POWERGRID International Names Projects Of The Year
Winners were announced live at DistribuTECH awards dinner
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The editors of POWERGRID International magazine—the official publication of DistribuTECH Conference & Exhibition—and parent company PennWell Corp. on Feb. 2 announced winners of the magazine's annual electric utility Projects of the Year.
POWERGRID International Editor in Chief Teresa Hansen announced the four winners live Monday, Feb. 2 during the Electric Light & Power and POWERGRID International Annual Awards Dinner in San Diego. The event kicked off the electric power industry's No. 1 transmission and distribution show in the world, DistribuTECH Conference & Exhibition, and wrapped up its sister show, the Electric Light & Power Executive Conference.
"We had to find a substantially larger venue this year because so many people wanted tickets," Hansen said. "The world as we know it wouldn't function without the electric power industry, and our award winners represent some of the hardest-working and brightest people in the business, from engineers to CEOs. Even the crowd at the awards dinner is the best of the best."
Hansen presented Baltimore Gas & Electric with the 2015 Smart Grid Project of the Year award for its Deploying Enterprise-scale Software Solutions With Clear Value program. The utility expressed special thanks to C3 Energy for its contributions on the project.
Commonwealth Edison Co. took first place in the Customer Engagement Project of the Year category for its ComEd Bill Transformation and mentioned work done by Ajenda, CrowdSPRING, Invoke, Slalom and TransCentra.
NV Energy was named the Demand Response/Energy Efficiency Project of the Year winner for its mPowered Home Energy Management program. The utility gave special thanks to EcoFactor, Alstom Grid, Scope Services, Mad Dash Filed Services and Active TeleSource.
PSE&G won in the Renewable Grid Integration Project of the Year category for its Solar 4 All pole-attached solar program and named vendors Petra Solar, Riggs Distler and URS Corp. as helpful contributors.
Electric Light & Power magazine also honored its award winners. Hansen presented the Small Utility CEO of the Year award to Vineland Municipal Electric Utilities Director Joseph A. Isabella and the Large Utility CEO of the Year award Edison International Chairman, President and CEO Theodore "Ted" F. Craver Jr.
The evening concluded with Hansen's presentation of the 2014 Electric Light & Power Utility of the Year award to Dominion Chairman, President and CEO Thomas F. Farrell II.
An article about the Projects of the Year will appear in the March issue of POWERGRID International magazine.
For more information on POWERGRID International's Projects of the Year Awards, POWERGRID International magazine, DistribuTECH Conference & Exhibition, and the Electric Light & Power Executive Conference, visit www.power-grid.com, www.distributech.com and www.elpconference.com.
About POWERGRID International
POWERGRID International magazine, the official publication of DistribuTECH Conference & Exhibition, celebrates its 20th year as the voice of the electric T&D industry in 2015. More than 40,000 T&D professionals read POWERGRID International magazine for expert coverage of the industry's important news and emerging trends.
About PennWell
PennWell, the Tulsa, Okla.,-based parent company of Electric Light & Power (www.elp.com) magazine and POWERGRID International (www.power-grid.com) magazine, has been known for providing comprehensive coverage of several strategic markets since 1910. Today PennWell Corp. is a highly diversified, business-to-business media and information company with 320 profit centers, including 130 print and online magazines and newsletters, 60 conferences and exhibitions on six continents, and an extensive offering of books, maps, websites, research products, digital media and database services.
If you'd like more information, please call Senior Editor Kristen Wright at 918-640-6781 or email Kristen at [email protected].
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