People In Power

“We’re seeing an appreciation by our customers to vary their load, from some of the largest industrial customers to mid-size businesses, cold-storage facilities, many others, where they can shift the times of use of their energy. They like the economic benefits.”

“The western region is 5 to 7 years away from a serious capacity shortfall. The major utility in Montana is predicting a 750-MW shortfall in capacity within 5 or 7 years, unless we come up with additional baseload generation.”

“The water and wastewater utility industry is similar to the gas utility industry. We’ve been successful in core competencies building and operating pressurized pipe, delivering a product underground, and working in a highly-regulated environment.”

“Our collaboration with EPRI has produced great breakthroughs.”

“As the chief strategy and commercial officer for Duke Energy, several of the issues we’re experiencing in the industry are my core responsibilities for our company.”

“The future is electric! Electricity will power our vehicles, our economy, our comforts and our aspirations.”

“EPRI’s sustainability model, platform enabling early detection and assessment of potential wildfires, and advancement of electric vehicle planning tools are transformational.”

“Southern Company has consistently remained one of EPRI’s largest funders because we believe in the power of collaboration and in ‘learning by doing’ to solve the hardest problems.”

Stan Connally, Maria Pope, Lisa Barton, Brian Savoy, and Matthew Ketschke tell us what motivates them to devote the time and energy necessary to play a big role in setting the course at EPRI.

“When FERC issued its NOPR in April, the contributions of the task force were cited more than a dozen times. FERC, and colleagues at the federal level, are interested in our thoughts.”