Fortnightly Under Forty: Keegan Odle
Burns & McDonnell
“As long as you’re doing excellent work, whatever you’ve been assigned to do, you’ll get recognized.”
Law & Lawyers
Fortnightly Under Forty: Delevane Diaz
Electric Power Research Institute
“Together we designed a model that best represented Mexico’s energy system. Then we worked with CFE on exploring issues such as Mexico’s clean energy policy of fifty percent renewable generation by 2050.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Sean Meredith
Entergy
“That team is fully staffed, working through the restoration efforts in Mississippi, southern Arkansas, and northern Louisiana where we had severe weather. They’re doing a great job while maintaining all practices we put in place for the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Maria Bocanegra
Illinois Commerce Commission
“I enjoy bringing stakeholders together or inspiring stakeholders to evaluate hot topics.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Aaron Curtis
ITC Holdings (Fortis)
“This is the last of the MISO MVP projects in the Midwest. That’s another unique aspect. There were 17 projects approved.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Ana Stachowiak
NYPA
“That’s part of the joy of being in project management in this field. You have a real product at the end of the day, a three-dimensional reality that fills you with enormous pride.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Lisa Dailey
Northfork Elec. Coop.
“We’ve formed an LLC with another co-op in Southwest Oklahoma called NuEra Energy Services to look at ways of capturing non-traditional revenue, doing some shared services.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Abbey Roy
Southern Company
“ I spend a lot of time with other technology companies seeking partnerships for new technologies we can deploy.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Brian Van Abel
Xcel Energy
“It’s been a fluid situation and we’ve learned a lot on how statewide shelter-in-place orders impact each customer class as we’ve gone through April.”
How the Industry is Coping with Coronavirus Crisis
PwC
“If any industry is built to withstand this stress, it’s going to be the utilities. They’ve been planning for it. Their relentless focus on reliability is proving to be very valuable.”