Daniel Beans new Roseville Electric Utility director

Daniel Beans is the new Roseville Electric Utility director, according to Roseville City Manager Dominick Casey, and will start working there Feb. 7. Roseville Electric Utility serves more than 64,000 customers. He stood out in the Roseville recruitment process for successfully implementing strategic and integrated resource planning, organizational and leadership development, and experience with the technical, regulatory and political aspects of municipal electric utility management and operations, Casey said. Beans is currently the director of Redding Electric Utility, where he has worked since 2005. In 2017, Beans was appointed as the Redding Electric Utility director. He began his career with Redding Electric Utility as an electrical engineer and worked in all aspects of the utility in the years since. Prior to that, Beans worked for more than a decade in engineering firms in the private sector. Beans is also the California Municipal Utilities Association vice president, an American Public Power Association board member and a Balancing Area of Northern California commissioner. "Dan is a leader in the industry and a seasoned municipal leader of an electric utility. His passion for public service and people came across through the process and was inspiring," Casey said. "The perspectives and insights he brings will ensure our staff is able to continue delivering the highest level of service to our community." As Roseville Electric Utility director, Beans will lead an electric utility founded in 1912, one of only 24 municipally-owned utilities in the state. The utility receives ratings significantly higher than the national average from its customers, according to the . National Community Survey. Roseville Energy Park is a 160-megawatt natural-gas fired generation facility that can meet 40 percent of customers' needs, while the remainder of the utility's energy portfolio comes from hydro, wind, solar and geothermal sources. Beans is a registered professional electrical engineer who earned a master's degree in public administration from National University and a bachelor's degree in physics-engineering from Point Loma Nazarene University.