People

Charles Vinsonhaler: Value is specific to a utility. A company thinks about sustainability value from an internal perspective.

A conversation with Kirk Ellison and Jeffery Preece.

Luiz Cheim: In 15 to 20 years, nobody will do transformer inspections with humans.

Clifton Black: Visualization is a critical component of situational awareness that often does not get the focus and attention it deserves.

A conversation with Patrick Barnett, Mychal Kistler, and Ihab Salet at PPL Electric Utilities.

A conversation with PSEG’s Emmanuel Ansah, Will Barnes, Lauren Biernacki, Julie Duncan, Lisa Garcia, Sal Orsino, and Jared Osorio.

Conversations with top innovators at four utilities – APS, PPL, PSEG, Southern Co., one vendor, and two from EPRI.

Among 43 nominations we selected the most outstanding in ten categories: customer service, distributed resources, energy efficiency, environmental care, infrastructure safety, new technologies, regulatory effectiveness, smart grid, system efficiency, utility culture.

137 qualifying innovators are presented alphabetically by the name of their organization.

Panel discussions included innovative leaders like Ryan Popple of Proterra, a company electrifying the nation’s buses, and James Chen of Rivian, a company electrifying the nation’s sport utility vehicles and light trucks. And supporting companies exhibited at the expo too, like ABB, Accenture, Burns & McDonnell, Itron and Oracle.