John Reynolds, Commissioner

Commissioner John Reynolds was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) by Governor Gavin Newsom on Dec. 23, 2021, and reappointed on Dec. 22, 2022.

Commissioner Reynolds has experience in both the public and private sector as an attorney and policy advisor in the energy, telecommunications, transportation, and water industries.

Commissioner Reynolds earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, and a juris doctor degree from the University of California, San Francisco College of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Commissioner Reynolds has led proceedings covering topics including:

• PG&E general rate case 2023-2026
• Allocating legacy energy portfolio costs between bundled customers and departing customers (PCIA)
• Analyzing and quantifying risk-related decisions by energy utilities (S-MAP/RDF)
• Implement cost recovery for energy procurement (ERRA)
• Demand response
• Telecom carrier of last resort rules
• Santa Nella investigation: directed PG&E to build infrastructure to provide energy service to a disadvantaged community at risk of losing gas service, with a household-level option to electrify
• PG&E 2023 WEMA: consideration of $1.6B in wildfire safety-related expenses
• Renewables portfolio standard
• PG&E $760 million application for billing system modernization
• Verizon-Frontier acquisition
• Biomethane
• Water consolidations

NARUC: Energy Resources and the Environment committee, International Relations subcommittee, 2025 Demand Roundtable

Other:

• Financial Research Institute board member
• Advisory board member for National Utilities Diversity Council
• Interagency working groups on reliability, offshore wind, SB100
• Enterprise for Youth’s climate career advisor