The NPUC was formed in mid to late 2020 out of a series of conversations where public utilities were looking to speak with their industry brethren to benchmark decarbonization practices, share lessons learned across different geographic and socio-economic environments, and generally come to a place where a compendium of knowledge was stored on the subject. It was likely that there would not be any one specific utility that would have the bandwidth to take the lead in organizing this type of forum, so Motive Power took on the initiative and the NPUC was born.