• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
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  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Chris Womack

Southern Company

Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer

Chris Womack is president and CEO of Southern Company, one of the nation’s premier energy providers. He previously served as chairman, president and CEO of Georgia Power, the largest subsidiary of Southern Company. Prior to leading Georgia Power, he served as executive vice president and president of external affairs for Southern Company. A native of Greenville, Alabama, Womack joined Southern Company in 1988 and has held several leadership positions within Southern Company and its subsidiaries. He has served as executive vice president of external affairs at Georgia Power and senior vice president and senior production officer of Southern Company Generation, where he was responsible for coal, gas and hydro generation for Georgia Power and Savannah Electric. Womack also served as senior vice president of human resources and chief people officer at Southern Company, as well as senior vice president of public relations and corporate services at Alabama Power.

Sessions With Chris Womack

Thursday, 21 March

  • 09:45am - 10:20am (CST) / 21/mar/2024 02:45 pm - 21/mar/2024 03:20 pm

    Building the (Big) Grid of the Future
    Power/Clean Power

    The electric power sector is at the forefront of the energy transition. Renewables are rapidly replacing fossil fuel power plants while electric vehicles (EVs), heat pumps, industrial electrification and other emerging technologies are transforming the way energy is distributed and consumed. What are the key challenges as governments and companies work to modernize the grid? How can we maintain reliability in the face of more intermittent resources and more extreme weather? What are the building blocks of smarter and stronger grids?