Terence Donnelly participated in Pipelines and Power Lines: The Future of U.S. Energy Infrastructure and the Implications for Clean Energy. They are otherwise unassociated with EPIC.
As president and chief operating officer, Donnelly is responsible for leading ComEd’s overall performance in the areas of service reliability, operations, engineering, construction, safety, customer satisfaction, financial management and smart grid development, including the implementation of one of the nation’s first utility-operated microgrid clusters in Chicago. He has led the company in improving energy reliability for customers by an unprecedented 70 percent.
ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon. ComEd is the largest electric utility in Illinois and includes one of the largest urban power grids in the nation. The company employs more than 6,000 people and delivers electricity to over 4 million residential and business customers across northern Illinois – 70 percent of the state’s population – including the City of Chicago.
Exelon is one of the nation’s largest energy providers. The company has one of the industry’s largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity, with a nationwide reach and strong positions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Exelon distributes electricity and natural gas to approximately 10 million customers in northern Illinois, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Exelon is a Fortune 100 company headquartered in Chicago and trades on Nasdaq under the ticker EXC.