Duquesne Light
Elizabeth Cook is General Manager of Advanced Grid Solutions at Duquesne Light.
Here is a taste of the cross-industry conversations that took place at the 138th annual meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies.
PUF: This is your second AEIC annual meeting, what do you hope to learn or why do you come to these events?
Elizabeth Cook: AEIC meetings are extremely valuable because being surrounded by other utilities, there's a significant amount of information to learn. I've attended the AEIC DER subcommittees since 2017, which has proven to be a great resource.
AEIC meetings and engagements create relationships and networks between utilities, so when we're back inside our utility, struggling with the next solution for the problems identified, we can have open discussion with others who have experienced similar issues within their utility.
PUF: Back at your home office, there must be a lot of initiatives you're working on. Can you talk about a couple?
Elizabeth Cook: I've had my current role for two years. Formerly, I managed the system planning group, where I led efforts around building circuit models, running studies, and determining how we serve our customers. In addition to system planning tasks, more recently, we were responding to the impact of emerging grid-connected technologies, with a focus on how the grid needed to respond and proactively prepare for growth in electrification and distributed energy resources.