Rachel Williams serves as vice president of Transmission Field Operations at Georgia Power. In this role, she leads the strategic direction for Transmission Construction, Transmission Maintenance and Support and Project Management along with managing the Transmission capital portfolio during a pivotal period of significant growth, ensuring the continued reliability and expansion of Georgia Power's transmission infrastructure.

Prior to her current role, Williams served as director of Georgia Power’s Grid Investment Program establishing the strategic direction to ensure the successful execution of the 2023-2025 plan to invest $1.4 billion of capital expenditures in our Transmission and Distribution system to ensure optimal reliability, performance and affordability. She has over 27 years of experience in the electric utility industry, specializing in power delivery operations, and has held various roles and responsibilities across all the Southern Company electric utilities and Southern Company Services.

She served as the chair of the Southern Company Power Delivery System Performance Steering Committee, advancing system- wide efforts around reliability, winterization, material supply, condition-based maintenance and inspection modernization utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

She holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a power systems specialization and an MBA in finance from the University of Alabama – Birmingham.