The mission of AEIC's Center for Operational Excellence is to give the electricity industry authoritative information as the basis for decision-making on local, state, and federal infrastructure investments. The Center facilitates industry projects on the critical issues utilities face, from supply chain and grid storage to electrification and beyond.
The Center expands AEIC's role as the electric utility industry's trusted forum for operational excellence. It brings together insights from our committees, member initiatives, strategic workshops, and publications to help utility leaders address real operational challenges.
Organized around AEIC's Integrated System Planning and Operations Data Strategy Framework, the Center connects strategy to execution, equipping utilities with practical guidance and data-informed perspectives that support better decisions and stronger performance.
Funding, staffing, and credibility are the barriers that stall the projects the industry most needs. The Center is built to clear them.
The Center helps advance initiatives through concept development support, funding pursuit, and stakeholder coordination, so the right projects get off the ground.
AEIC is the one place electric utility operations leaders come together to share knowledge and collaborate on real-world challenges, and the Center's programs are open to members and non-members alike, bringing non-member companies and stakeholders into the work.
Founded in 1885, AEIC brings together leading operations experts from more than 190 public and private electric utilities and organizations. That is the authority behind every project the Center takes on.
The Center's Critical Issue Forums are working sessions where utility leaders address the operational challenges of a changing energy system, from data center load and energy storage to next-generation control centers and grid resilience.
They run on AEIC's Integrated System Planning and Operations Data Strategy Framework, and are supported in part by funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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The Center convenes the forums, working groups, and programs that turn shared operating problems into shared answers the whole industry can use.
Working sessions on the issues utilities are facing right now, from data center load and energy storage to next-generation control centers and grid resilience.
Building the shared data foundation for utility digital transformation, so member data speaks a common language.
Hagen HaentschOncorA utility-led cohort advancing grid modernization technology and R&D across member systems.
The peer reference for large-load interconnection, contracting, and operating practice.
Rob LockeDominion Energy
Jacob TetlowArizona Public ServiceA working group optimizing cost and technology decisions across the Center's operational programs.
A working cohort sharpening forecasting practice across methods, tools, and data pipelines.
An executive course on analytics and AI fluency, built for utility leaders and their teams.
A six-module AI cohort for utility managers, process owners, and supervisors, built around a real problem and a 90-day plan.
Critical Issue Forums, working-group sessions, executive education, and webinars across the Center's programs.
A growing repository of video series, workshop summaries, and publications from AEIC's operational work.
The Center is led by AEIC's executive team and governed by operating leaders from across the member utilities.
The Center launched with the support of founding partners who share its premise: the industry moves faster when the people running the grid solve problems together.
The Center's Critical Issue Forums are also supported in part by funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Sponsor and engage with AEIC across the Annual Meeting, committee meetings, Ops Center workshops, and charitable support. Educational, practitioner-focused, and built around member value.
Explore partnershipAEIC holds a unique and important position in the electric industry today as the only place where leaders from most major electric utilities come together to share knowledge, collaborate, and provide guidance to the industry.
Founded in 1885 by the Edison illuminating companies, AEIC has been a federation of operating utilities ever since. The Center for Operational Excellence is how that 140-year forum points its collective experience at the problems coming next.
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