Electric Utility Operations

Designed to help field supervisors improve the productivity and safety of their field workforce by focusing on issues related to linemen such as fall protection, storm response and infrastructure upgrades.

Highlights

Photo courtesy of ComEd.
Andrea Simmons, ComEd crew leader, demonstrates how to climb a utility pole to participants of a March 2025 Women’s Climb Clinic for a first-hand look at what it takes to join the electrical trades.
May 29, 2025
The Illinois utility shares five of its diversity strategies to recruit and train diverse candidates and keep them safe in the field.
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May 16, 2025
Vincent Napolitano, an apprentice at Ameren Illinois, competed at the 2024 International Lineman's Rodeo and enjoys training others new to the line trade.
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May 6, 2025
By listening to this audio story, lineworkers can discover ways to find and eliminate the noise.
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May 2, 2025
Ryan Lucas, a journeyman lineworker and host of the Powerline Podcast, describes how he shares stories about the line trade through the power of podcasting.
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April 18, 2025
This episode shines the spotlight on Arthur William Muñoz, one of the past volunteers for the Light Up Navajo project and a section supervisor for Salt River Project.

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