Carla Peterman

Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Pacific Gas and Electric

2015 Government Award WInner

Carla Peterman is currently the Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E). She previously was the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs at Southern California Edison (SCE). She was appointed in 2019 by California Governor Newsom to chair the Commission on Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery, which recommended policy changes to incentivize utilities to reduce wildfire risks. Peterman served on the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) from 2012-2018, where she led several CPUC clean energy initiatives, including adoption of the nation’s first utility energy storage mandate, the first framework for energy storage multi-use applications, approval of $965 million of utility investments in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, adoption of utility energy efficiency goals and business plans, and implementation of California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS). She formerly served as a California Energy Commissioner. Peterman holds a PhD in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, a BA in History from Howard University, and an MS and MBA from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.