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PUF's Highest Honor to EEI's Tom Kuhn

Owen Young Award

Conversations with Ameren Executive Chair Warner Baxter; Southern Company Executive Chair Tom Fanning; Xcel Energy Executive Chair Ben Fowke; American Electric Power Executive Chair Nick Akins; Edison International CEO Pedro Pizarro; Portland General Electric CEO Maria Pope; PNM Resources CEO Pat Vincent-Collawn; retired DTE Energy CEO Gerry Anderson; retired NV Energy CEO Michael Yackira; retired Sierra Pacific Resources CEO Walt Higgins; retired TXU Corporation CEO Erle Nye; and retired EEI Executive Vice President David Owens.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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EV Leaders: CMS Energy

EV Adoption

“We have EV specialists who will advise you on charging station options, get that charger installed, and provide a $500 rebate – $1,000 if you’re income-qualified – to cover the cost. We make sure you are taking advantage of our off-peak charging rate and introduce you to other energy- and cost-saving programs.”
Byline: 

Lauren Snyder and Jeff Myrom

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Tom Kuhn: Warner Baxter

Ameren

“When you put all these ingredients together: a purpose driven mindset, a humble, servant leader who seeks to collaborate and bring people together to develop sustainable constructive solutions, you have a secret sauce like no other.”
Byline: 

Warner Baxter

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EV Leaders: Commonwealth Edison

EV Adoption

“A lot of it is asking the customers, when you’re thinking about purchasing an EV, or installing charging, both residential and commercial, let us know so we can be a resource and understand what the load impacts are to the grid. We’re continuing to get smarter there, as well as using internal data scientists and analytics teams to start to track that. It’s still evolving.”
Byline: 

Diana Sharpe

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Tom Kuhn: Tom Fanning

Southern Company

“Tom took it upon himself to assure that EEI, as part of now its central mission, was able to support activities like national response events and cyber activity.”
Byline: 

Tom Fanning

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EV Leaders: Con Edison

EV Adoption

“We rolled out 100 publicly accessible stations across the five boroughs. The utilization of curbside chargers has exceeded our expectations. Already the system average is 35% and increasing, with some stations exceeding 50% utilization. New York City has targets to bring 1,000 plugs to the curb by 2025, and 10,000 by 2030.”
Byline: 

Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud

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Tom Kuhn: Ben Fowke

Xcel Energy

“It starts with building that one voice within the industry. There’re a lot of different CEOs. Everybody has their own playbook, and not everybody agrees on everything. But Tom, under his tenure, has taken building consensus to a new level.”
Byline: 

Ben Fowke

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EV Leaders: Duquesne Light

EV Adoption

“We have a robust transmission system in place because of the heavy industry that operated in Pittsburgh. These industrial giants have since left. Because of this additional capacity, we are well positioned to support EVs, where some utilities might have six- to eight-year challenges around rights-of-way and the building of transmission lines.”
Byline: 

Brian Guzek

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Tom Kuhn: Nick Akins

American Electric Power

“Utilities were focused on what’s happening in the states where they operated and had different opinions about what could be done from a national standpoint. To bring all of that together, Tom’s ability to leverage leaders and others to broker deals was something to behold.”
Byline: 

Nick Akins

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EV Leaders: Idaho Power

EV Adoption

“We also work with different state agencies, the ones deploying the U.S. DOT’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funds or before that it was the VW funds. We’ll serve on committees to provide input on how to craft their programs or help promote their incentives once they’re out.”
Byline: 

Billie McWinn and Patti Best

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