2025 Fortnightly Top Innovators

Edith Clarke Top Innovator in the Reliability of Utility Service

• Arizona Public Service: Izzy Lawrence, Sarah Noll, Iain Shovelin, Kerri Carnes, Jay Delaney, Blanca Moreno, Val Wynia, and Bruce Brazis
• Salt River Project: Jon Cook

Lewis Latimer Top Innovator in Technology or Process Design

• Rayburn Electric Cooperative: David Naylor
• Southern California Edison: Eric Nunnally

George Westinghouse Top Innovator in Leadership in Innovation

• Sacramento Municipal Utility District: Paul Lau

Bertha Lamme Top Innovator in Power Generation

• Georgia Power | Southern Company: Joshua Brooks, Charles Coffin, Jeremy Hindman, Bill Hodan, Latonya Johnson, Ryan McKenzie, Matthew Sharman and Drew Uptain; Yvonne Avila, Josh Barill, Jon Glende, Ian Mylenbusch, and Emily Chatham

Charles Steinmetz Top Innovator in Network or Grid Operations

• Duquesne Light: Josh Gould, Jessica Valentine, and Richard Saporito
• ITC Holdings: Ethan Ehrisman, Dan Hutchison, and Adam Cianfarani 

Nancy Fitzroy Top Innovator in Environment and Safety

• San Diego Gas & Electric: Brian D’Agostino, Sandeep Aujla, Jonathan Woldemariam, and Thom Porter
• Ameren: Brian Martin, Dan Wilkens, Brett Carney, Pam Holley, and Brandon Teel

Maria Telkes Top Innovator in Distributed Energy

• Ontario IESO: Mary Bernard
• Eversource: Jaryn Vaile, Bin Huang, Koustubh Banerjee, Melanie Bennett, Meiyan Li, and Junhui Zhao

Francis Upton Top Innovator in Analytics for Utility Service

• Southern California Edison: Jerome Marr, Lesia Bilitchenko, John Lee, Chandra Gosai, Lawrence Yonathan, Alexey Tronkin, and Nirod Sahoo 
• Seattle City Light: Anabel Roza, Whitman Bouton, and Ruben Diaz

William Hammer Top Innovator in Electrification

• Con Edison: Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud, Amelia Berman, Jospeh Yanowitz, Kathryn Choi, Kerron Celestine, Chris Russo, Kevon Brown, Andre Douglas, Keegan Edward, and Yen Le 
• ComEd | Exelon: Cristina Botero, Denise Munoz, Violeta Ryman, Daryl Richardson, Tom Skawski, Jordan Losiak, and Kyriakos Anastasopoulos

John Beggs Top Innovator in the Energy Transition

• Duke Energy: Lon Huber

Mabel MacFerran Top Innovator in Energy Storage

• LUMA Energy: Juan Carlos Patiño Peralta, David Cruz Gonzalez, and Noel Pagán
• Alabama Power | Southern Company: Josh Barron, Scott Machovec, John Poole, Scotty Westbrook; Rob Szmyd, and Christopher Curow

Florence Fogler Top Innovator in Energy Transmission Technologies

• Centerpoint Energy: Eric Easton, Hong Ablack, Dan Greenwood, Jhonny DiGirolamo, and Adrian Moreno
• BGE/Exelon: Robert May, David Outen, and Danilo Policastro

Nikola Tesla Top Innovator in Artificial Intelligence

• Portland General Electric: Hema Sundaram, Veda Dharmala, Doug Lazar, and Thana Anderson
• National Grid: Paul Wassink and David Roman Ubeda

Edison Pioneers Top Innovator Award for Collaboration in Innovation

• Exelon, for AI at the Edge for Drone Autonomous Inspections: Ankush Agarwal, Andrew McCauley, Blake Alexander, Mike Segala, Khalid Behairy, Subhani Syed