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Achievement Awards

The industry’s best work, recognized by its peers.

Each year AEIC's Achievement Awards honor member projects that move operational excellence forward. Submissions for 2026 are now closed, and we are grateful to every company that put its best work forward. The winners will be celebrated on stage at the 142nd Annual Meeting in Ojai this October.

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The best work in the industry, on stage.

2025 recipients

The 2025 recipients.

Congratulations to the 2025 recipients, recognized for transformational solutions to the industry's hardest operational problems, with measurable results.

Florida Power & Light
NextEra Energy's NERC Information Command Center (NICC)
President's Award · highest honor
Dominion Energy
Data Center Capacity Request Solution
Exelon
POSEIDON: Personalized & Optimized Storm ETR
Eversource Energy
Smart Detection, Safer Grid: AI-Powered HPFF Monitoring
Salt River Project
IBR Operational Readiness
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
Crew on Site Tagging for Safe, Automated Switching
Ameren Illinois
Driving Efficiency: Automating Fleet Invoice Processing with RPA
Arizona Public Service (APS)
Virtual Power Plant for Targeted Grid Support
Southern Company
Three innovations advancing forecasting and operations
Southern Company
Veriforce WorkerPass for contractor safety and qualification

Selected from more than fifty member submissions. The full write-up, published in Public Utilities Fortnightly, is available here.

Every recipient since 2017
The 2026 Achievement Awards

This year is closed. The celebration comes next.

Submissions closed July 17, and winners will be notified in September. They will be recognized on stage at AEIC's 142nd Annual Meeting in Ojai, California, October 20 to 22.

Apr 1
Nominations open
Jul 17
Submission deadline
Sep 1
Winners notified
Oct 20–22
Presented at the Annual Meeting
Award categories
SafetyGeneration & StorageTransmission & DistributionCustomer ServiceDistributed Energy ResourcesElectrificationData AnalyticsWorkforce DevelopmentOther Corporate Initiatives
Why submit

Recognition on stage

Winners are named in front of the senior operating leadership of the industry, with the President's Award as AEIC's highest honor. The whole membership sees the work.

Coverage beyond the room

The recipients are written up for the industry to read. The 2025 class was published in Public Utilities Fortnightly.

Validation for your team

Selection is by an Awards Review Committee drawn from the AEIC Board. For the people who built the project, that is external proof the work mattered.

How it works

Who can nominate

AEIC Board members, member-company executives, and committee, subcommittee, or council chairs.

What to submit

A completed nomination form, a project summary of up to three pages, and a video of five minutes or less highlighting the impact. Up to five nominations per company.

How winners are chosen

Final selection is made by an Awards Review Committee drawn from the AEIC Board of Directors. Nominations must demonstrate measurable results or proven success.

Nominations for the 2027 Achievement Awards open in the spring. Watch this page and your member communications for the call.

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