BRAND-NEW ORLEANS, June 3, 2025/ PRNewswire/– Calvin Butler, president and CEO of Chicago– based Exelon, today was chosen chair of the board of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the nationwide association of investor-owned electrical business. David Campbell, chairman and CEO of Kansas City, Mo.– based Evergy, and Chris Womack, chairman, president, and CEO of Atlanta– based Southern Business, were chosen vice chairs.
EEI’s Board chose Butler, Campbell, and Womack throughout the institute’s yearly conference in New Orleans EEI’s chair turns on a yearly basis, and Butler is successful Maria Pope, president and CEO of Portland, Ore.– based Portland General Electric.
” EEI and our member electrical business are grateful to Maria Pope for her strong and unfaltering management as EEI chair,” stated EEI interim President and CEO Pat Vincent-Collawn “Maria’s dedication to supplying consumers with safe, reputable, and resistant tidy energy and to bringing brand-new energy options forward is steadfast. She has actually contributed in forming a multi-year tactical roadmap for our members that focuses on client price, and she continues to play a vital function in assisting our market determine thorough nationwide options to alleviate dangers from wildfires.”
” We likewise are happy to reveal that Calvin Butler was chosen EEI Chair for the 2025-2026 cycle,” included Vincent-Collawn. “With need for electrical power increasing at the fastest rate in years, Calvin’s management will be necessary as EEI’s member business work to advance our shared policy concerns and to provide the reputable, safe and secure electrical power that powers our country’s economy.”
” Our market stands at an amazing crossroad, with brand-new obstacles, historical levels of financial investment, and growing innovations like expert system that are redefining America’s energy future,” stated Butler, who most just recently acted as an EEI vice chair. “I eagerly anticipate dealing with EEI and its member business to guarantee that we continue to satisfy the developing requirements and expectations of our consumers, while at the exact same time working to keep their expenses as low as possible.”
Calvin Butler is president and CEO of Exelon, the moms and dad business of 6 regional energy business, consisting of Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO, and Pepco. Together, they serve around 10.7 million electrical and gas consumers in New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia
David Campbell signed up with Evergy in January 2021 as president and CEO and, in Might 2024, ended up being chairman and CEO. Under Campbell’s management, Evergy concentrates on supplying safe, inexpensive, and reputable service to its 1.7 million electrical consumers in Kansas and Missouri
Chris Womack is the chairman, president, and CEO of Southern Business, which serves 9 million electrical and gas consumers and companies in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia Under Womack’s management, Southern Business and its subsidiaries are leading manufacturers of tidy, safe, reputable, and inexpensive energy, and leading innovators in the energy market.
EEI is the association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electrical business. Our members offer safe, reputable electrical power for almost 250 million Americans, and run in all 50 states and the District of Columbia As an entire, the electrical power market supports more than 7 million tasks in neighborhoods throughout the United States In addition to our U.S. members, EEI has more than 70 worldwide electrical business, with operations in more than 90 nations, as International Members, and numerous market providers and associated companies as Partner Members.
SOURCE Edison Electric Institute