Rowe considers himself the "senior chief executive in the utility industry" having served in those positions since 1984.
Mr. MICHAEL SHAMES (Executive Director, Utility Consumers' Action Network): Filling up used to be painful, like going to a dentist.
For his part, Rogers has been a utility executive for two decades, leading several other mergers, including the one that brought him to Duke in 2006.
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An executive from another utility, Ameren Illinois, agreed with McMahan Monday at a panel on electric vehicles at the Great Lakes Symposium on Smart Grid at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Countries such as Japan and Korea are willing to pay 30% to 40% more than the U.S., so lng producers in Spain and India, for instance, are diverting shipments away from the U.S. David Ratcliffe, chief executive of the southeastern utility Southern Co.
WiLife offers free 24x7 technical support by phone, but it took some executive intervention to troubleshoot the MAC issue and send me a utility that quickly reset it.
"The DOE loan program provides an important financing 'bridge' at a time when the U.S. private debt markets have little to no experience financing first of their kind utility-scale solar projects, " First Solar Chief Executive Rob Gillette said in an email.
"I talked to the CEO of just about every electric utility in the U.S." recalls Anderson, now chief executive of Melbourne, Australia-based BHP Billiton Group.
If natural gas is to win by default and utilities are to get rid of all their coal and nuclear, future utility chiefs will have some sleepless nights, adds Tom Farrell, chief executive of Dominion Resources.
"We have visited 15 utility companies and been able to penetrate all of them, " says Brian Ahern, chief executive of Verano, a provider of cyberdefense systems for utilities.
Founded by a former Internet marketing executive named Bob Cart, GreenVolts had won a startup contest and managed to secure a deal with a small utility in Spokane, Wash.
At the same time Priory was looking for a partner in the gas business, Paul Anderson , chief executive of Panenergy, a big Houston gas pipeline company once known as Panhandle Eastern, was looking for a utility.
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