Deck:
PUF Salutes All of You
Author Bio:
Lori Burkhart is Managing Editor of Public Utilities Fortnightly.
Ameren
- Steve Kidwell (Idea hub, accelerator)
- George Mues (Accelerator)
- Cole Crews (Private LTE)
- Mike Abba (Smart grid)
- Mark Nealon (3D substation design)
- Lorne Poindexter (Powerplant sensors)
- James Pierce (Drone operation)
American Water
- Ben Stanford (Water quality intelligence)
Anza Electric Cooperative
- Kevin Short (Solar plus storage)
Arizona Public Service
- Marc Romito, Kent Walter, Erika Larsen, Dawn Tomkins (Solar for lower incomes)
Baltimore Gas & Electric
- Trey Greiser (Bad debt optimization)
- Kyle Harrer (Gas meter accuracy)
- Pat Carberry (Storage virtual tour)
CenterPoint Energy
- Roderick Batteaux, David Blankenship, Brittany Boone, Glenn Callaghan, Geoff Castro, Stacey Cox, Michelle Doan, Rachel Freeman, Kara Gostenhofer, JD Haack, Stephany Lin-Abney, Danielle Malinowski, Corrie Morales, Don Morris, Bo Murphy, Laura Neel, Martin Norval, Andre Parrett, Cory Pechacek, Pierce Prater, John Price, Olivia Ross, Jessica Sanford, Bran Sasic, Anthony Schmeck, Zack Shaaban, Fabian Tarango, Errefat Thabet (Incubator)
Central Electric Cooperative
- David Swank (Idea hub)
City Utilities of Springfield
- Brent McKinney (Energized surfaces safety)
Commonwealth Edison
- Shay Bahramirad, Sandor Williams (Community microgrid)
- Shay Bahramirad, Esa Paaso (Smart grid)
Consolidated Edison
- Eric Mastroianni, Edwin Perez, Jennifer Moy, Mike Salerno (Digital customer interface)
- John Shipman, Sherry Login (EV charging)
CPS Energy
- Paula Gold-Williams, Jason Scarlett, Arun Schipse (Idea hub)
Dentons
- Clint Vince, Jennifer Morrissey, Emma Hand (Smart cities)
East Kentucky Power Cooperative
- Tony Campbell (Workforce safety)
Edison International
- Bryan Pham, Hamilton Pham, Michael Kohler (Volt/VAR control)
Edison Electric Institute
- Brian Wolff (Connecting with customers)
Energy Impact Partners
- Evan Pittman (Innovation equity)
Electric Power Research Institute
- Ram Narayanamurthy, Peng Zhao, Herb Yaptinchay (Public housing efficiency)
- Keith Waldrop (Nuclear fuel storage)
- Rick Wachowiak, Rosa Yang, Kelli Voelsing, Tom Kindred, Alessandra Ozorio (Nuclear plant safety)
- Eladio Knipping, Naresh Kumar (Air quality modeling)
- Jeff Greene, Rick Way (Nuclear plant maintenance)
- Sean McGuinness (Grid protection systems)
- Andrew Phillips, Fabio Bologna, Jay Canale, Greg Coffey, Charity Mangan (Mobile field guides)
- John Scheibel (Gas turbine maintenance)
- Jamie Dunckley (EV customer behavior)
- John Halliwell, Tom Reddoch (Smart circuit breaker)
Ericsson
- Magnus Tränk (LTE operation)
Eversource
- Aaron Hanenkratt (System operation centers)
First Solar
- Kevin Collins, RJ Jardin, Venkat Reddy, Vladimir Chadliev, Howard Gugel (NERC) and others (Solar when grid faults)
- Mahesh Morjaria, John Smolenski and Jose Aponte (Tampa Electric) and others including E3 (Solar dispatchability)
Georgia Power
- Pete Nettles (Solar for C&I customers)
Hawaiian Electric
- Richard Barone and others (Demand response contracting)
- Marc Asano, Earle Ifuku (Private solar integration)
- Rebecca Dayhuff Matsushima and others (Distributed gen. contracting)
- Jack Shriver, Robert Isler (Military base microgrid)
- Jim Kelly (Military base black start)
Itron
- Roberto Aiello, Kevin Kho, Robert Sonderegger, James Gill (Grid connectivity monitoring)
LG&E and KU
- Nick Jewell (Storage technology testing)
- Aron Patrick (Solar data analytics)
Navigant
- Dan Bradley (Innovation sprints Jan Vrins, Mackinnon Lawrence (Energy Cloud)
- Lon Huber (RPS modernization)
North Carolina Electric Cooperatives
- Jim Musilek (Customized microgrids)
- Chris Spears, Catherine O’Dell, Tom Butler (Agricultural microgrids)
NRECA
- Keith Dennis (Electric water heating)
New York Power Authority
- Saul Rojas (Puerto Rico restoration)
- Guy Sliker (College microgrids)
PECO
- Bruce Williams, Rasheen Williams, James Holloway (Advanced meter maintenance)
- Dan Butcher (Integrated outage response)
Pepco Holdings
- Kristina White, Lisa Clark, Juneann Baker, Tracy Orledge, Kimberly Reeves, Julie Nelson, Gary Stockbridge, Mike Poncia (Employing those with autism)
PPL Electric Utilities
- Yi Li, Kimberly Gautner, Mychal Kistler, Tina Rauch, Patrick Barnett (Downed wire safety)
San Diego Gas & Electric
- Brian D’Agostino, Steve Vanderburg, Katie Giannecchini (Wildfire protection)
Smart Electric Power Alliance
- Erika Myers (EV grid integration)
Southern Company
- Tom Fanning (Cybersecurity Kim Greene (Smart neighborhoods)
- Mark Lantrip (Microgrids for C&I customers)
- Stan Vangilder, Julie Pigott, Lillania Shah, Michael Britt (Indoor agriculture)
- Michael Britt, Jim Trupiano, Darren Epps, Andy Phillips (Partnering with Lyft)
Western Area Power Administration
- Tim Langer, Mike Prowatzke, Tish Saare, Andrea Severson (Grid protection from birds)
Wisconsin Energy
- Chad Koch (Powerplant fleet diversity)
- Xcel Energy Ben Fowke, Kent Larson, Michael Lamb, Brian Long, Eileen Lockhart (Drone operation)
