Madison Gas and Electric and MGE Energy, Inc. Announce Management Changes
October 19, 2016 at 05:07 pm
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Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) and MGE Energy Inc. announced that effective March 1, 2017, Gary Wolter will retire as President and CEO of MGE Energy and its subsidiary, Madison Gas and Electric Co. Jeffrey Keebler will assume the roles of President and CEO at that time. Wolter will continue as Chairman of the Board of both companies. Keebler also was appointed to the Boards of Directors of both companies effective March 1, 2017. Wolter took over as President and CEO of both MGE and MGE Energy in February 2000 and took over as Chair in February 2002. Keebler has held various leadership positions at MGE in Energy Supply, Rates, Generation
Planning, Information Technology, Customer Service and Human Resources. He is currently MGE's Senior Vice President - Energy Supply and Planning. Jeffrey Newman, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer, will take on an expanded role. Gregory Bollom, Assistant Vice President - Energy Planning, and John Jicha, Director - Energy Supply and Trading, will report to Newman. Craig Fenrick, Senior Vice President - Energy Operations, also will take on additional responsibilities. Joseph DePoorter, Director - NERC Compliance and Generation Operations, will report to Fenrick.
MGE Energy, Inc. is a public utility holding company. The Company's segments include Regulated electric utility operations; Regulated gas utility operations; Nonregulated energy operations, and Transmission investments. The Regulated electric utility operations segment is engaged in generating, purchasing, and distributing electricity through Madison Gas and Electric Company (MGE). The Regulated gas utility operations segment is engaged in purchasing and distributing natural gas through MGE. The Nonregulated energy operations segment owns and leases electric generating capacity that assists MGE through MGE Energy's wholly owned subsidiaries MGE Power Elm Road and MGE Power West Campus. The Transmission investments segment includes the investment in American Transmission Company LLC, which is engaged in the business of providing electric transmission services in Wisconsin, and ATC Holdco LLC, which facilitate out-of-state electric transmission development and investments.
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