AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
Nick Akins is the CEO of American Electric Power.
At the June 2019 Edison Electric Institute Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Nick Akins from AEP, Warner Baxter from Ameren, Chris Crane from Exelon, Leo Denault from Entergy, and Tom Fanning from Southern Company, joined Strategy& and Public Utilities Fortnightly for our third virtual innovation roundtable.
Tom Flaherty, Strategy&: Summarize the innovation efforts that you've accomplished over the last several years.
Nick Akins: Our innovation efforts have been substantial. To help drive discussions and policy objectives around innovation, we decided to have our own IllumiNation Energy Summit, which we held in Columbus in May.
The IllumiNation Summit was focused on regulators and policymakers and was designed to give them a hands-on experience interacting and discussing technologies in the energy space. We wanted to spur thinking about how these technologies might benefit customers and how they apply to electric service providers, because our industry needs to be focused on innovation.