What AEIC is today
Founded in 1885 by the Edison illuminating companies, AEIC is the one place where utility leaders rise to challenges, accelerate opportunities, and achieve excellence across the generation, transmission, distribution, and usage of electric power.
The electricity industry has changed profoundly over the past few decades, and the pace only keeps building. Through all of it, AEIC has stayed the one gathering place where the people who run the grid work through the operating problems of generation, transmission, distribution, and use of electric power together.
AEIC was founded in 1885 by the Edison illuminating companies, a federation of operating utilities governed by their own working committees. What endures is the premise the founders set: the people running the system learn fastest from each other. Knowledge of one is the knowledge of all.
Eight standing committees and the Power Delivery subcommittees, where utility engineers and operators set the technical practice and guidance the industry relies on.
The cross-cutting arm running the work on data, grid modernization, executive education, and the largest operating challenges before they reach every system.
The Annual Meeting and Strategy Summit, the two rooms each year where senior operators and executives set direction face to face.
AEIC board members Ben Felton and Patrick Smith.
Load growth, electrification, and data-center demand are reshaping the grid, even as the work of keeping it reliable gets harder. AEIC is built for exactly this: utilities working through the next set of operating problems together. If your utility isn't already a member, I invite you to join us.
Membership is open to electric utilities across the US and internationally. Tell us about your utility and we will walk you through what membership includes.
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