initiatives to address our changing climate and
bring their benefits to every neighborhood and citizen of the
state.”
“Not only does Carla bring SCE a deep energy policy background,
we also look to her experience to help ensure that our dealings
with regulatory agencies are done with the transparency and
integrity that are essential to serving the public interest,” said
Pedro J. Pizarro, president and CEO of SCE’s parent company, Edison
International.
As executive vice president, Operations, Powell will direct
SCE’s Transmission and Distribution, Customer Service, and Safety,
Security and Business Resiliency functions, among other duties.
He joined the company in 2000 and has held executive positions
at both Edison International and SCE. He received a Master of
Business Administration from the Anderson School of Management at
the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Bachelor of
Science in chemical engineering from UCLA.
As senior vice president of Strategic Planning and Power Supply,
Anderson will be responsible for SCE’s Energy Procurement and
Management, Power Generation, Strategic Planning, and Environmental
Planning and Strategy organizations.
She joined SCE in January 2018, having previously served as
executive vice president and chief commercial officer at the New
York Power Authority. She received a Master of Business
Administration from New York University and a Bachelor of Science
in mechanical engineering from Boston University.
“With his background in business strategy and planning at both
Edison International and SCE, Steve is well positioned to continue
sharpening our focus on operational quality and execution,” said
Payne. “Jill’s new position will ensure that the integrated
planning we do to support California’s clean-energy transformation
is aligned with our dispatch and procurement of generation
resources.”
About Southern California Edison
An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California
Edison is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, serving a
population of approximately 15 million via 5 million customer
accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central,
Coastal and Southern California.
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