People

Being a lineman in the field, you’re one of the more valuable people in the economy in the U.S., as they are considered an essential occupation and stayed working during the lockdown.

While we suspend our daily schedules, the utility workforce goes all out.

“It’s been a fluid situation and we’ve learned a lot on how statewide shelter-in-place orders impact each customer class as we’ve gone through April.”

“ I spend a lot of time with other technology companies seeking partnerships for new technologies we can deploy.”

“We’ve formed an LLC with another co-op in Southwest Oklahoma called NuEra Energy Services to look at ways of capturing non-traditional revenue, doing some shared services.”

“That’s part of the joy of being in project management in this field. You have a real product at the end of the day, a three-dimensional reality that fills you with enormous pride.”

“This is the last of the MISO MVP projects in the Midwest. That’s another unique aspect. There were 17 projects approved.”

“I enjoy bringing stakeholders together or inspiring stakeholders to evaluate hot topics.”

“That team is fully staffed, working through the restoration efforts in Mississippi, southern Arkansas, and northern Louisiana where we had severe weather. They’re doing a great job while maintaining all practices we put in place for the COVID-19 pandemic.”

“Together we designed a model that best represented Mexico’s energy system. Then we worked with CFE on exploring issues such as Mexico’s clean energy policy of fifty percent renewable generation by 2050.”