Recognition, Celebration
Steve Mitnick has authored five books on the economics, history, and people of the utilities industries. While in the consulting practice leadership of McKinsey & Co. and Marsh & McLennan, he advised utility leaders. He led a transmission development company and was a New York Governor’s chief energy advisor. Mitnick was an expert witness appearing before utility regulatory commissions of six states, D.C., FERC, and in Canada, and taught microeconomics, macroeconomics, and statistics at Georgetown University.
Public Utilities Fortnightly is proud to announce that it will give this year’s Fortnightly Top Innovator Awards to twenty-four innovators or teams of innovators at twenty different utilities.

Three Top Innovator Awards went to teams of innovators at Exelon. Two Top Innovator Awards went to an innovator and a team of innovators at Southern California Edison. The same at Southern Company.
A Top Innovator Award went as well to an innovator or a team of innovators at Ameren, Arizona Public Service, Centerpoint Energy, Con Edison, Duke Energy, Duquesne Light, Eversource, ITC Holdings, LUMA Energy, National Grid, Ontario IESO, Portland General Electric, Rayburn Electric Cooperative, Sacramento Municipal Utilities District, Salt River Project, San Diego Gas & Electric, and Seattle City Light.