Law & Lawyers

Engineering Cybersecurity

Burns & McDonnell/1898 & Co.

“Nobody wants to touch a 20-year-old server, PLC, HMI or human machine interface, an engineering workstation in operational environment, and allow some computer or automated capability to block it. Putting automated detection and response capabilities in place for critical infrastructure is, for lack of a better term, critical.”

Regulating Utility Data

West Monroe

“The reality is that how regulators rule on the accessibility and availability of utility data may determine whether a state can remotely achieve state decarbonization goals.”

AEIC Members Share Cost Optimization Approaches

Innovating the Grid Transformation

“Con Edison developed an auto-scheduler application that integrates key data into a single platform by leveraging technology and knowledge of seasoned employees to develop business logic for planning and decision making. Dominion Energy launched a net metering chatbot that utilizes machine learning to more efficiently provide information to customers.”

Co-Creating Energy Solutions with Local Communities

EEI International

A Global Circuit interview with Manitoba Hydro CEO Jay Grewal: “One of the key foundations to being an effective leader is self-awareness. So, what is leadership? You are influencing and impacting people. What is my role? My job is to support every single person in the organization to make their job easier.”

Patriot of His Country and Industry

Tom Fanning

Much like Owen Young a hundred years before him, Tom Fanning has again and again proven to be a patriot of his country and industry. Indeed, perhaps Fanning also personifies a second hero in the history of our industry, Alvin Ward Vogtle.

Tom Fanning: Chris Womack

Owen Young Award

“With all the work he’s led with EEI, on physical security issues as well as storm restoration, the work he’s done on cyber, at the same time pulling the Vogtle project through, and with the technology revolution occurring in our business, he’s continued to stay steady, has been a visionary, and brought us through it all to the other side.”

Tom Fanning: Kim Greene

Georgia Power

“Vogtle is an incredible legacy project for Tom. Southern Company persevered when no other company did. Tom Fanning’s realistic optimism in our ability to get through that project has led us to where we are the only utility in the country bringing online over 2,000 nuclear, clean energy megawatts to serve our customers.”