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IEEE PES Executive Advisory Council

Executive Advisory Council

The Executive Advisory Council (EAC) provides strategic support to the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Board of Directors (BOD) to help the PES provide more benefits to industry members, better communicate those benefits to the membership, champion IEEE PES collaboration and engagement goals, support the long-range planning process and lead efforts to leverage those benefits in their respective organizations and for the overall industry. 

The EAC members are executives who promote active participation by their employees in all IEEE PES activities, as well as promote IEEE PES to other executives and their employees. To serve as a member of the EAC is an honor afforded to those individuals who have a track record of support of IEEE PES and our industry at a senior level within their enterprise. They embrace the responsibilities of EAC membership. In return, they have a unique voice in the future of IEEE PES across initiatives, membership, and technical publications. They also become a member of a senior cohort in our Society and can work with likeminded senior executives to address major market, regulatory, financial and personnel challenges. It is a unique level of access to industry intelligence and leadership and it should be considered a privilege to serve.

Membership in the EAC is by invitation of the Chair. EAC members or other IEEE PES members my nominate executives to the Chair to be contacted about availability and interest.

Mission

The Executive Advisory Council (EAC) provides strategic support to the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Board of Directors (BOD) to:

  • Help the PES provide more benefits to industry members and better communicate those benefits to the membership
  • Lead efforts to leverage those benefits in their respective organizations and with the overall industry and society.
  • Address industry issues and trends and share it across the industry and society.
  • Support the long-range planning process.
  • Review and initiate specific initiatives by working closely with IEEE PES Industry Technical Support Leadership Committee (ITS LC).
  • Champion IEEE PES collaboration and engagement goals

Vision

To provide industry executive advice to the Power and Energy Society (PES) Governing Board and the IEEE Industry Technical Support Leadership Committee to increase the society’s relevance to the electric power industry and its ecosystem.

Plans

  • Suggest new topics to be addressed by IEEE PES Industry Technical Support Leadership Committee (ITSLC) and other Technical Committees in appropriate format such as white papers, webinars, tutorials, etc.
  • Either personally or through appointed company employees lead, support, and review the content developed by IEEE PES committees.
  • Identify any changes to existing or new IEEE Standards which are needed in the future to support industry changes and pass them on to the VP of Technical Activities.
  • Institutionalize communication with industry executives and EAC members with the latest new technical information.
  • Be supportive of company employees’ active participation in IEEE. Champion PES involvement by a significant portion of company employees at all levels of PES.
    1. Have at least 30% of degreed engineers be PES members and active at the local level.
    2. Have at least the lesser of 10 or 10% of engineers participate at the national working group level.
    3. Have at least the lesser of 5 or 5% of engineers be active members of IEEE PES technical committees.
    4. Attendance to applicable PES conferences and General Meeting.
    5. Represent the company on industry panels at PES meetings.
    6. Support the health of the local PES chapter where applicable.
    7. Engagement in PES Chapter and PES Technical Committee leadership as a potential development opportunity.
  • Participate and grow through the various relationships with industry organizations such as FERC, NERC, US DOE, EEI, NATF, CIGRE, NARUC, etc.
  • Develop a list of industry (traditional and non-traditional) executives who can be members of the EAC.  Also work to expand the types of companies represented to increase the breadth of IEEE PES.
  • Develop a recognition plan for members and companies of the EAC.
  • In collaboration with PES marketing develop a marketing and communications plan for increasing the visibility of what the EAC is and get awareness to C-Level industry members.
  • Develop a strategy to relate to US governmental organizations and congress on pertinent energy issues in collaboration with the IEEE USA Energy Policy Committee (EPC).

Relationship within IEEE PES

The EAC Chair is approved by the IEEE PES President and provides strategic support to the IEEE PES Governing Board. ITSLC leads and executes initiatives recommended by EAC and engages EAC members and their employees in its activities.

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EAC Accomplishments

The EAC contributed to and reviewed the following initiatives developed by the ITS LC: The EAC members have been actively participating at several IEEE PES conferences and as panelists and have promoted active participation of their employees. They were actively engaged in brainstorming on industry trends and priorities with IEEE PES leadership at the IEEE PES General Meeting. They also provided an executive perspective on how to support IEEE PES members better.