Western Conference 2024
Memorable Moments in Vail
The Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners held its annual meeting, "Regulatory Summit: Peak Perspectives 2024," in May.
Fortnightly Magazine - July 2024
Keeping Up with Load Growth Across Eleven States
AEP
“We are seeing more constraints from a resource perspective. There is a great opportunity to continue to collaborate with our elected officials, state regulators, and economic development state agencies, to improve processes to gain approval for building out necessary infrastructure to connect new customers.”
A Utility Celebrates Innovation
Exelon Innovation Summit
Conversations with Exelon’s Chief Operating Officer Mike Innocenzo; Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer Sunny Elebua; and Chief External Affairs Officer Colette Honorable.
Innovation: Mike Innocenzo
Exelon Innovation Summit
“It’s less about how to drive that culture and more about how to unleash it. The passion is in all of our employees, and every one of those employees says, ‘There’s a better way.’”
Innovation: Sunny Elebua
Exelon
“We have a Reinvent website, where employees can submit their thoughts and ideas in support of our business operations or for the betterment of our customers, which are then evaluated and possibly put into our business.”
Innovation: Colette Honorable
Exelon Innovation Summit
“The multi-year rate plans meet a number of objectives for us. We can say upfront, ‘Commission and customer, this is how we plan to invest in the infrastructure over three years, over five years. Hold us accountable.’ That creates certainty, transparency.”
Picture Energy: Celebrating a Utility's Top Innovators
Exelon Innovation Expo
Exelon held its annual celebration of its top innovators and innovation in June.
Picture Energy: Historic Chicago Neighborhood Celebrates 21st Century Power
Bronzeville Microgrid Switched On
Among those at the ceremony on May 24 to switch on the microgrid were U.S. Senator Dick Durbin; U.S. DOE Assistant Secretary for Electricity Gene Rodrigues; City of Chicago’s Chief Operating Officer John Roberson; Illinois Commerce Commission’s Commissioner Stacey Paradis; and ComEd CEO Gil Quiniones.
Picture Energy: Vogtle Celebration
Southern Company
With Plant Vogtle units 3 and 4 now complete, the four nuclear units together are expected to generate more than 30 million megawatt hours annually. Attending the celebration of the project’s completion were Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Southern Company CEO Chris Womack, and Southern Company’s Georgia Power CEO Kim Greene.
The Power Industry, Presently and Projected
Risk Mitigation Takes Center Stage
“Investing for more reliable, resilient power grids, using the most advanced tools and techniques, must now be considered standard operating procedure for power companies.”