2007 Industry Excellence Awards Winners List

Chairman's Award
This is a special award to honor the one project that is considered the “Best of the Best.” This award is designated by the conference chairman and honors the project deemed most outstanding of all the category winners. This year’s winner is...

MISSISSIPPI POWER COMPANY
Building Back Better, Stronger and Safely in the Pascagoula Marsh:
Rebuild of the Ocean Springs – Moss Point East 230kV Transmission Line
Mississippi Power Company & Southern Company Transmission

Distribution Category
ALABAMA POWER COMPANY
Underground Distribution Reliability by Automatic Feeder Reconfiguration and Fault Isolation
Stephen Daniel, Bob Cheney, Donald Parker, Tom Garlington, Curtis Massey
Environmental Category
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY
Columbia Hydroelectric Fish Passage
Harold Moxley, Paul Cyr, Hal Riddle, Bill Argentieri, Willie Smith
Production Category
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY
Saluda Dam Remediation
Jim Landreth, Randy Mahan, Mike Summer, Bill Argentieri, Harold Moxley,
Ray Ammarell, Mark Estes, John Windham, Ginger Keller
Substation Category
BALTIMORE GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
Centralized Capacitor Control Project
Michael Smith, Gerard Schmitt, Catherine Baseman, Vladimir Bash, Claude Peacock,
Howard Abdur-Rahman, Reshma Ramdoss, James Hildebrand, Albert Alfred
Transmission Category
AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER
AEP’s Jackson’s Ferry – Wyoming 765kV Transmission Line Utilizing a Six-Conductor Bundle
Ronald Poff, Archie Pugh, Tim Earhart, Kelly Bledsoe, Dale Williams, Bruce Freimark, Carl Persing, Teja Rao
Real Estate & Right of Way Category
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY
Remote Access to SCE&G Right of Way Files
Nikki Sansbury, Tom Fox
Accounting & Financing Category
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY/SOUTHERN COMPANY
Southern Company Online Survey Tool
Dan Lowery, Karen Lehner, Richard Dodd, Adam Bowen
Customer Service & Billing Category - TIE
ENTERGY CORPORATION
Hurricanes Katrina’s & Rita’s Challenges to Customer Service
Phillip Sharp, Steven Lee, Lisa Schultz, Carl Fruge, Robert Adams,
David Lewis, Patricia Waters, Dolores Stokes

MISSISSIPPI POWER COMPANY
Hurricane Katrina Recovery
Joe Gentile, Jimmy Nelson, Billy Browning, Ronnie Page

Internal Audit Category
CLECO CORPORATION
SOX vs. CAT
Paul Bordelon, Cody Carraway, Missy Lohman, Stacey Spears
Rates & Regulation Category
PROGRESS ENERGY FLORIDA
Neighborhood Energy Saver – The Weatherization Program Designed to Assist Low-Income
Families with Escalating Energy Costs
DSM & Alternative Energy Strategy and Energy Efficiency Services

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