Chairman Ron Binz
Ron Binz was appointed as Chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission by Governor Bill Ritter in January 2007.
Ron is the Chair of the Task Force on Climate Policy of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). He serves on NARUC’s Energy Resources and Environment Committee and the International Relations Committee. He is the President of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners and serves as a NARUC representative on the Advisory Council to the Board of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Ron is also a member of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group.
Prior to his appointment, Ron was President of Public Policy Consulting, a consultancy specializing in policy and regulatory issues in the telecommunications and energy industries. Ron also served until 2003 as President of the Competition Policy Institute (CPI), in Washington, D.C., a non-profit “consumer think tank” dedicated to bringing competition to telecommunications and energy markets in ways that benefit consumers.
For eleven years, until 1995, Ron directed the Colorado Office of Consumer Counsel, the state's utility consumer advocate. He was President of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA) and chaired the group's Telecommunications Committee.
On behalf of NASUCA, CPI and NARUC, Chairman Binz has testified before Congressional committees sixteen times.
Ron served as the Co-Chair of the North American Numbering Council which advises the Federal Communications Commission on telephone numbering policies and served on the FCC’s Network Reliability Council.
Ron received a B.A. in Philosophy from St. Louis University in 1971 and an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Colorado in 1977. He also completed course work for a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Colorado.
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