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1/22/2013, 11:11 AM
Secretary of Energy
Steven Chu
Aides will not discuss Chu's future but it is believed that he will leave his post early in Obama's second term. Chu's career has been dotted by highs like winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 and lows like the $527 million Department of Energy loan to Solyndra, the solar panel maker that went bankrupt in August 2011, taking more than half a billion dollars of taxpayer money with it.
Contender: Jim Rogers
Rogers was co-chairman of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the hometown of Duke Energy, for which he serves as CEO. Rogers will retire next year under an unusual agreement with state regulators examining the executive changes from Duke's merger with a rival company.
Contender: Cathy Zoi
No stranger to Washington politics, Zoi served as the chief of staff in the White House Office on Environmental Policy in the Clinton administration and as acting undersecretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the Department of Energy. Zoi was the founding CEO for former Vice President Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. She currently works on an investment team as a partner in the Silicon Valley company Silver Lake, an investment firm that focuses on energy efficient technologies and businesses.
Contender: Kathleen McGinty
McGinty served as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the Clinton White House, as secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and as chair of the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority. She also founded Peregrine Technology Partners LLC, a company that specializes in the production and marketing of clean energy technology. She was considered as a possible Environmental Protection Agency chief after Obama was first elected in 2008 and before Lisa Jackson took the post.
Contender: Louis Hay III
Hay, the executive chairman of NextEra Energy Inc., an energy company focused on renewable energy, was recently elected chairman of the Edison Electric Institute. Since Hay was just appointed to EEI in June 2012 and then assumed his role as chairman of NextEra the following month, that could be reason enough for him to forego the Energy job if offered.
If Chu departs what wacko might Obama go with for the next DOE secretary....pretty sure it won't be a guy from fossil fuels.
Steven Chu
Aides will not discuss Chu's future but it is believed that he will leave his post early in Obama's second term. Chu's career has been dotted by highs like winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 and lows like the $527 million Department of Energy loan to Solyndra, the solar panel maker that went bankrupt in August 2011, taking more than half a billion dollars of taxpayer money with it.
Contender: Jim Rogers
Rogers was co-chairman of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the hometown of Duke Energy, for which he serves as CEO. Rogers will retire next year under an unusual agreement with state regulators examining the executive changes from Duke's merger with a rival company.
Contender: Cathy Zoi
No stranger to Washington politics, Zoi served as the chief of staff in the White House Office on Environmental Policy in the Clinton administration and as acting undersecretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the Department of Energy. Zoi was the founding CEO for former Vice President Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. She currently works on an investment team as a partner in the Silicon Valley company Silver Lake, an investment firm that focuses on energy efficient technologies and businesses.
Contender: Kathleen McGinty
McGinty served as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the Clinton White House, as secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and as chair of the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority. She also founded Peregrine Technology Partners LLC, a company that specializes in the production and marketing of clean energy technology. She was considered as a possible Environmental Protection Agency chief after Obama was first elected in 2008 and before Lisa Jackson took the post.
Contender: Louis Hay III
Hay, the executive chairman of NextEra Energy Inc., an energy company focused on renewable energy, was recently elected chairman of the Edison Electric Institute. Since Hay was just appointed to EEI in June 2012 and then assumed his role as chairman of NextEra the following month, that could be reason enough for him to forego the Energy job if offered.
If Chu departs what wacko might Obama go with for the next DOE secretary....pretty sure it won't be a guy from fossil fuels.