AABE
The speaker list of American Association of Blacks in Energy events always excels. This is no more true than at AABE's annual policy summit and so it was in December. The 2020 summit three weeks ago featured leaders of utilities and utility regulators, of Congress, and the top energy associations. There was the chair of the House of Representatives' Energy and Power Subcommittee, a critically-important panel in all federal energy policymaking. There were execs from PSEG and Exelon, and commissioners from California and Pennsylvania. You get the idea. What follows is a taste of the many moments at this conference that matter to all of us in utility regulation and policy.
Brian Wolff, executive vice president for public policy and external affairs, Edison Electric Institute: We have an innovative program right now going on in Michigan that's with the Department of Corrections. It's a partnership with them, to be able to go and make sure that those folks have a pipeline to jobs. We're training on the facility grounds, and bringing them to our industry. I think that those are really the [kinds of] action that we're focused on. The outcomes that we're looking to achieve by doing those are promoting racial justice, and advancing the [diversity, equity and inclusion] progress at all levels.