Skip to content
Railbelt Reliability Council (RRC)
People ice skating on a frozen lake in Alaska.

Board of Directors & Committees

Board of Directors

The RRC is governed by a 15-member Board of Directors – 13 members are appointed to represent specific stakeholder classes, and two members are non-voting, ex-officio directors representing the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and the Office of the Attorney General’s Regulatory Affairs and Public Advocacy Section. Voting Directors are appointed by named entities or groups of entities that reflect the seat’s stakeholder class, with the exception of the Seat M Independent Member, who is elected by the other Voting Directors. Directors must be drawn from and able to represent the stakeholder class for which they have been appointed.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. Lou Florence

    Board Chair

    Provider – Distribution

    LinkedIn

  2. Andrew McDonnell

    Board Vice-Chair

    Provider – Independent Power Producer

    Bio

  3. Brian Hickey

    Board Treasurer

    Provider – Distribution – Municipal

    LinkedIn

  4. Bill Price

    Board Secretary

    PROVIDER – STATE

    LinkedIn

  5. Allan Rudeck

    Primary Director

    Provider – Integrated – Cooperative

    LinkedIn

  6. Chris Forrest

    Primary Director

    PROVIDER – INTEGRATED – COOPERATIVE

    LinkedIn

  7. David Thomas

    Primary Director

    Provider – Integrated – Cooperative

    LinkedIn

  8. Kim Henkel

    Primary Director

    Provider – Integrated – Cooperative

  9. Brian Hickey

    Primary Director

    Provider – Distribution – Municipal

    LinkedIn

  10. Bill Price

    Primary Director

    PROVIDER – STATE

    LinkedIn

  11. Andrew McDonnell

    Primary Director

    Provider – Independent Power Producer

    Bio

  12. Joel Groves

    Primary Director

    Provider – Independent Power Producer

    LinkedIn

  13. Veri di Suvero

    Primary Director

    Consumer – Residential-Small Commercial

    LinkedIn

  14. Sunil Kumar

    Primary Director

    Consumer – Large Commercial – Industrial

    LinkedIn

  15. Chris Rose

    Primary Director

    Consumer – Environmental Advocacy

    LinkedIn

  16. Alex Baker

    Primary Director

    Independent

    Bio

  17. Claire Knudsen-Latta

    Ex-officio Primary Director

    Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA)

  18. Jeff Waller

    Ex-officio Primary Director

    State Agency for Regulatory Affairs and Public Advocacy (RAPA)

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is a standing Board Committee that provides strategic leadership and governance to ensure all business related to the Board of Directors is completed in a timely, cohesive, efficient, and transparent manner.

  1. Charter
  2. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. Lou Florence

    Chair

    Provider – Distribution

    LinkedIn

  2. Andrew McDonnell

    Vice-Chair

    Provider – Independent Power Producer

    Bio

  3. Brian Hickey

    Member

    Provider – Distribution – Municipal

    LinkedIn

  4. Bill Price

    Member

    PROVIDER – STATE

    LinkedIn

  5. Alex Baker

    Member

    Independent

    Bio

Governance Committee

The Governance Committee is a standing Board Committee that assists the Board of Directors in fulfilling its responsibilities regarding matters that relate to governing of the RRC and recommending Director candidates to the Board.

  1. Charter
  2. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. Sam Dennis

    Chair

    Provider - Independent Power Producers

    LinkedIn

  2. Allan Rudeck

    Member

    Provider – Integrated – Cooperative

    LinkedIn

  3. Chris Forrest

    Member

    PROVIDER – INTEGRATED – COOPERATIVE

    LinkedIn

  4. Julie Estey

    Member

    Provider – Integrated – Cooperative

  5. Jeff Waller

    Member

    State Agency for Regulatory Affairs and Public Advocacy (RAPA)

  6. Lou Florence

    Ex-officio Member

    Provider – Distribution

    LinkedIn

  7. Claire Knudsen-Latta

    Member

    Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA)

  8. Juliet Shepherd

    Member

    Independent

Finance and Audit Committee

The Finance and Audit Committee is a standing Board Committee that assists the Board of Directors in fulfilling its responsibilities relating to the financing, budgeting, and auditing of the RRC.

  1. Charter
  2. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. Brian Hickey

    Chair

    Provider – Distribution – Municipal

    LinkedIn

  2. Sunil Kumar

    Member

    Consumer – Large Commercial – Industrial

    LinkedIn

  3. Veri di Suvero

    Member

    Consumer – Residential-Small Commercial

    LinkedIn

  4. Taylor Crocker

    Member

    Provider – Distribution – Municipal

  5. David Caye

    Member

    Chugach Electric Association

Public Involvement Committee

The Public Involvement Committee is an ad-hoc Board Committee tasked primarily with managing and maintaining the RRC’s public interface and related considerations.

  1. Charter
  2. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. Veri di Suvero

    Chair

    Consumer – Residential-Small Commercial

    LinkedIn

  2. Chris Rose

    Vice-Chair

    Consumer – Environmental Advocacy

    LinkedIn

  3. Julie Estey

    Member

    Provider – Integrated – Cooperative

  4. Trish Baker

    Member

    PROVIDER – INTEGRATED – COOPERATIVE

  5. Christina Harris

    Member

    Kenai Peninsula Ratepayers Alliance

  6. Ashley Bradish

    Member

    Golden Valley Electric Association

Batch 1 Reliability Standards Working Group

This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing a batch of four Reliability Standards: RRC-BAL-003, RRC-BAL-004, RRC-BAL-006, and RRC-INT-006.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

Batch 2 Reliability Standards Working Group

This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing a batch of two Reliability Standards: RRC-VAR-001 and RRC-VAR-002.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

Batch 3 Reliability Standards Working Group

This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing one Reliability Standard: RRC-BAL-005.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

Batch 4 Reliability Standards Working Group

This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing one Reliability Standard: RRC-Reliability Coordinator-001.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

ER3 and ER4 Review Working Group

This Working Group will review the Documents Retention and Access Rule (ER3 and the Confidential Documents and Access Rule (ER4) and recommend revision to streamline implementation of these rule in support of product development.

  1. Meeting Materials
  2. Notice of Intent to Develop

Current Members

  1. Bayunt Ollek

    Manager

    Chief Administrative Officer

    LinkedIn

  2. Daniel Heckman

    Provider – Integrated – Cooperative

    LinkedIn

  3. Matthew Clarkson

    Provider – Integrated – Cooperative

  4. Joel Groves

    Provider – Independent Power Producer

    LinkedIn

  5. Natalie Kiley-Bergen

    Consumer – Residential-Small Commercial

  6. Kevin Aufderheide

    State Agency for Regulatory Affairs and Public Advocacy (RAPA)

  7. Juliet Shepherd

    Independent

RRC-TPL-001 Working Group

This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing the following standard: RRC-TPL-001: Transmission System Performance Requirements

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

CIP Standards Working Group

RRC TAC Working Group dedicated to developing Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standards

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

VRF/VSL Tables Working Group

RRC TAC Working Group dedicated to developing violation risk factors (VRFs) and violation severity levels (VSLs) for each requirement in each standard.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden