Conversations with ABB’s John Hayter, Nedra Hurley; Accenture’s Patrick Aluise; AiDash’s Abhishek Singh; AVEVA’s Ann Moore; Bentley Systems’ Joe Travis, Brad Johnson; Bidgely’s Gautam Aggarwal, Maria Kretzing; Capgemini’s Hari Krishnamurthy; FLO’s Chris Thorson, Frank Fata, Nathan Yang; GE’s Mahesh Sudhakaran; Hitachi’s Anthony Allard; IBM’s Casey Werth; OATI’s Mary Brown, Ali Ipakchi; Oracle’s Brad Harkavy, Sameer Kalra, Allison Salke, Mary Sprayregen; PXiSE’s Patrick Lee; and Toshiba’s Jeff Simmons.

PUF’s Selected Excerpts of Presentations by EEI’s Tom Kuhn, Brian Wolff, Emily Fisher, Phil Moeller, and Richard McMahon.

“What’s unique about Exelon is we serve urban dense areas, as well as rural America. Think about the coastal and rural areas in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware. With ComEd, the northern part of its Illinois territory, Rockford, DeKalb.”

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“For Winter Storm Uri in 2021, we were part of those historic curtailments. That highlighted we can’t continue our traditional mindset that reliability is keeping wires in the air. That was the old way of thinking. It has evolved into the fuel deliverability, availability aspects of it.”

“Our challenge is the pace at which people are being forced into a clean-energy transition with resources that don’t have the capability to carry the load. We’re seeing blackouts. For us, it’s maybe slowing things down a bit.”

“To best serve our fast-growing service area and meet evolving member expectations, we have engaged in strategic acquisitions, which is a bit unique for the co-op space. We delivered broadband. We acquired a local for-profit telephone company, United Communications.”

“We’re different because we’re not like for-profit entities. We serve usually the hardest to the most expensive places in America based on lack of population density.”

Conversations with NRECA CEO Jim Matheson, Middle Tennessee Electric CEO Chris Jones, Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas CEO Buddy Hasten, and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative CEO Suzanne Lane.

Snippets from CERAWeek by S&P Global.