Francis Upton Top Innovator in Analytics for Utility Service: “This early detection tool offers a more efficient way for field engineers to monitor potential HPFF leaks. By reducing detection time from weeks to hours, we can minimize leak duration and significantly mitigate environmental risks.”

John Beggs Top Innovator in Energy Transition: “The specific regulatory innovation is the cost recovery mechanism allowing the regulated utility to own, operate, and maintain RNG plants across Michigan and recover costs through both full-service voluntary customer subscriptions and open market sales.”

Nancy Fitzroy Top Innovator in Environment and Safety: “We are the first to say, ‘Why don’t we take them away from the hazard?’ This new tool technology takes the worker out of the dangerous environment.”

George Westinghouse Top Innovator in Leadership in Innovation: “Project REACH stands for Realizing Equitable Access to Cybersecurity in High School. Under this program, the federal government allocated dollars to historically black colleges and universities or HBCUs, for them to reach out to K-12 schools and help bring those students into computer science programs.” William Hammer Top Innovator in Electrification: “SiLVERS stands for St. Louis Vehicle Electrification Rides for Seniors. The goal was to introduce EVs and electrification into environmental justice communities and integrate electrification into the nonprofit operations.”

Francis Upton Top Innovator in Analytics for Utility Service: “The new approach addresses issues where history is not a good predictor of the future due to innovative changes in reliability programs. We developed methods for defining accurate targets by accounting for all changes to make optimal decisions for allocation of financial and human resources."

Each October, PUF highlights and celebrates innovators at utilities with our Top Innovator Awards and at our Fortnightly Top Innovators conference.

Edith Clarke’s pioneering engineering and mathematical work in the 1920s and 1930s made it possible to build transmission lines longer than 200 miles or longer, essential for electrifying the western U.S. We named the Top Innovator Award in Reliability after her.

Each October, PUF highlights and celebrates innovators at utilities with our Top Innovator Awards and at our Fortnightly Top Innovators conference.

A Conversation with JEM Smart CEO Spero Mensah: We educated employees and stakeholders on the fundamentals of electrifying a country, raised awareness of challenges and opportunities, and transferred knowledge in areas such as electric company planning, operations, maintenance, customer engagement, communications, and financial management.

“Our team at SCE was awarded the 2024 Nikola Tesla Top Innovator Award in Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Waveform Anomaly Recognition (AWARE) – a software platform that uses AI and machine learning to improve detection and location of faults on the grid.”