Each year AEIC's Achievement Awards honor member projects that move operational excellence forward. The 2026 winners were named and celebrated on stage at the 142nd Annual Meeting in Ojai on October 22: twelve projects from ten member companies. We are grateful to every company that put its best work forward.
Twelve projects from ten member utilities, selected from fifty nominations by a review committee of member utility executives who scored the shortlist blind. Each one is in live operation with measurable results.
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients, recognized for transformational solutions to the industry's hardest operational problems, with measurable results.
Selected from more than fifty member submissions. The full write-up, published in Public Utilities Fortnightly, is available here.
Twelve projects from ten member companies were recognized on stage at AEIC's 142nd Annual Meeting in Ojai, California, on October 22. The 2026 cycle ran on the dates below; the 2027 call for nominations will be posted here.
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.
The recipients are written up for the industry to read. The 2025 class was published in Public Utilities Fortnightly.
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.
AEIC Board members, member-company executives, and committee, subcommittee, or council chairs.
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.
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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