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EV Leaders: Avangrid

EV Adoption

“It’s a little hard to quantify, but a goal on my end is making sure it’s a little fun or at least engaging for the customer to charge the EV at the time we need them to and providing them with enough value that they don’t mind delaying their charging, such that the electric demand hits our systems when it is optimal.”
Byline: 

Scott Bochenek and Charles Spence

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Community Engagement Powers JEA

Electric IRP Benefits from Customer & Stakeholder Input

“Because we are owned by the city, our customers are at the heart of all we do at JEA. It seemed only natural that, as we began the process of examining our future energy needs for the next thirty years, our community members would be a part of the process to develop our electric Integrated Resource Plan.”
Byline: 

Raynetta Curry Marshall

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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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Edith Clarke Top Innovator Award for Reliability: CenterPoint Energy

Top Innovators

“We switched over to a digital platform for substation protection and control, compared to the hundreds or thousands of copper cables. Our new solution enables us to complete construction more efficiently. We can deploy this type of technology and construct a substation control house in a matter of months instead of years.”
Byline: 

Kevin Bryant, Eric Easton, Ryan Marietta

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Energy is Digital

GE Vernova

“With the energy transition and accompanying rise of distributed energy resources like solar, wind, and renewables, the grid and the data architecture behind it is becoming more and more distributed. But distributed data is a difficult problem to solve.”
Byline: 

Mahesh Sudhakaran

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Lewis Latimer Top Innovator Award for Design: Avangrid

Top Innovators

“This innovation is about a simulation in the metaverse, simulating cybersecurity events, and how we can react to them. We created three virtual meta worlds, an electrical substation, the emergency communications center or ECC, and a cybersecurity collaboration meeting room.”
Byline: 

Mansur Mohammed and Carl Young

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