AWE in the News

Join us at the 2024 Power Matters Conference on February 20, 2024.  The Agenda and Conference Details can be found here. Tuesday, February 20, 2024 8am - 4pm Austin Texas Annual Power Matters Conference Impacts of Changes in Generation Register Here

Legislative Update Friday, September 29, 2023 3:00 – 6:30 PM Located at McGinnis Lochridge 1111 W 6th St Bldg B, Ste 400 Austin, Texas Join fellow members of the Association of Women in Energy in Austin, Texas for this educational and networking event which will provide an overview of those key bills from the 88th [...]

Gain additional education in your field to reach your career goals in 2023! This years Annual Power Matters Conference focuses on Challenges in Energy Development with panels on Permitting, Transmission, Supply Chain, and Policy. Hear from Developers, Utilities, and Industry Experts. Featuring keynote speaker Elaina Ball, Senior Vice President Power Delivery with Entergy; who will speak on [...]

ABJ Staff - Austin Business Journal - Oct. 3, 2019 Imagine in your mind's eye a Central Texas nonprofit — do you think of an electrical utility providing power to thousands of customers spread across the Hill Country? Perhaps not. But Pedernales Electric Cooperative Inc. is a nonprofit, and a successful one at that. It [...]

Pedernales Electric Cooperative Inc., the Johnson City-based electricity provider that supplies swaths of the Hill Country and Austin suburbs with power, has a new CEO — the first woman to hold the post in the organization's nearly 80-year history. The nonprofit co-op's board of directors voted Oct. 26 to name JulieParsley as chief executive. She [...]

One of our esteemed AWE Board Members, Karen R. Johnson, passed away on June 5, 2016.  She was a devoted wife, loving mother, caring mentor, and dear friend to many. Karen was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and St. Mary’s Law School, and she served in many roles throughout her forty-year [...]

EL PASO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The El Paso Electric Company (EPE) (NYSE:EE) Board of Directors announces that Mary Kipp, President of EPE, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), today, December 15, 2015. Thomas V. Shockley, who has served as CEO for EPE since 2012, has fulfilled his contract and will continue to play a vital […]

“There are a lot of women in this industry. To have an organization that helps women know what the issues are, introduces them to the people they need to meet and network … I thought, nothing better could I do than give back some of what I’ve learned in 40 years of my professional career in the energy & power industries,” said Becky Motal of her new position as president & Chairman of the Board for the Association of Women in Energy.

Motal has much to share about the growing number of women in the Oil & Gas Industry.

Professional women in energy meet to discuss the value of diverse fuel resources Today’s energy industry is abuzz with debate over how to address climate change, increase the use of wind and solar, help customers generate their own electricity, and continue to provide enough power to keep industries and traffic lights operating twenty-four hours a […]

When Becky Motal announced her retirement as general manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority effective at the end of last year, most anybody who knew her likely had the same thought: This will never last. Sure enough, in February she was named president and chairman of the Association of Women in Energy, a relatively […]