People In Power

“We always start with the customer and find ways to enhance that experience through the cloud. Utilities look to the cloud because they can quickly spin up resources as they need them and only pay for what is used, similar to a pay-as-you-go model.”

“We’ve made investments to ensure our reliability is essentially top quartile and, in some instances, top decile, for example as we have at ComEd. We know the grid is ready to accept levels of electrification.”

Conversations with Exelon Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer Sunny Elebua, Amazon Web Services Head of Worldwide Business Development – Energy and Utilities Rolf Gibbels, EDP Renewables North America CEO Sandhya Ganapathy, at CERAWeek by S&P Global.

“Though it’s a small percentage of the norm, we must strengthen the grid to plan for those extreme cases, which in the past we never had to do. This is a paradigm shift for the industry.”

Conversation with Arizona Public Service VP of Transmission and Distribution Operations Tony Tewelis and Smart Electric Power Alliance CEO Sheri Givens.

Conversation with Veterans in Energy President and Southern Company’s Cassandra Wheeler.

“Uri showed us there were two big vulnerabilities in our grid. First, vulnerability to extreme weather events. And second, resource adequacy over longer periods of time.”

“Because of my experience at NERC, I view so many of the issues that we have at FERC now through the prism of reliability and resilience.”

PUF’s Selected Excerpts of Presentations by EEI’s Tom Kuhn, Brian Wolff, Emily Fisher, Phil Moeller, and Richard McMahon.

“What’s unique about Exelon is we serve urban dense areas, as well as rural America. Think about the coastal and rural areas in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware. With ComEd, the northern part of its Illinois territory, Rockford, DeKalb.”