The Switch Episode 5: From Energy Policy to Keeping the Lights On With Chris Hansen
By EPE Team
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What changes when you move from shaping energy policy to being responsible for actually keeping the lights on?
In this episode of The Switch, Julieta Giraldez speaks with Chris Hansen, Chief Executive Officer of La Plata Electric Association and former Colorado state senator, about making that transition. From setting long-term policy goals to running a utility where reliability, affordability, resilience, and community priorities have to come together every day.
Chris shares how La Plata Electric is navigating a major transformation of its own, from taking greater control of its power supply and joining a regional electricity market to rethinking what a utility should be in a world where customers have more energy choices. The conversation explores wildfire and extreme-weather risk, local accountability, new technologies, and why the utility of the future may need to think less like a traditional electricity provider and more like an energy services company.
The views expressed in this podcast are solely those of the host/guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any agency or company.
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