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ATLANTA — April 12, 2025 — PowerPlan, Inc., a leading provider of financial software solutions for the energy industry, recently concluded its ELEVATE 2025 user conference in Atlanta. The event brought together accounting, tax, and IT professionals from the utilities industry to network and share ideas. With over 70 sessions, ELEVATE focused on best practices, training, product demonstrations, customer case studies, and thought leadership.
ELEVATE 2025’s March 24 General Session featured an award ceremony honoring PowerPlan customers for outstanding business results, transformative processes, innovative solutions, and significant contributions to product advancements. Five awards were presented, with winners in the following categories:
Innovation Award: Entergy
This year’s Innovation Award honored Entergy for their long-term partnership in developing the full functionality of PowerPlan’s Tax Provision product. Their advocacy and engagement were instrumental in ensuring that the Tax Basis Balance Sheet functionality meets industry needs. Entergy continues to innovate with Tax Provision NXT, informing critical features such as integration, payable account reconciliations, and the management of tax records.
Customer Achievement Award: Liberty Utilities
Liberty Utilities was recognized with the Customer Achievement Award for successfully completing a five-year ERP Transformation program. They implemented an integrated SAP S/4 and PowerPlan solution in the cloud, fully integrating over 160 entities. The resulting cohesive IT platform delivers insights into both operational and financial data, which improves control over organizational processes and enhances data consistency.
Impact Award: Duke Energy
Duke Energy received the Impact Award for their participation as a Beta customer for Tax Fixed Assets. The collaboration focused on challenges they faced around reporting and analytics, and their ongoing partnership led to the development of Data Hub for TFA, ensuring all their reporting needs were met and strategic insights delivered.
Transformation Award: Berkshire Hathaway Energy
Berkshire Hathaway Energy was honored with the Transformation Award for their multi-year, multi-opco, multi-platform consolidation into a utility standard footprint of Oracle Fusion, PowerPlan, and Maximo. This transformation will provide a single platform for global operations and allow for streamlining business processes, scaling the business, and enhancing data management.
Collaborator Award: TECO Energy and Norfolk Southern
The Collaborator Award was shared by TECO Energy and Norfolk Southern. TECO Energy was recognized for their decision to move to the cloud and leverage PowerPlan's full Connect suite, accelerating the benefits of cloud and ensuring a sustainable integration model. Norfolk Southern was honored for their ongoing collaboration with PowerPlan, particularly in ensuring the Tax Fixed Assets product fits their market segment.
“It’s important to celebrate our customers’ successes,” said Lee Watkins, Chief Strategy Officer, PowerPlan, during the awards ceremony at ELEVATE. “Hard work and challenging projects often go unnoticed, making it crucial to thank the teams involved and share invaluable learnings with industry colleagues and peers. It's an honor to recognize our winners at ELEVATE.”
PowerPlan’s next ELEVATE conference will be held in October 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee.
About PowerPlan
For more than 30 years, PowerPlan has helped utility and energy companies make the right financial decisions to improve lives and power the world. Through our industry-leading expertise, innovative technology, and vast experience listening to and working in tandem with our clients, PowerPlan software sets the standard that CFOs can count on for financial clarity. PowerPlan operates as an independent subsidiary of Roper Technologies (Nasdaq: ROP) a constituent of the Nasdaq 100, S&P 500, and Fortune 1000. For more information, visit www.powerplan.com.