Strategy & Planning

Tom Fanning: Kim Greene

Georgia Power

“Vogtle is an incredible legacy project for Tom. Southern Company persevered when no other company did. Tom Fanning’s realistic optimism in our ability to get through that project has led us to where we are the only utility in the country bringing online over 2,000 nuclear, clean energy megawatts to serve our customers.”

Tom Fanning: Chris Womack

Owen Young Award

“With all the work he’s led with EEI, on physical security issues as well as storm restoration, the work he’s done on cyber, at the same time pulling the Vogtle project through, and with the technology revolution occurring in our business, he’s continued to stay steady, has been a visionary, and brought us through it all to the other side.”

Co-Creating Energy Solutions with Local Communities

EEI International

A Global Circuit interview with Manitoba Hydro CEO Jay Grewal: “One of the key foundations to being an effective leader is self-awareness. So, what is leadership? You are influencing and impacting people. What is my role? My job is to support every single person in the organization to make their job easier.”

Engineering Cybersecurity

Burns & McDonnell/1898 & Co.

“Nobody wants to touch a 20-year-old server, PLC, HMI or human machine interface, an engineering workstation in operational environment, and allow some computer or automated capability to block it. Putting automated detection and response capabilities in place for critical infrastructure is, for lack of a better term, critical.”

Extraordinary Careers: Branko Terzic

FERC, Wisconsin PSC

“I said, ‘Let’s put them all into one mega-notice of proposed rulemaking and do one large integrated package.’ Out of that came Order 636, which unbundled the natural gas industry, restructured it, introduced new straight variable rate design, capacity release, and packages that made our natural gas pipeline industry more efficient than ever.”

Small Nuclear Getting Big: John Marshall

Potential Energy Coalition

“We have to get our heads around the fact that the world wants new nuclear. Our best communications advice would be that there is breakthrough technology that secures our future. It’s innovative, it’s clean, it’s abundant, it’s advantageous.”