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Education Stephanie Duffield has been sworn in as a member of the board of trustees of Arkansas Tech University of Russellville. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed Duffield to her second [...]

Bin Yu, Founder of Utegration, reported that Bart Thielbar will take on the new role of CEO effective immediately. According to a release, Yu will serve in the role of [...]

Byline: Nicole Sheldon Lewis Tree Service Inc. announces the hiring of Elizabeth Lay as director of safety and human performance. She previously has advised on human performance and operations risk [...]

ITOCHU Corp. and NAES Corp. have named Tom Bartolomei President and Chief Operating Officer of NAES, effective April 1. A veteran energy industry executive, Bartolomei currently serves as NAES Senior [...]

Aggreko supplies temporary power generation equipment and temperature control equipment in over 100 countries, but the company puts a firm emphasis on its local expertise. John Lewis, its Managing Director [...]

Managing power grids in North America has become much more complicated in recent years, and that complexity grows with each passing day. For example, wholesale power trading has caused grid [...]

Utility executives insist on demonstrable ROIs, faster integration and on-time implementation. Three different models for integrating work management system(WMS) and outage management system(OMS) are presented.

Dr Fiaz Ahmad Chaudhry has taken over charge as Managing Director of the National Transmission and Dispatch Company Limited (NTDC). He was appointed by the NTDCL Board of Directors with [...]

Byline: Martin Rosenberg Andrew Ott became president and chief executive of PJM Interconnect late last year. The Energy Times recently caught up with Ott for a wide-ranging conversation about the [...]

New Energy Ventures banks on services beyond the commodity. As new energy ventures, LLC explains in its promotional. literature, it took a long time in California for electricity competition to [...]

The jobs the utility regulators took up were ill-defined, allowing the raw recruits to carve out far bigger and far more controversial roles than ever expected. Short of dating the […]

ERROLL B. Davis Jr. isn't one to settle for mediocrity. Whether he's practicing his serve on the tennis court, putting golf balls or managing a utility empire, his primary goal [...]

A 1992 survey of public utilities executives conducted by the University of Michigan compiled information on executive's salaries, education, work experience and demographic profile. The survey found that most executives continue to be college educated, middle-aged men with engineering backgrounds. However, 1992 figures compared with 1984 figures indicated that more executives are coming from marketing and sales backgrounds, and more are transferring from non-utility industries. Additionally, the percentage of women executives climbed from 4.9% to 10.9%. Over forty companies participated in the survey., FOR OVER 30 YEARS, FACULTY OF THE BUSINESS SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HAVE COLLECTED DATA ON MANAGERS AND EXECUTIVES IN THE UNITED STATES AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, INCLUDING [...]

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is a smart grid lynchpin. As the grid becomes more intelligent, so must meters and their underlying communications framework. For a look at how metering is [...]

ASSET Engineering welcomes the newest addition to their electrical designer team at their office in Canton, Mississippi. Gary Scott brings 23 years of work experience and 18 years of drafting [...]

Chris Lockwood, Divisional Vice President of Waste Pro's South Mississippi divisions, has received the Waste 360 40 Under 40 Award. Also known as the Rising Star Award, the program 'recognizes [...]

Aaron Zahn became CEO and managing director of JEA, Jacksonville's municipal utility. Zahn, previously CEO of energy storage company Pascal Partners, came to JEA a year ago as a replacement [...]

Top electric-utility executives stated that their fears for 1992 include federal regulation, national economic hardship, and the threat of global warming. Political persuasion is felt the strongest in Northeast and West Coast areas.

Some environmentalists labels themselves 'skeptics,' or refer to themselves as 'reluctant.' Not Amory Lovins. The consultant physicist doesn't embrace the term 'environmentalist,' choosing to emphasize his expertise in, and advocacy [...]

Howard A. Scott, Ph.D., specializes in utility operations technology for Cognyst Consulting. His technical and business experiences include automatic meter reading, telecommunications, project and business management, market research, and software [...]

ComEd President and CEO Anne Pramaggiore has been promoted to senior executive vice president and CEO of Exelon Utilities. She replaces Denis P. O'Brien, who will serve as adviser until [...]

Byline: James R. Dukart Jimmy Dean, a lead lineman for Alabama Power, has a hobby that is demanding, exacting, painstaking and, on some days, just a real grind - and [...]

On-line condition monitoring will play a central role in the future grid, according to Nicolaie Fantana. 'This monitoring will also be important in dealing with dynamic operational conditions, grid complexity [...]

Born in Fairfax, Virginia. Married for 15 years to Leslie, and has twin 22-year-old stepdaughters, Lauren and Audrey, and a 14-year-old daughter named Karlie. Describes himself as a hardworking and [...]

Born in Milan, a small rural community in upstate New York. Married to her husband, Phillip, for the last 25 years. They have two children, Jacob and Kristen. Inspired by [...]

Major Colombian utility EPM aims to become one of the regionEs largest. Cross-border acquisitions and financing is the next stage. by Ben Miller Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM), ColombiaEs leading [...]

Byline: Daniel Gross A leading utility executive looks to the future. John Rowe, 63, has been chief executive officer of Exelon since 2000. Based in Chicago, Exelon is one of [...]

S. David Freeman came to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District last month as the utility's sixth general manager in six years. The straight-talking Texan took on an organization with a [...]

by Vic Wyman Utility managers are failing to maintain a healthy balance between work and leisure, according to the findings of a survey by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). The [...]

Many utility employees are familiar with the term 'succession planning'. In a strict sense, this means a process of systematically identifying and developing talented people to ensure leadership continuity for [...]

Former IBM 'top talent' consultant Nicola Sawford has moved to Blue Sky Consulting to head its utilities practice. She is well-known in the utility industry, having set up North Wales [...]

In this second article on what senior executives of Britain's utility sector think about key issues, the focus switches from regulation to consolidation and workforce skills. Interviews were conducted with [...]

Honours were bestowed upon 12 people related to utilities in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours List. The award winners are listed, along with their affiliation or honoured services. Knighthood: Kenneth [...]

Interim managers can be a godsend for utilities going through change, difficulty or recruitment problems . By Nigel Corby. Interim management is something of a grey area for many organisations. [...]

Utilities and telecoms companies shy away from using so-called interim managers to fill short-term needs, according to a 2002 snapshot survey from interim management specialist Russam GMS. Only 2 per [...]

by Simon Jones and Roger Milne Europe's third-largest multi-utility, RWE, is considering alternative management structures as it grapples with integrating a raft of newly-acquired businesses. Under one plan, RWE would [...]

The number of Britain's utilities intending to take on new staff in the third quarter of 2002 outstripped those planning to shed jobs for the first time in two years, [...]

Mark Mazak has been named assistant general manager of finance and administration for the electric and water utility. Previously, he was assistant general manager of Turlock Irrigation District, a generation, [...]

ADVERTISING Kruskopf Olson, Minneapolis, hired Holly Clements as project manager. Schultz Ward Prentice, Minneapolis, named Michael Westphal vice president of client relations. Viking Creative Concepts Inc., Minneapolis, named Daryl Orris [...]

Frank Ault's Dedication Keeps Local Philanthropic Group on Solid Ground The financial health of two San Diego institutions occupies Frank Ault at work and in his volunteer hours. As vice [...]

Noel Brandon has returned from a sabbatical to be named Manager of Pacific Utility Equipment Co. s new division in Tacoma, Wash. Brandon has been involved in equipment sales, filling [...]

H. Bradley (Brad) Eldredge has begun his term as NWPPA's 51st president. His involvement in the community is obviously important to Eldredge, who not only serves as an assistant professor [...]