Martha guzman aceves biography
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PUF's Steve Mitnick: How did your career lead you to become a commissioner?
Martha Guzman Aceves:I worked in the governor's office and was part of the legislative team.
I was a legislative advisor on energy and environment for almost six years there. Then I was asked to serve on the commission, and I said yes.
PUF: Do you specialize on certain issues? Or do you just take them as they come?
Guzman Aceves: It's less specialized by industry than it was historically. Historically, there was a commissioner for water, a commissioner for communications. I think the president has tried to be a little more egalitarian about the issue areas.
PUF: So, you could go from natural gas one day to cost allocation for electric the next day?
Martha Guzman Aceves: Yes. I think not the next day, but maybe every couple of years. Right now, I manage a lot of the issues dealing with some of the procurement. We call these recovery accounts. They're huge. They're basically eight billion-dollar accounts where the utilities are reporting on their procurement.
We call those ERRA accounts, they're energy recovery accounts.
PUF: Is it a matter of buying energy?
Martha Guzman Aceves: Not only that. It's a big topic. That's a good chunk of it, though.
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Martha Guzman Aceves
Commissioner
California Public Utilities Commission
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Energy Seminar: Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves, CPUC
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Low-income and disadvantaged communities face significant barriers to the adoption and deployment of distributed generation technologies, from low homeownership rates to difficulty in securing financing. Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves will discuss how the California Public Utilities Commission has been addressing equity in distributed generation policies and programs. She will touch on equity in Solar Access Programs, San Joaquin Valley Electrification Pilots, Microgrids, and long-term Distributed Energy Resource Planning; and she will discuss the challenges that cut across these diverse policies approaches.
Speaker bio
Martha Guzman Aceves was appointed Commissioner at the CPUC by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. on Dec. 28, 2016. Her portfolio includes issues related to distributed energy, fiscal oversight of utilities, broadband access, water affordability and conservation, increasing access to clean energy programs for Disadvantaged Communities, and preventing disconnections of basic utilities. Commissioner Guzman Aceves serves as co-chair of the Emerging Trends Committee, and is one o