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Fortnightly Under Forties: Profiles

Under Forties 2022

Meet PUF’s 2022 Under Forties, the up-and-coming rising stars of the utilities industry and utility regulation hailing from twenty-nine utilities, utility regulatory commissions, and other industry organizations.

Maria Pope: Transformation Priorities

Portland GE

“To successfully make this transition, we must balance competing priorities, which requires us to continuously explore and innovate – simplifying processes, implementing new technologies and digital tools, and most important, continuing to put customers at the center of all we do.”

Total Cost of EV Ownership

FTI Consulting

“The core challenge for our society and country is to develop charging infrastructure. This one we need to solve first and then talk about more sophisticated challenges.”

Distributech: Anthony Allard

Hitachi Energy

“What we see are two big trends. Number one is electrification of the economy to meet sustainability targets. We believe electricity will become the backbone of the energy system. The second one is electricity needs to come from carbon-free generation.”

Distributech: Alexis Grenon

Schneider Electric

“Because of electrification and digitization, we see the management of digital distributed energy resources is everywhere. That’s something we’re seeing more and more in the U.S. We’re seeing that in Australia, and we’re starting to see that in Europe. That’s the buzz on the floor.”

Distributech: Dave Whitehead

Dave Whitehead is the CEO of SEL.

“Maybe we need to change distribution system to some other name because distribution used to be, I have a substation and the power flow is going to flow one way. But there are bidirectional power flows when the sun is rising or setting, or the wind is blowing.”