Exelon Utilities
Calvin Butler is the CEO of Exelon Utilities.
PUF: How does your company view the electric industry's transformation (decarbonization, electrification, digitization), and what's your strategy — technologies, resilience, operational efficiency, customer experience — to succeed in it?
Calvin Butler: We recently completed the development and buildout of a ten-year strategy for our utilities, with four critical stages. First, modernizing for reliability — continuing to increase the reliability of our grid and modernize our systems.
Second, increasing resiliency — the grid must adapt to the impact of increased extreme weather events, from storms to floods. Third, enabling customer choice — increasing the ease and ability for customers to connect DER to our system, from renewables such as solar, to storage and EVs. Finally, electrification and decarbonization — helping our customers and communities electrify sectors such as transportation.
When these stages are realized, communities are empowered to meet their goals. We refer to this as our "Connected Communities Strategy." As part of this strategy, it is critically important to us that we ensure the clean energy future it envisions is available to all of our customers; that there is equity in access for low-income and medium-income customers.