Discover the T&D World Live 2024 host utilities

T&D World Live is pleased to announce that Southern Company, Georgia Transmission and Cobb EMC will be the host utilities for the third annual T&D World Live, taking place October 1-3, 2024, in vibrant Atlanta, in Georgia.

These host utilities will play a central role in the event by sharing expertise, showcasing innovative solutions and facilitating critical conversations about grid transformation. Their involvement highlights the importance of collaboration in navigating the complexities of the evolving energy landscape.

Get to know the host utilities:

Southern Company: Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Southern Company serves 9 million customers through its subsidiaries. The company provides clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy through electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company serving customers wholesalers across America, a distributed energy infrastructure company, fiber optic network and telecommunications services. .

Transmission in Georgia: Georgia Transmission is an electric cooperative owned by the 38 Georgia EMCs it serves. They are responsible for planning, constructing and maintaining high-voltage transmission lines and substations that transport electricity from generation facilities to the local CEM.

Cobb EMC: Cobb EMC is a member-owned, not-for-profit electric cooperative. The company safely provides reliable electricity to nearly 200,000 residential and commercial consumers in Cobb, Bartow, Cherokee, Fulton and Paulding counties. Cobb EMC is one of the largest EMCs in the country, and the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Gas South, is a natural gas supplier in the Southeast.

Attend the general session to hear about industry trends from host utilities:

Tuesday October 1, 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

During this first general session of T&D World Live, executives from each of T&D World Live’s three host utilities (Georgia Power, Georgia Transmission Co. and Cobb EMC) will discuss national and regional industry trends, and highlight some of the latest innovative projects implemented in each of their public services. Additionally, the three panelists will answer questions from the audience.

The panelists:

Tim Jarrell, Cobb Electric Membership Corporation: Tim is Vice President of Power, Rates and DER Strategy for Cobb EMC. Tim’s team is responsible for all power planning, contracts and compliance, residential and commercial rate design, and distributed energy resource projects and strategies. In this role, Cobb EMC expanded its renewable energy portfolio by more than 400% and implemented an on-campus solar and battery energy storage project as well as an on-campus microgrid. Prior to this role, Tim served as Cobb EMC’s Associate Vice President for Information Systems Programs and Project Management Office.

Tim holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing management from Florida State University, a master’s degree in organizational management from the University of Phoenix, and additional postgraduate work in accounting and finance from the Keller Graduate School of Management.

Keith Daniel, Georgia Transmission: Keith is Senior Vice President of Transportation Policy at Georgia Transmission, a position he has held since 2014. In this role, he is responsible for leading transportation policy issues within the Tucker-based electric transmission cooperative . Additionally, he provides leadership and strategic oversight of system planning, rate management, generation interconnections, system reliability, system protection, emerging technologies, member relations and the organization’s relationship with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Immediately prior to his current role, Daniel served as Vice President of Transmission Policy. Since joining the cooperative in 1988, he has held various roles of increasing responsibility within the organization. Additionally, Daniel represents Georgia Transmission on the North American Transmission Forum (NATF), Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative, and Southeastern Regional Transmission Planning.

Daniel received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and his MBA from Georgia State University.

Rachel Williams, Georgia Power: Rachel is the Vice President of Transmission Field Operations at Georgia Power. In this role, she leads the strategic direction of transportation construction, transportation maintenance and support and project management, as well as transportation investment portfolio management.

Prior to her current role, Williams served as director of Georgia Power’s grid investment program, setting the strategic direction to ensure successful execution of the 2023-2025 plan to invest $1.4 billion in spending capital in our transmission and distribution system to ensure optimal reliability and performance. and affordability. She has over 26 years of experience in the electric utility industry, specializing in electric delivery operations, and has held various roles and responsibilities across all of Southern Company’s electric utilities and from Southern Company Services.

She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Power Systems and an MBA in Finance from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.