Industry Segment: Power | Word Count: 1109 Words

SUGAR LAND--December 16, 2013--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Jim Rogers, chairman of Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE:DUK) (Charlotte, North Carolina), will be retiring from Duke at the end of 2013. Readers of Power Engineering magazine recently voted him the most influential executive in the electric power business. In accepting the award at a keynote speech at the recent Power-Gen International (PGI) conference, Rogers shared some thoughts about the future of the power industry, drawing on his 25 years as chief executive at utilities PSI Energy (Plainfield, Indiana), Cinergy (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Duke.