Electric Avenue

To be a player for the long term. That's the overriding goal for Glenn Steiger, general manager of the Mass. Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC) based in Ludlow.

Steiger joined the company in February 2006, after serving as manager of the Energy Department in the Imperial Irrigation District in Southern California. That was a job that allowed him to see and participate in some of the most cuttingedge developments in the energy industry today, but Steiger said the pace is no less brisk in New England, where the region's energy management practices are becoming a model for the rest of the nation. And, like most locates, climate change and the effect energy use may have on …