“Their award-winning projects are raising the bar and setting new standards for operational excellence throughout the industry. As AEIC President for the year ahead, I look forward to continuing to advance AEIC’s leadership role in the industry on these issues and to highlighting the achievements of its member companies.”

“AEIC’s Achievement Awards are presented each year to member companies who have clearly demonstrated significant contributions to advancing operational excellence in the electric utility industry.”

“Over the past few years, I sat down with thought leaders to explore uncertainty as part of EEI International Programs’ Influential Minds series. These experts provided unique perspectives from their disciplines on how the energy industry can harness or overcome uncertainty to inform decision making and reach our goals.”

“EPRI has expanded its collaboration with DOE’s national labs. This work has included case studies to explore specific climate resilience research questions, joint publications, and a series of workshops.”

“The FCC certainly has an extensive to-do list. On the Broadband Internet Access Service provider side, an interesting question of what comes next for them is whether the FCC’s Open Internet Order will deter investment in broadband facilities and services.”

“We’ve partnered with the University of Notre Dame to develop an industry-first Innovation Mindset Training course, which focuses on The Six Keys of Innovation. This training is designed to unlock the potential of our employees, empowering them to contribute to our innovation goals.”

“There is a mismatch of need and timing. For those growing utilities, the demands are coming faster than new transmission can meet. Transmission is part of the answer – but what can be done in the interim of this lopsided world?”

“Solutions leveraging gas capacity, battery storage, geothermal generation, and fuel cells are creating a bridge to long-term electricity grid solutions. This may be the start of a trend where modular demand needs are matched to distributed generation.”

“We used to call it IT/OT integration. We always knew the IT world could interact with the OT world to create new value, but it never happened in reality because of the operation and the customer sides of the utility.”