Public Power - July/August 2008 - (Page 36) By the Numbers BY JEAN N E LABELLA unlikely it seemed. A baby girl, Maude, was born in Germany, to a French mother, in the decade following the end of World War II. She grew up in France, When she was eight years old, she moved to the United States for three years. During that period, she learned to speak English. At age 11, she returned to France. Years later, she married an American and returned to the United States. Few people would have predicted that the little European lass would grow up to become chief executive officer of an electric utility. Numbers and fate brought Maude Grantham-Richards to the electric utility industry. She did not go to college to be a power engineer. She studied accounting. She married in the early 1970s and traveled with her husband to military assignments in seven states. She returned to Europe once more, then moved to New Mexico in 1974, where she has lived ever since. Her electric utility career began in January 1975, when she took a job as an accounts payable clerk for Plains Generation & Transmission Cooperative. Her bosses liked her facility with math, and asked her if she would like to work in system operations. She jumped at the opportunity. “Accounting is so boring,” she said. She likes working in a small organization, where each person can get involved in multiple aspects of the business. She and her boss at Plains G&T started the cooperative’s system operations center and launched its supervisory control and data acquisition system. In 1982, the utility brought a new coal plant on line, which led her to a stint in fuel purchasing. She stayed at Plains G&T until 1993, when she accepted a job with Public Service Co. of Colorado, where she worked first in power supply contract management and later in system operations. But, her stay at Photo by John Whitman How Maude Grantham-Richards has two pieces of advice for public power utilities during her year as chair of the APPA board: invest in energy efficiency first and make sure customers understand the challenges utilities face in meeting demand for electricity. 36 JULY-AUGUST 2008 PUBLIC POWER
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