Full Name
Leslie Carter
Job Title
Strategic Advisor - Grid Resiliency
Company
Dominion Energy
Speaker Bio
Leslie M. “Les” Carter is Strategic Advisor Grid Resiliency, Power Delivery Group.
He has been with the Strategic Underground Program since its inception and is responsible for the regulatory, finance, data, and metrics aspects of the initiative.
Carter joined Dominion in 2001 as Senior Financial Analyst at Dominion Telecom and has held various financial, project management, and managerial positions. In 2003, he was promoted to Manager-Financial and Business Services for Dominion Energy’s Power Delivery Group responsible for operating and capital budgeting and reporting. Switching roles in 2006, Carter became Manager-Electric Distribution System Reliability, handling reliability initiatives and programs culminating in substantial service reliability improvements. After Dominion Energy experienced significant storm related outage events in both 2011 and 2012, Carter spent 2013 leading a team charged with the formulation of an initiative to convert the most outage-prone overhead lines to underground. In 2014 the Strategic Underground Program began when Carter assumed his current role.
A native of London in the U.K., Carter earned his B.S. degree in Construction Management from Brunel University, London in 1980. Carter also received a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters in Public Management, from the University of Maryland, College Park, both in 1991. Currently Carter is a PhD candidate at the VCU Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, researching collaborative energy policy initiatives.
He has been with the Strategic Underground Program since its inception and is responsible for the regulatory, finance, data, and metrics aspects of the initiative.
Carter joined Dominion in 2001 as Senior Financial Analyst at Dominion Telecom and has held various financial, project management, and managerial positions. In 2003, he was promoted to Manager-Financial and Business Services for Dominion Energy’s Power Delivery Group responsible for operating and capital budgeting and reporting. Switching roles in 2006, Carter became Manager-Electric Distribution System Reliability, handling reliability initiatives and programs culminating in substantial service reliability improvements. After Dominion Energy experienced significant storm related outage events in both 2011 and 2012, Carter spent 2013 leading a team charged with the formulation of an initiative to convert the most outage-prone overhead lines to underground. In 2014 the Strategic Underground Program began when Carter assumed his current role.
A native of London in the U.K., Carter earned his B.S. degree in Construction Management from Brunel University, London in 1980. Carter also received a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters in Public Management, from the University of Maryland, College Park, both in 1991. Currently Carter is a PhD candidate at the VCU Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, researching collaborative energy policy initiatives.
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