The Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) announced that Governor Jared Polis has reappointed current PUC Chair Eric Blank for a second four-year term, effective Jan.12, 2025. Blank was first appointed PUC Chairman for a four-year term in January 2021. His reappointment is now subject to confirmation by the state legislature.
“Serving as PUC Chair has been a tremendous honor, and I am excited for the opportunity for another term to continue our work on behalf of Coloradans,” said PUC Chair Eric Blank. “I want to thank the Governor, the PUC Staff and my fellow Commissioners for their expertise, hard work and dedication to the Commission.”
“The PUC’s mission is to protect consumers across the industries we regulate whether that be towing, pipelines, rail or utilities,” said PUC Director Rebecca White. “Chair Blank is devoted to this mission and will continue to move us forward at a critical time in the transition to clean energy.”
Blank, a lawyer and economist, has worked on electric utility and clean energy issues for over 40 years in a diverse range of entrepreneurial, business, and non-profit settings. Blank co-founded a pioneering national renewable energy development company that helped to commercialize the first wind and then later solar technologies by building some of the earliest and largest clean energy projects outside of California.
Blank spent most of the 1990s leading the energy work of a non-profit clean energy group, now called Western Resource Advocates, that helped develop some of the first policies that made utility clean energy investments initially feasible and ultimately cost-effective. Prior to that, Blank was a consultant preparing utility capacity expansion and dispatch modeling studies.