PUF Southeast CFO Roundtable, Part 2
Duke Energy, Southern Co., Dominion
With Steve Young of Duke Energy, Art Beattie of Southern Co., and Mark McGettrick of Dominion.
Strategy & Planning
Coffee Break: Edison International's CEO Pedro Pizarro
‘You have to help define where is it okay to have failure, where is it not okay.’
Pizarro describes EI's experiences prioritizing innovation, embedding an innovation culture, and the lessons learned.
Coffee Break: Southern Company's CEO Tom Fanning
‘Southern Company is the only company in our industry that does robust, proprietary research and development.’
Fanning describes how he built innovation, how to get organizations to change, and maintaining momentum.
Coffee Break: Exelon's CEO Chris Crane
‘You must dedicate your own time to supporting innovation. You also need to say when to shut a project down.’
Crane describes how Exelon approaches innovation both from a broad perspective, and in more narrow terms.
Coffee Break: Ameren's CEO Warner Baxter
‘We converted an old garage and turned it into an innovation workspace, the Hub.’
Baxter describes how Ameren established a strong foundation for innovation without making radical changes to incentives, and how companies become more self-sufficient in their innovation.
Coffee Break: AEP's CEO Nick Akins
‘AEP can bring technological solutions for smart cities to other areas of the country.’
Akins describes why more focus was placed on innovation, how to invent a culture of innovation for the long term, and how to get incentives properly lined up.
PUF CEO Coffee Break Interviews on Innovation
Unleashing the Power of Ideas
Strategy& and PUF were joined by five CEOs for a ‘virtual’ roundtable.
Pioneers Forever
Humanity's Drive to Achieve More
Like the Wrights' Flyers, electric energy was novel but not particularly relevant in the early days.
Public Utilities Fortnightly Quant Services
Monthly Summary Report: July 2017
We track quantitatively the monthly trends in the value of electricity, the grid's carbon footprint, and the grid's integration of distributed and intermittent generation.
Considerations for New Utility Business Model
Public Interest Comes First
A business model should maximize the long-term welfare of utility customers.