Strategy & Planning

After they left the speaker stage at this major international event, conversations with EDP CEO Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade, CenterPoint Energy executive vice president Gregg Knight, AES EVP and President, US and Global Business Lines Julian Nebreda. Also, an ESG roundtable with FTI Consulting’s Rodolfo Araujo, Christine DiBartolo, Ken Ditzel, and Chris LeWand.

“Collaboration with industry partners, including utilities, is key to our success in climate and sustainability.”

Conversation with Siemens’ vice president and “evangelist” for next generation grid software.

Conversation with Bank of America’s head of U.S. energy and power corporate banking, Nick McKee, and head of ESG advisory and financing solutions, Andrew Karp.

“As their core value states, it’s One Dominion Energy. Because no matter what they’re working on, they’re all on one team.”

Under his leadership, PSEG was recently awarded the Edison Electric Institute’s 2022 Edison Award, which recognized substantial efforts to protect and support customers following Superstorm Sandy.

Good ESG performance might not please everybody.

Innovative Approach to System Reliability: “On the weather-prone outer Cape Cod region of Massachusetts, Eversource developed an innovative solution to deploy a microgrid on a 13-mile circuit with a battery as the sole source of supply. Eversource is a member company of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies.”

“The impact of internal fraud goes beyond dollars, leading to wide-spread reputational harm. Fraud is not a new problem for utilities but is rapidly growing.”

“Utilities have a unique opportunity to make strategic upgrades and investments to address not only concerns around grid resiliency and cybersecurity, but growing social equity concerns and competitive threats on multiple fronts.”