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

Deck: 

Top Innovators

Byline: 

Sal Salet

Author Bio: 

Sal Salet represents the Distribution System Series team at PPL Electric Utilities.

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.

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