Owen Young Award
Steve Mitnick has authored four books on the economics, history, and people of the utilities industries. While in the consulting practice leadership of McKinsey & Co. and Marsh & McLennan, he advised utility leaders. He led a transmission development company and was a New York Governor’s chief energy advisor. Mitnick was an expert witness appearing before utility regulatory commissions of six states, D.C., FERC, and in Canada, and taught microeconomics, macroeconomics, and statistics at Georgetown University.
Who is Tom Fanning? For those of us at Public Utilities Fortnightly, the question is like asking, who was Owen Young? For as was Young in his time, Fanning in our time has set the pace for the utilities industry and then reached beyond to lead on national policies.
And both men, whether in the teens, twenties, and thirties of the last century or in the naughts, teens, and twenties of this one, broke ground in critical areas of lasting importance for decades to follow. So, it is fitting we honor Fanning with an award named for a fellow patriot of his industry and country.
PUF traveled to Atlanta, to get the take of Fanning's colleagues at Southern Company, CEO Chris Womack, Georgia Power CEO Kim Greene, and Southern Company Gas CEO Jim Kerr, about the mark Fanning made. We interviewed Fanning too, to learn further, who is this man who had a Young-size impact for us all?
Owen Young Award conversations at fortnightly.com:
