South Dakota Public Utilities
Kristie Fiegen currently serves as vice chairperson of the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission. She was appointed to the PUC by Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Aug. 9, 2011, to fill a vacancy on the commission. Kristie was then elected to the commission in November 2012. She was re-elected in 2018 and 2024. She is vice chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Committee on Gas and a member of the Subcommittee on Pipeline Safety. Kristie holds leadership positions in the Southwest Power Pool including serving as the past president and current member of the Regional State Committee and current chairperson of the Resource and Energy Assurance Leadership Team, Regional Allocation Review Task Force, and the Improved Resource Availability Task Force, and is a member of the RSC Nominating Committee, Markets+ State Committee and the SPP-RSC Liaison Committee.