Meet the people featured in POWER TRIP.

Dennis Bakke, the co-founder and CEO of the AES Corporation, defines the purpose of AES as serving the world with safe, clean, reliable electricity and describes the company’s core values as “integrity, fairness, social responsibility and fun.”

Leeka Basilaia is an investigative journalist for Rustavi-2 Television and works as a broadcast and print journalist on political stories in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Alison Ekberg is an election observer for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and acts as an election official in the Euro-Asian region.

Akaki Gogichaishvili is an anchor for Georgia’s 60 Minutes and an investigative broadcast journalist in Tbilisi.

Ignacio Iribarren is the general director of AES-Telasi.

Alan Joel is the project manager for Black & Veetch, a firm contracted by AES-Telasi to install meters and support equipment in the Tbilisi region.

Iralki Kandelaki is the transition manager for AES-Telasi and is in charge of customer relations and debt collection for residential customers.

Nino Khonelidze, logistics assistant for AES-Telasi, works as a customer service liaison for Tbilisi residential customers.

Zaal Kikodze is a farmer and professor of archaeology at Tbilisi State University who provides social commentary and political insight into Georgia's history and current events.

Piers Lewis, the strategic projects director for AES-Telasi, is quickly promoted to manager for AES’s east region. In his new role, he transitions Tbilisi out of its vicious cycle of "no payment-no electricity supply" by implementing a transparent accounting/billing system, remetering, disconnections for non-payment and improved electricity supply.

Butch Mederos is a regional manager at AES-Telasi, working in the re-metered districts to transition residential customers into paying customers and to educate customers not to destroy AES equipment.

David Mirtskhulava is Georgia’s fuel and energy minister and controls the country’s energy sector and power supply.

Nugzar Opliashvili is Georgia’s deputy energy minister and assists David Mirtskhulava in the control of the country’s energy sector and power supply.

Bill O'Reilly, general director, AES-Mtkvari, manages the gas-operated Mtkvari Power Plant which supplies the Georgia grid with its power.

Alexander Rondeli, director, Foreign Policy Center, Ministry of Georgia, provides commentary and insight into the current political situation in Georgia.

Giorgi Sanaya is an investigative broadcast journalist for Rustavi-2 News, reporting on political stories in Georgia. He was assassinated in July 2001.

Michael Scholey, general director, AES-Telasi, launched AES investment in Georgia to transition the post-Soviet state to a capitalist way of doing business in the energy sector. Scholey was promoted to group manager based in Istanbul, Turkey, overseeing AES business in many countries.

Datto Tabidze, commercial billing manager, AES-Telasi, manages accounts and debt collection of commercial customers in Georgia.