Tempe, AZ— November 6, 2025 — The Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (AEIC), the electric utility industry’s leading authority for operational excellence, announced today that Salt River Project (SRP) has received one of the Association’s 2025 Achievement Awards.

The AEIC Achievement Awards are presented annually to member companies who have clearly demonstrated significant contributions to advancing operational excellence in the electric utility industry.

SRP was recognized for its Operational Readiness (OpR) Program that enabled the company to add 2600 MW of inverter-based resources (IBRs) to a balancing authority with 8500MW summer peak and 3500MW springtime load.

“This OpR program began addressing challenges four years in advance so the transition to a highly variable renewable fleet would be a planned process rather than reactionary,” said Scott Anderson, Operational Readiness Director, SRP. “The more than 30 projects under the program included increasing operational flexibility, re-calculating reserve requirements due to increased variability, performing the first electromagnetic transient (EMT) studies, recommendations on IEEE 2800 adoption, and how to best utilize battery storage.”