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Carla Peterman
President, PG&E Corporation, and Executive Vice President, Customer & Corporate Affairs
Carla J. Peterman is President, PG&E Corporation and Executive Vice President, Customer & Corporate Affairs.
Peterman has spent her career focused on California's energy sector and policy landscape. As an enterprise leader at PG&E, she oversees the company's customer experience, community engagement and sustainability goals, regulatory and rates strategy, legislative priorities, and communications, focused on long-term strategic impact to deliver for the customers and communities that PG&E serves.
Previously, Peterman served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer, leading legislative and regulatory affairs, charitable giving and sustainability.
Prior to joining PG&E in 2021, Peterman served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs at Southern California Edison. Before that she served a six-year term as a Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and served as a California Energy Commissioner.
A steadfast proponent of clean energy, at the CPUC Peterman led the adoption of the first utility energy storage mandate in the country, the approval of nearly $1 billion of utility investments in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, the adoption of utility energy efficiency goals and business plans, and the implementation of California's Renewables Portfolio Standard.
In 2019, Governor Newsom appointed her to chair the Commission on Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery. She currently serves as a board member of the California Academy of Sciences, the Golden State Community Foundation, and the Bay Area Council. She has served on various boards, including the Federal Reserve of San Francisco Economic Advisory Council, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), NARUC's Energy Resources and Environment Committee (Vice-Chair), The Utility Reform Network, and the external advisory board for Sandia National Laboratories' Energy and Homeland Security Portfolio.
Peterman holds a BA from Howard University, a PhD in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and MS and MBA degrees from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
Peterman has spent her career focused on California's energy sector and policy landscape. As an enterprise leader at PG&E, she oversees the company's customer experience, community engagement and sustainability goals, regulatory and rates strategy, legislative priorities, and communications, focused on long-term strategic impact to deliver for the customers and communities that PG&E serves.
Previously, Peterman served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer, leading legislative and regulatory affairs, charitable giving and sustainability.
Prior to joining PG&E in 2021, Peterman served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs at Southern California Edison. Before that she served a six-year term as a Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and served as a California Energy Commissioner.
A steadfast proponent of clean energy, at the CPUC Peterman led the adoption of the first utility energy storage mandate in the country, the approval of nearly $1 billion of utility investments in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, the adoption of utility energy efficiency goals and business plans, and the implementation of California's Renewables Portfolio Standard.
In 2019, Governor Newsom appointed her to chair the Commission on Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery. She currently serves as a board member of the California Academy of Sciences, the Golden State Community Foundation, and the Bay Area Council. She has served on various boards, including the Federal Reserve of San Francisco Economic Advisory Council, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), NARUC's Energy Resources and Environment Committee (Vice-Chair), The Utility Reform Network, and the external advisory board for Sandia National Laboratories' Energy and Homeland Security Portfolio.
Peterman holds a BA from Howard University, a PhD in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and MS and MBA degrees from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.