2010 POWERFUL HISPANICS IN ENERGY stu JORGE J. LOPEZ
President and CEO ConEdison Solutions
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stu DAVID VELAZQUEZ Executive Vice President Pepco Holdings, Inc.
Supplying Power to the Mid-Atlantic Green Power
ConEdison Solutions, the energy sub- sidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc., is dedicated to finding inventive ways “to navigate the new competitive energy landscape.” Jorge J. Lopez, who has been the group’s president and chief executive officer since 2006, is at the helm in this journey. The company has customers in Maryland, Washington, D.C., New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Texas, and busi- nesses throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic that purchase its services. Lopez has been in the energy services field for more than 20 years. At Chev- ron Energy Solutions, he was director of sales, power quality/reliability and distributed generation. Before that he was a manager for PSE&G. In 2002, Lopez joined ConEdison Solutions. As senior vice president of Retail Commod- ity and Energy Services, he developed and led those divisions, and prior to that served as vice president of sales. One example of Lopez’s innovation is how ConEdison Solutions buys renew- able energy credits generated by wind farms and uses them to offset traditional purchases. For example, he says that ConEdison can show that the energy us- age of New York City’s large West Side sports complex, Chelsea Piers, will be offset by an equal amount of pollution- free renewable wind energy that will be added to the energy grid. Last year, Lopez told Marketwire that, “Connecti- cut households and businesses are now able to reduce their carbon footprint and reduce their electricity bills at the same time.” Lopez holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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David Velazquez is an executive vice presi- dent of PHI, or Pepco Holdings, Inc. The regulated utility serves about 1.9 million residential and commercial electricity and natural gas customers in Delaware, the Dis- trict of Columbia, Maryland and New Jersey. Its subsidiary, Pepco, serves 778,000 custom- ers in Washington, D.C. and its Maryland suburbs. PHI’s Delmarva Power and Atlantic City Electric subsidiaries manage regulated electricity service, while Delmarva also provides natural gas to cumulatively more than one million customers. Another subsidiary, Pepco Energy Service, provides competitive retail energy products and services. Velazquez oversees PHI’s power delivery business. That means he man- ages the transmission, distribution and supply of energy by the three PHI regulated subsidiaries. In 1981, Velazquez joined Delmarva Power and rose through engineer- ing, operations, and planning posts. Before his current post, he was president and chief executive officer of Conectiv Energy, PHI’s former competitive merchant energy subsidiary. He has also been a PHI vice president of strategic planning and chief risk officer, as well as a vice president of business planning for Conectiv Energy. He has a Bachelor of Science in engineering at Widener University. Velazquez is a member of the board of directors of the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education, and the Southeastern Electric Exchange. It is a nonprofit, non-political trade association of investor-owned electric utility companies.
stu EDWARD A. SALAS
Senior Vice President Engineering and Operations PG&E
Keep the Power Flowing
For more than 150 years, one iteration or another of what became PG&E Corporation, also known as Pacific Gas & Electric, has provided power and light to millions. Edward A. Salas became senior vice president, engineer- ing and operations, in 2007. He oversees gas and electric plan- ning, engineering and operations, and transmission and distribution asset management. Salas has spearheaded changes that have improved the way the utility
manages its energy delivery system. One of his first actions at PG&E was to create an integrated gas-engineering group dedicated to improving the integrity of the gas transmission and distribution system. Before assuming his current position, Salas was vice president of network strategy and planning for Verizon Wireless. Prior to that, he served as vice president of network engineering and planning for Vodafone AirTouch. He was also vice president of German operations and chief technical offi- cer of Mannesmann Mobilfunk when it was purchased by Vodafone. He has a bach- elor’s degree from California State University at Los Angeles. Pacific Gas & Electric, a Fortune 200 energy-based holding company, has more than 15 million customers in its northern and central California 70,000 square-mile service area.
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