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The Utility Policy & Management Community is an emerging professional community for individuals and institutions working across essential utility and infrastructure systems, including electricity, water, wastewater, stormwater, natural gas, broadband, telecommunications, and related public services.
Being developed across APPAM, ASPA, PMRA, and NASPAA, the community brings together scholars, practitioners, policymakers, regulators, public managers, utility professionals, educators, students, nonprofit leaders, and community partners interested in the public policy and public management challenges shaping essential services.
MISSION
MISSION
To connect individuals and institutions engaged in utility policy and management, advancing research, practice, and professional exchange on essential utility and infrastructure systems.
VISION
VISION
To establish utility policy and management as a visible, connected, and impactful field of scholarship and practice within the host institutions and beyond.
POTENTIAL HOSTS
POTENTIAL HOSTS
Utility P&M is being developed as a possible multi-association professional community with alignment across public policy, public administration, public management, and public affairs education networks.
EXPRESSIONS OF SUPPORT
EXPRESSIONS OF SUPPORT
We gratefully acknowledge organizations that have expressed interest in, support for, or willingness to remain engaged with the development of this emerging community. Listings do not necessarily imply formal endorsement unless specifically stated.
WHY UTILITY POLICY & MANAGEMENT MATTERS
WHY UTILITY POLICY & MANAGEMENT MATTERS
Utility systems are foundational to everyday life. They shape affordability, reliability, public health, environmental sustainability, economic development, community resilience, digital access, and quality of life.
As these systems face rapid change, including energy transition, climate adaptation, infrastructure modernization, technological innovation, cybersecurity risks, affordability pressures, and growing equity concerns, there is a growing need for sustained dialogue across research, policy, regulation, management, and practice.
Utility P&M responds to this need by creating a shared professional space for people working across disciplines, sectors, institutions, and infrastructure domains.
WHAT THE COMMUNITY DOES
WHAT THE COMMUNITY DOES
Utility P&M supports professional connection, knowledge exchange, and field-building through research discussions, policy dialogue, practitioner engagement, webinars, conference activities, mentoring, resource sharing, newsletters, member spotlights, job and opportunity postings, and collaborative programming.
The community is designed to help connect people who may work on similar utility and infrastructure challenges but are often located in different professional associations, academic fields, policy areas, regulatory settings, public agencies, utilities, nonprofit organizations, and community contexts.
WHO WE SERVE
WHO WE SERVE
Utility P&M welcomes individuals and institutions working across:
Essential Utility and Infrastructure Systems
Essential Utility and Infrastructure Systems
Electricity, water, wastewater, stormwater, natural gas, broadband, telecommunications, and related public service systems.
Policy and Management Challenges
Policy and Management Challenges
Governance, regulation, affordability, reliability, resilience, sustainability, equity, finance, planning, implementation, innovation, and institutional performance.
Academic and Professional Fields
Academic and Professional Fields
Public administration, public policy, public management, planning, law, economics, engineering, environmental studies, nonprofit leadership, and related disciplines.
Research, Practice, and Public Service Roles
Research, Practice, and Public Service Roles
Scholars, students, educators, practitioners, regulators, policymakers, public managers, utility professionals, consultants, nonprofit leaders, advocates, and community partners.
JOIN OR CONNECT
JOIN OR CONNECT
We warmly invite interested scholars, practitioners, regulators, policymakers, public managers, utility professionals, nonprofit leaders, educators, students, and community partners to join the Utility Policy & Management Community.
Join us to receive updates, participate in events, share opportunities, suggest programming ideas, and help shape a professional home for utility policy and management.
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