Strategy & Planning

“These factors are creating a monumental challenge for utilities to develop strategies to recruit and retain employees today, and to create a pipeline of next generation workers with the knowledge, skills, and training needed to build and operate a grid for the future.”

“Working with our contracted architects and design teams, my design hinged upon the information I brought back from my trips overseas. We knew, if they could do it again, this is what they would have done.”

This is the story of the formation of the Consolidated Edison Company of New York up to the beginning of the electric age, in commemoration of the company’s bicentennial.

“Despite significant differences between the U.S. and Denmark, there is much we can learn from the Danish energy system and its emphasis on public-private partnerships.”

“It is important to get customers to adopt these technologies and then enroll in the programs that utilities want and need them to.”

“The impact on our employees is evident. People are having conversations and are asking questions. I’ve had employees call me and say, ‘I want to understand this topic better.’”

“We looked at the number of HBCU graduates we have working at Southern Company and created a Southern Company HBCU Alumni Network to support inclusion efforts through engagement with our employees and our HBCUs.”

Conversations with Southern Company’s Jonathan Porter, Alabama Power Senior Vice President for Customer Operations, and Eversource Energy’s Theresa Hopkins-Staten, Vice President for Corporate Citizenship and Equity, with consultant Larry Glover.

“Allowing a Chair of the Subcommittee on Education and Research to develop expertise and nurture relationships over the course of three years is critical to NARUC’s mission of providing top-notch education to its members.”

“I’ve always said take advantage of the resources that are readily available to you. That’s why you have an organization like MACRUC, a regional organization, but you have the national organization, NARUC.”