Attendees from around the world were online watching the Edison Electric Institute's 6th Annual Global Electrification Forum.

“The western region is 5 to 7 years away from a serious capacity shortfall. The major utility in Montana is predicting a 750-MW shortfall in capacity within 5 or 7 years, unless we come up with additional baseload generation.”

“The water and wastewater utility industry is similar to the gas utility industry. We’ve been successful in core competencies building and operating pressurized pipe, delivering a product underground, and working in a highly-regulated environment.”

“Our collaboration with EPRI has produced great breakthroughs.”

“As the chief strategy and commercial officer for Duke Energy, several of the issues we’re experiencing in the industry are my core responsibilities for our company.”

“The future is electric! Electricity will power our vehicles, our economy, our comforts and our aspirations.”

“EPRI’s sustainability model, platform enabling early detection and assessment of potential wildfires, and advancement of electric vehicle planning tools are transformational.”

“Southern Company has consistently remained one of EPRI’s largest funders because we believe in the power of collaboration and in ‘learning by doing’ to solve the hardest problems.”

Stan Connally, Maria Pope, Lisa Barton, Brian Savoy, and Matthew Ketschke tell us what motivates them to devote the time and energy necessary to play a big role in setting the course at EPRI.