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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. The 2025 awards drew more than fifty member submissions, announced at the 141st Annual Meeting in Charleston.

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The best work in the industry, on stage.

2025 recipients

The 2025 recipients.

Recognized for innovative, transformational solutions to the industry's hardest operational problems, with measurable results. Florida Power & Light received the President's Award, AEIC's highest honor. The full roster of recipients is in the official write-up.

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.

The 2026 Achievement Awards

Put your team's work forward.

Presented at the 142nd Annual Meeting in Ojai. Member companies can submit their most consequential projects, with measurable results, across nine categories.

Apr 1
Nominations open
Jul 1
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

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.

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