CEOs Talk Innovation: Tom Fanning
AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
"Turns out there’s more people that have an innovation gene, but they had subordinated it. We started some things to celebrate the revolutionary in us all."
CEOs Talk Innovation: Leo Denault
AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
"Continuous innovation allows us to provide a critical service at a price point that is phenomenal."
CEOs Talk Innovation: Chris Crane
AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
"We were able to get regulatory approval to own storage and that’s a big step. You have to be willing to partner."
CEOs Talk Innovation: Warner Baxter
AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
"Innovative new products and services will help us get even closer to our customers."
CEOs Talk Innovation: Nick Akins
AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
"If you want to achieve climate change goals or advance innovation that will save energy or improve lives, the quickest way is to have the electric energy company facilitate universal access."
CEOs Talk Innovation
AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
Conversations with Nick Akins, Warner Baxter, Leo Denault, Chris Crane, and Tom Fanning with co-questioners Tom Flaherty, Strategy& and PUF’s Steve Mitnick
National Energy Board
CAMPUT 2019
"Could a province prevent a pipeline being built? We’re living this right now with the
Trans Mountain Pipeline, and the matter has not settled yet."
Prince Edward Island Regulatory & Appeals Commission
CAMPUT 2019
"85% of the heating in Prince Edward Island is by furnace oil, and the rest is electricity."
Ontario Energy Board
CAMPUT 2019
"The biggest issue, for the larger utilities that have much more intense capital pressures, is aging infrastructure."
Nova Scotia Utility & Review Board
CAMPUT 2019
By 2020, we have to achieve 40% renewable energy in electricity sales. 15 years ago, 80% of our generation was thermal, mostly coal, natural gas, and a small bit of oil."