Terry
Boston
President and Chief Executive Officer
PJM Interconnection
Mr. Boston has served for the past six years as CEO of PJM Interconnection, the largest power grid in North America and the largest electricity market in the world.
Mr. Boston is president of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies and past president of
GO 15, the association of the world’s largest power grid operators. He also served as a U.S. vice president of the International Council of Large Electric Systems.
Mr. Boston is past chair of the North American Transmission Forum, dedicated to excellence in performance and sharing industry best practices. He also was one of the eight industry experts selected to direct the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) investigation of the August 2003 Northeast/Midwest blackout.
In 2011, Mr. Boston was honored with the “Leadership in Power” award from the IEEE Power and Energy Society. He also was chosen by Intelligent Utilities Magazine as one of the Top 11 Industry Movers and Shakers, and led PJM to win Platts Global Energy Awards in Industry Leadership 2010 and Excellence in Electricity in 2012.
Prior to joining PJM, Mr. Boston was the executive vice president of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power provider. In his 35 years at TVA, Mr. Boston directed divisions in transmission and power operations, pricing, contracts and electric system reliability.
He served three years as chairman of the Southeastern Electric Reliability Council Board and serves on the boards of non-profits such as the Electric Power Research Institute and Grid Protection Alliance. He previously served on the NERC Stakeholders Board and was elected to the NERC Members Representative Committee.
Mr. Boston holds a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Tennessee Technological University and a Master of Science in engineering administration from the University of Tennessee.