Charles Steinmetz Top Innovator Award for Grid Operations: PPL Electric Utilities

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Fortnightly Magazine - October 2023
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PUF's Lori Burkhart: Describe the innovations involving the distribution grid that led to the PPL team winning the Charles Steinmetz Top Innovator Award for Grid Operations, how they work, and what the benefits are to PPL Electric Utilities.

Sal Salet: At PPL, our goal is to be the best utility in the world. We want to provide safe, reliable, cost-effective, power to our more than 1.4 million customers.

Our industry is under a lot of pressure to change how we operate to meet major challenges such as aggressive decarbonization targets, severe weather events, and wildfires. In order to meet these challenges and continue to provide safe, reliable, and affordable power to our customers, we have to be innovative.

Our role as leaders is to create the culture and environment that enables employees to innovate. In this culture, diversity is appreciated, all ideas are heard, and employees feel safe making mistakes and learning from them.

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