Daniel Carr develops and implements strategies to support customers’ electrification goals while creating opportunities for utility evolution. In his role of Head, Smart Cities at Alectra Utilities, he leads projects that bring new distributed energy technologies and concepts into practice, with a focus on electric mobility, customer engagement and electricity pricing. These initiatives have touched thousands of customers and have won awards from SEPA, PLMA and CEA for Alectra, Canada’s largest municipally owned utility. He aspires to enable customers to benefit from the transformative changes taking place in the electricity system and to support cities in fulfilling their unique and critical role in helping communities adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change.