Tell Us Your Top Innovators

At Public Utilities Fortnightly, it's that time again. To recognize Fortnightly Top Innovators 2025.

Tell us your utility’s top innovators.  Whether you’re at a utility.  Or know of a utility’s innovators deserving of recognition.

Nominees can be individuals making breakthroughs in utility reliability, affordability, safety, and environmental quality.  And teams of individuals doing so too.

This year’s Fortnightly Top Innovators event will take place as usual at the historic Willard hotel near the White House. The awards ceremonies are scheduled for Monday October 6 and Tuesday October 7, for the fourteen categories of innovation in utility service.

And the Edison Pioneers Innovation of the Year Award as well. Honoring collaboration among companies in innovation.

The event's opening reception is set for that Sunday evening October 5. Then, on Monday October 6 and Tuesday October 7, there will be a mix of award ceremonies and conversations onstage with utility innovation leaders. And of course, the grand reception in the elegance of the Willard on the evening of October 6.

As usual for Public Utilities Fortnightly events, they are invite-only, off-the-record, and most importantly, PowerPoint-free. That way we have at our events, meaningful conversations, rather than scripted presentations.

So, start preparing your nominations. The due date for nominations is July 10.

An electric, gas, and water utility, please remember, can submit multiple nominations, and can win the honor in more than one category. That's what happened two years ago for innovators at Arizona Public Service, Exelon, and Puget Sound Energy, and last year for innovators at Ameren, Exelon, and Pacific Gas & Electric.

The fourteen categories of innovation in utility service are as usual:

Edith Clarke Top Innovator in the Reliability of Utility Service
Lewis Latimer Top Innovator in Technology or Process Design
George Westinghouse Top Innovator in Leadership in Innovation
Bertha Lamme Top Innovator in Power Generation
Charles Steinmetz Top Innovator in Network or Grid Operations
Nancy Fitzroy Top Innovator in Environment and Safety
Maria Telkes Top Innovator in Distributed Energy
Francis Upton Top Innovator in Analytics for Utility Service
William Hammer Top Innovator in Electrification
John Beggs Top Innovator in the Energy Transition
Mabel MacFerran Top Innovator in Energy Storage
Florence Fogler Top Innovator in Energy Transmission Technologies
Alan Turing Top Innovator in Cybersecurity
Nikola Tesla Top Innovator in Artificial Intelligence

Here's the Nomination Form for Fortnightly Top Innovators 2025 as a three page PDF. You can also access the link by typing https://www.fortnightly.com/sites/default/files/TopInnovators2025Nominat....