There is no time like the present to prepare for an uncertain future.
That’s the message Southern California Edison President and CEO Steve Powell delivered to industry leaders gathered recently at the Electric Power Research Institute Electrification 2022 conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“All utilities need to be not just the enabler that makes the grid work and brings it clean energy, we have to be pushing on other industries, on our customers, on policymakers, to make sure that electrification happens,” he said.
Powell expressed confidence that industry has the engineering and technical capabilities to accomplish the clean energy transformation outlined in SCE’s Pathway 2045, a data-driven analysisof the steps California must take to clean the electricity grid and reach carbon neutrality.
“It can be done, and as an…