Top Innovators
Cristina Botero is the Senior Manager for Distribution Reliability Programs at ComEd-Exelon. Daryl Richardson is the Manager of ComEd’s New Business Team dedicated to EV charging projects. Kyriakos Anastasopoulos oversees the regulatory and compliance aspects of the program for the ComEd Beneficial Electrification Team. Jordan Losiak is the Lead for the Business and Public Sector EV Rebate Program. Violeta Ryman is the Senior Program Manager for the business and public sector make-ready program. Tom Skawski is the Senior Program Manager for the residential EV charger and installation rebate program.
Exelon/Commonwealth Edison won the Fortnightly Top Innovator 2025 award ''William Hammer Top Innovator in Electrification'' for its New Customer EV Programs.
PUF's Lori Burkhart: Describe the innovation and its positive impact.
Cristina Botero: This team, in collaboration with multiple teams across ComEd, designed and implemented new electric vehicle customer programs that launched at the beginning of 2024, and helped propel EV adoption in Illinois three to four times higher than in the entire U.S. We took a unique approach that puts equity front and center, and our results show our commitment to equity.
Eighty percent of the rebates paid by ComEd through our EV programs have gone to low-income customers or those located in or primarily serving Equity Investment Eligible Communities (EIEC), as defined by the State of Illinois. This is an unprecedented statistic in the EV space and is a blueprint for other jurisdictions to adopt.
ComEd's innovation includes three new rebate programs. The first gives rebates of up to one hundred eighty thousand dollars for the purchase or lease of new or pre-owned fleet electric vehicles of any weight class for business or public sector customers. That's our largest rebate program by dollar amount.