"It is a privilege to lead Georgia Power’s Community Resiliency. We are all in -- fully committed to working with our partners and across industry to support and initiate programs that will have long-lasting, and positive impacts on the communities we serve."
- Kristy Rachal
Kristy Rachal leads Georgia Power’s Community Resilience Office, where she is building a first-of-its-kind statewide initiative to address energy affordability in the communities Georgia Power serves. Kristy and her team work across sectors — connecting philanthropic capital, community-based organizations, local contractors, and government partners — to ensure that low-to-moderate income households have access to the home repairs, energy efficiency upgrades, and resilience infrastructure they need to thrive. Her approach sequences pre-weatherization home repair, weatherization, energy efficiency programs, and resilience hubs into a single, cohesive customer journey.
Kristy brings a rare combination of legal acumen, regulatory experience, and deep community roots to this work. Her background as an attorney, combined with two decades of building cross-sector partnerships across Georgia, makes her uniquely effective at navigating the complex funding, policy, and relationship landscape that community resilience work requires. She is known for convening the right people around difficult problems and turning those conversations into action.
Before joining Georgia Power, Kristy served as Division Director of the Consumers’ Utility Counsel Division of the Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs, where she represented Georgia’s 3 million small business and residential customers in utility proceedings and proposed the initial structure for the state’s natural gas Provider of Last Resort program.
In the community, Kristy currently serves on the boards of Atlanta Ballet and YWCA Greater Atlanta. She previously served on the boards of Council for Quality Growth, Park Pride (where she chaired the board and led its $12.8M capital campaign, the largest in the organization’s history), Georgia Economic Developers Association, Georgia Academy for Economic Development, CREW Atlanta, Atlanta Science Festival, Georgia CASA, Georgia City Solutions, and VOX Teen Communications.
Kristy holds a law degree from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor of Arts from Spelman College. She is a graduate of the Urban Land Institute’s Center for Leadership, CREW Atlanta’s Leadership Class, the Regional Leadership Institute, and Leadership Georgia.
