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Terrance Donnelly - Comed

A 40 year veteran of the electric and gas utility business, Terence Donnelly recently wrapped up this stage of his career after serving 21 years at PECO of Philadelphia and 19 years at ComEd of Chicago. In his tenure as president and chief operating officer at ComEd, Donnelly was responsible for ComEd’s transformational journey in performance in the areas of service reliability, operations, engineering, construction, safety, customer and employee satisfaction, financial management and advanced  grid development, including the implementation of one of the nation’s first utility-operated microgrid clusters in Chicago. He also significantly expanded partnerships with communities, vendors and research including multiple grants with the Department of Energy involving advanced grid operations for a future of electrification and high penetration renewables.

Donnelly orchestrated a massive turnaround for ComEd across a broad range of industry leading performance outcomes. He led the company in improving energy reliability for customers by an unprecedented 70 percent resulting in ComEd being named the most reliable electric utility in the nation for 2023 by PA consulting at their annual ReliabilityOne awards presentation.

Donnelly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Temple University.

PECO,  a unit of Chicago-based Exelon, is an electric and gas utility that serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

ComEd is also unit of Chicago-based Exelon. ComEd is one of the largest urban power grids in the nation serving a population of over 9 million people including the City of Chicago.  The company employs more than 6,000 people.