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The Current

AEIC’s monthly, in one short read.

The Current carries the month's events, member highlights, and updates from the committees and the Center for Operational Excellence. Substance from the people doing the work, not a marketing blast.

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August 2026.

Featured event

142nd Annual Meeting, two months out

Eight member-led panels and two fireside chats are taking shape for October 20 to 22 at the Ojai Valley Inn, with operators from across the membership in the chairs rather than outside voices talking about utilities.

Center for Operational Excellence

Members are asking each other the hard questions

Power Delivery members put a series of information requests to each other this summer, on questions of field practice few utilities have ever compared side by side. Findings return to the member who raised the question, de-identified.

Events

Fall meeting season is set

Thirteen meetings, workshops and forums run from mid-September through November, and every one of them now has its dates, host, venue and registration link on a single page.

Previous issues

Back issues.

July 2026

A new home for the work

AEIC.org was rebuilt from the ground up and went live, alongside aeicopscenter.org as the home of the Ops Center. Quanta Services opened the Founding Donor series, and Achievement Awards nominations closed.

June 2026

Two utilities, one pattern

Registration and hotel booking opened for Ojai, and at Data Framework Meeting 4 Southern Company and Oncor arrived at the same four conditions for getting AI and data work off the ground, from different starting points.

Why it exists

AEIC brings utility leaders together in a trusted, non-competitive forum to solve real operational challenges and modernize the grid. The Current is how that work stays visible between meetings: what shipped, what is coming, and who across the membership is worth watching.

It goes out monthly. Members receive it automatically; the archive lives in the Member Portal.

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