AEIC is the non-competitive forum where the people who operate North America's utilities trade hard-won answers instead of guarding them.
The questions change with every era. The challenge never does: the hardest operating calls arrive faster than any one utility can answer alone, and too much of what has already been solved stays locked inside the company that solved it.
The operating questions arrive faster than the industry can write them down. The hardest ones were never in a manual, and by the time they are, the next one has already arrived.
Somewhere, another utility has already worked through the exact call in front of you. Without a way to reach them, you are left guessing, and second-guessing.
Reliability and safety were never meant to be competitive advantages. When operating knowledge stays guarded, every utility pays to learn the same lesson twice.
AEIC exists for one reason: the people who run the grid needed one place to set the sales cycle aside, say what they are actually wrestling with, and get a straight answer from a peer who has already solved it. For over 140 years that has been the whole point: candor over competition, not a conference badge.
Three steps put your whole team inside the working bodies where utility practice is set.
A short conversation about your system, your team, and the operating problems on your desk right now.
We point your engineers, operators, and executives to the committees and programs that fit, with no per-seat limit.
Benchmark practice, tap the reference manuals, and get straight answers from utilities that have already solved what you are facing.
Every membership puts your whole team inside the working bodies where utility practice is set. Here is what that includes.
The day you join, your hardest problems stop being yours alone. The answer to the next one is usually a call away, to a peer who has already lived it. You walk into your toughest decisions backed by 190 utilities, the reference manuals the industry runs on, and a seat shaping the work on data, grid modernization, and workforce before it lands on everyone's desk. That is what this room has done for over 140 years: the knowledge of one is the knowledge of all.
Eight standing committees, the Power Delivery subcommittees, and the programs of the Center for Operational Excellence, each a working community that owns a piece of how the grid actually runs.
Three days with the senior operators of North America's electric utilities, built around peer conversation rather than slideware. The room that has convened every year since 1885.
Registration detailsThrough the Grid Mod Pod and a steady cadence of published work, AEIC carries member experience to the wider industry, regulators, and partners. Substance from practitioners, not a vendor pitch.
Hosted by Dr. Elizabeth Cook, with utility leaders working through the real questions of modernizing the grid. Available on Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you listen.
Listen now“The true benefits of being a member of AEIC is hearing and learning from our members, how we are all exploring the use of technology together.”
Membership is open to electric utilities across investor-owned, public, cooperative, and municipal systems. A single utility membership covers your whole organization, so any of your people can take part in the committees and programs.
Yes. Membership is structured to be accessible to utilities of every size, from the largest investor-owned systems to municipals and cooperatives. Reach out and we will walk you through what membership includes for an organization like yours.
The Center is AEIC's cross-cutting operational arm. It runs the programs that sit above any single committee, including executive education, the Data Framework, the Load Forecasting Workshop Series, the Grid Advancement Program, and the Data Center Task Force.
AEIC is a non-competitive working forum, not a lobbying body or a conference. The committees do the actual work of comparing operating practice and setting technical guidance, and the conversations happen between practitioners rather than through vendors.
Tell us about your utility and we'll walk you through what membership includes and how your people plug into the committees and programs, so your hardest problems stop being yours alone.
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