Strategy & Planning

Southern California Edison: SPEED - System Planning Evaluation and Execution Dashboard

Top Innovators

“SPEED is orders of magnitude faster than any system available. It’s also the depth. We forecast and analyze, hour by hour, the structural and transformer levels for ten-plus years.”

Byline:

Lesia Bilitchenko, Lawrence Yonathan, Jerome Marr, Chandra Gosai, Lawrence Yonathan, John Lee, Lesia Bilitchenko

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Portland General Electric: AI-Powered Purchase Order Audit Bot

Top Innovators

“The solution we delivered is an AI-powered purchase order Audit Bot. It automates review of our procurement transactions to ensure they align with our negotiated contract rates, terms, and system process in terms of efficiency around the end-to-end life cycle.”

Byline:

Doug Lazar, Veda Dharmala, Manoj Kumar, Thana Anderson

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LUMA Energy: Customer Battery Energy Sharing

Top Innovators

“When we call an event, participants can either disconnect from the grid and use their own stored power, or they can push power back into the system. In both cases, it reduces the strain on the grid and helps to prevent outages.”

Byline:

Juan Carlos Patiño and David Cruz

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Exelon: AI at the Edge for Drone Autonomous Inspections

Top Innovators

“What took days or weeks to inspect and analyze can now be done in near real-time, dramatically improving reliability and safety for our customers and field teams. This work sets a new standard for our industry.”

Byline:

Ankush Agarwal, Blake Alexander, Andy McCauley

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Consolidated Edison: The SmartCharge New York Residential Managed Charging Program Relaunch

Top Innovators

“Knowing that the program made EV ownership a little more accessible and affordable was a source of pride, and collaborating with a passionate, diverse team made the journey even more meaningful.”

Byline:

Amelia Berman

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Fortnightly Top Innovators 2025

Awards

“These remarkable teams and leaders reflect every dimension of our industry’s transformation. Each award honors an innovator whose historic achievements continue to inspire today’s breakthroughs. Their stories, and those of this year’s winners remind us that progress in energy is always powered by imagination and collaboration.”

Byline:

PUF

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Let There Be Light

NARUC

“We have increased sponsorships this year. I’m honored to say that with the help of great Staff and support from the overall industry communities, we’ve broken every sponsorship record in NARUC history.”

Byline:

Tricia Pridemore with Paul Kjellander

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State Utility Regulation: Chair Steve DeFrank

Pennsylvania PUC

“We have a new set of customers who are struggling with affordability issues, and that is something we’re noticing here. That’s a big issue we’re dealing with, and when large new loads are tied to that equation, affordability becomes even more complex.”

Byline:

Steve DeFrank with Paul Kjellander

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State Utility Regulation: Chair Letha Tawney

Oregon PUC

“There is no realistic way to interconnect larger numbers of generators of any fuel type or move that power around the Northwest without Bonneville Power Administration’s partnership, system growth, and investments. There’s no way to accommodate the growth without that partnership.”

Byline:

Letha Tawney with Paul Kjellander

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State Utility Regulation: Chair Gabriel Aguilera

New Mexico PRC

“New Mexico still has zero-carbon and renewable portfolio standards. Utilities and regulators need to abide by those laws regardless of uncertainty occurring beyond New Mexico.”

Byline:

Gabriel Aguilera with Paul Kjellander

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