One-on-One with South Carolina PSC Veteran Butch Howard
Call Him Commissioner Butch
“People need to stay focused that one of the purposes of the stimulus is to help pay utility bills, which is an essential service.”
Strategy & Planning
Diversity: Ron Evans and John Olander of Burns & McDonnell
Utilities Workforce and Spend
“We’re hiring a lot of new graduate engineers and the college campuses are more diverse. If we can’t onboard them and include them as part of our team then we’re going to fail.”
Diversity: Johnny Howze of Southern Company
Utilities Workforce and Spend
“It’s important that our company reflects the customers that we serve.”
Diversity: Bridget Reidy of Exelon
Utilities Workforce and Spend
“Exelon has expanded this program to evaluate the diversity performance of firms providing banking, insurance, and legal services.”
Diversity: Kevin Bryant of Evergy
Utilities Workforce and Spend
“The pressure on cost efficiencies is real. Part of the value of diversity is we’re bringing in a lot of folks to help us think about how we reimagine our business moving forward.”
Diversity: Crystal Ross-Smith of Ameren
Utilities Workforce and Spend
“When you have a diverse group of people, you have a diverse mindset, and innovative thinkers, and somebody who will bring something to the table that you may not have thought of.”
Diversity: Paula Glover
Utilities Workforce and Spend
“For our Association, and with my team, I’ve been sharing with them that it’s important for us to be more creative than we normally would be in in this pandemic. Let’s think way outside the box.”
Diversity in Utilities Workforce and Spend 2020
Fortnightly Annual Feature
Ask any leader in the utilities industry, and they will tell you how important utilities workforce and spend are to the success of their company.
Coronavirus Challenge: Brien Sheahan
A Special Report
These financial headwinds will impede the progress of infrastructure modernization, and the buildout and integration of renewables, and other capital-intensive initiatives.
Coronavirus Challenge: Scott Aaronson
A Special Report
We’re literally writing the book on the COVID-19 response. There is a resource guide that is being developed. We’re writing it in real time. It’s updated on a weekly basis.