Fortnightly Under Forty: Aaron Curtis
ITC Holdings (Fortis)
“This is the last of the MISO MVP projects in the Midwest. That’s another unique aspect. There were 17 projects approved.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Maria Bocanegra
Illinois Commerce Commission
“I enjoy bringing stakeholders together or inspiring stakeholders to evaluate hot topics.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Sean Meredith
Entergy
“That team is fully staffed, working through the restoration efforts in Mississippi, southern Arkansas, and northern Louisiana where we had severe weather. They’re doing a great job while maintaining all practices we put in place for the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Delevane Diaz
Electric Power Research Institute
“Together we designed a model that best represented Mexico’s energy system. Then we worked with CFE on exploring issues such as Mexico’s clean energy policy of fifty percent renewable generation by 2050.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Keegan Odle
Burns & McDonnell
“As long as you’re doing excellent work, whatever you’ve been assigned to do, you’ll get recognized.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Jennifer Wischnowsky
Ameren
“The more you can learn and understand what technology can do for the different areas of the business, the more value you’re going to add.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Haben Goitom
Alliant Energy
“We’re thinking about how we can focus on our customers even more than we have in the past.”
Fortnightly Under Forty 2020
Profiles of Rising Stars
A chess board filled with rising stars of our industry: 64 Fortnightly Under Forties.
Wisconsin PSC: Jolene Sheil, Mitch Horrie, and Alex Fortney
Focus on Energy
“A lot of data is collected on what the programs are doing, how much energy is being saved, and what’s happening in the marketplace related to the activities that Focus on Energy engages in.”
Nominate Your Smartest Utility Projects
Nominate your smartest utility projects. These are your most transformative electrification and digitization initiatives that are creating the smartest communities of the future.
We called this the Fortnightly Smartest Communities last year. Austin, Columbus, San Antonio, Spokane and suburban Birmingham distinguished themselves as did their utilities, City of Austin Utilities, American Electric Power, CPS Energy, Avista Utilities and Southern Company.