Katherine Prewitt
Katherine Prewitt is the president of Transmission for Eversource Energy. In this position, Katherine is responsible for leading the company’s Transmission Operations business in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. She has overall leadership and management responsibility to oversee Eversource’s transmission policy, strategy, major projects (including regulatory approvals) and compliance.
Prior to joining Eversource Energy, Katherine was the vice president of Southern Company Services Transmission. In this position, she was responsible for transmission engineering services and planning in support of Southern Company’s operating companies and the southeastern bulk electric system.
Previously, Katherine was the senior director of Regional Operations at Midcontinent Independent System Operations (MISO) where she led real-time operations for MISO South region and was instrumental in prioritizing diversity and inclusion through the development of MISO’s Women’s Resource Group.
Katherine also spent eight years at Southwest Power Pool, beginning as a system operator and progressing to management roles in which she ultimately served as director of planning, managing multibillion-dollar expansion projects and transmission upgrades across multiple states. She began her energy career at Entergy Corporation, where she worked in various engineering and operational roles supporting transmission grid integrity, control room operations and expansion projects, among other responsibilities.
Katherine is an active participant in several organizations that influence industry policy such as North American Electric Reliability, Systems Engineering Research Center, and Edison Electric Institute.
She has served on the board of ambassadors for the Arkansas School for Math, Science and the Arts, the board of directors for the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, the board for the Arkansas Stem Coalition and as a mentor through its Girls of Promise program. She has also served as an industry advisor for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Engineering and Information Technology as well as the Arkansas Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Coalition.
Katherine holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas.
