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Public Utilities Fortnightly each year highlights, celebrates, encourages, and accelerates innovation at utilities, to help them enhance delivery of resilient, safe, affordable, and clean service to customers. Fortnightly Top Innovators 2025 took place at the historic Willard Hotel from October 5–7, this year powered by SEPA. These Top Innovators stand out for their ingenuity, resilience, and ability to move the industry forward.
Celebrated this year were twenty-four awardees, featured in the October and November issues of PUF.
See our Facebook gallery for pictures of keynotes, speakers, and panels with utilities companies from across the United States. Be sure to plan to attend in October 2026.
Image: At the Fortnightly 2025 Top Innovators Conference, What’s an Innovative Utility? from left, Xcel Energy Chief Planning Officer Lon Huber, Exelon Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer Sunny Elebua, PPL Electric Utilities President Christine Martin, moderator and Energy Impact Partners Head of Innovation Evan Pittman.
Fortnightly Top Innovators 2025 articles at fortnightly.com
- CenterPoint Energy: Underground Residential Distribution Cable Life Extension Using AI Scanning Technology
- Consolidated Edison: The SmartCharge New York Residential Managed Charging Program Relaunch
- Exelon: AI at the Edge for Drone Autonomous Inspections
- LUMA Energy: Customer Battery Energy Sharing
- Portland General Electric: AI-Powered Purchase Order Audit Bot
- Southern California Edison: SPEED – System Planning Evaluation and Execution Dashboard
- Southern California Edison: STORM – Standard Tracking for Operations Restoration Management Tool
- Seattle City Light: Data-Driven, AI-Powered Vegetation Management Strategy
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District: SMUD’s 2030 Clean Energy Vision and Zero Carbon Plan
- Southern Company - Alabama Power: Concrete Thermal Energy Storage Demonstration Project
- Southern Company - Georgia Power: Plant McDonough-Atkinson 50% Hydrogen Blend Testing
- Energy Scenes: Fortnightly Top Innovators 2025
- Energy Scenes: Fortnightly Top Innovators 2025 Award Winners
