Oracle
Brad Williams is VP of Industry Strategy at Oracle Utilities.
FirstEnergy's electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, based on serving more than six million customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland, and New York. Customers are served by ten subsidiaries, and the utility decided it was time to integrate and streamline its operations across those subsidiaries.
Enter Oracle, to help with changes to FirstEnergy's subsidiaries' organizational structures designed to centralize decision making, leading to greater consistency across the company. That was no easy task with different cultures in place at Ohio Edison, Illuminating Company, Toledo Edison, Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power, West PennPower, JCP&L, Mon Power, and Potomac Edison.
Brad Williams, VP of Industry Strategy at Oracle Utilities led that transformation and explains here how it was done. This ADMS success story soon will have more to show as FirstEnergy moves into distributed energy resource integration.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: Give an overview of what Oracle did with FirstEnergy's operating subsidiaries.
Brad Williams: FirstEnergy has ten operating companies across six states serving six million customers. These all came with different cultures through acquisitions.