Rachel Peterson joined the CPUC’s Energy Division as a regulatory analyst in January 2011. Since then, she has served as the lead analyst advising the CPUC’s rulemaking addressing the interconnection of small-scale non-utility-owned power plants to the utility distribution system. In that role, with the CPUC’s General Counsel, Rachel led a multi-party settlement process that accomplished fundamental reforms to the CPUC-approved interconnection tariff, Electric Rule 21. Prior to joining the CPUC, Rachel practiced environmental law as an associate with Morrison & Foerster, LLP, and civil rights law as a litigation attorney with Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid. In her career before law, she was the executive of a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit focused on land use and transportation policy. Rachel holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives with her family in San Francisco.