EnergyBiz - September/October 2007 - (Page 37) LEADERS MUST EDUCATE, EMBRACE FLEXIBILITY BY MARTIN ROSENBERG // PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHIL MUMFORD T hey are being called upon to develop a new fleet of nuclear plants — the first such projects in decades. They are being asked to speedily deploy technologies that can address the most complex environmental challenges mankind has ever faced. They are tasked with the job of explaining some difficult choices to political leaders preoccupied with a far-off war, health care concerns and the slow boil of an ongoing terrorist threat. Utility executives now face arguably the hardest checklist of tasks of anyone in corporate America. That was the background of the second annual EnergyBiz Executive Summit. We talked with nine captains of enterprises that collectively account for almost one-quarter of the Ceo partiCipantS KEvin BurKE, Consolidated Edison Bill HarvEy, Alliant Energy ricHarD KElly, Xcel Energy WilliaM MoorE, Westar Energy gary rainWatEr, Ameren DaviD ratcliffE, Southern Company JaMEs rogErs, Duke Energy JEff stErBa, PNM Resources DEnnis WraasE, Pepco Holdings www.energycentral.com E n E rgyB i z 37 http://www.energycentral.com
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