Over the past seven days, barely news cycle went by without something happening with Duke Energy in North Carolina or Con Ed in New York. Duke Chief Executive Jim Rogers addressed both state regulators and Progress Energy employees to explain why Progress CEO Bill Johnson was removed after the Duke-Progress merger went through.
In other news, readers showed some interest in our new front-page Dashboard concept at Utility Dive, which we broke down for you in a post from our own CEO.
If you need to catch up on what's been going on, have a look at these five links to the news posts that interested our readers the most:
- Con Ed asks court to stop protests by locked-out workers—The utility wants a state Supreme Court judge to order union picketers to stop interfering.
- Rogers says Duke Energy's board worried about Johnson—Duke CEO tells North Carolina regulators that the board questioned Johnson's leadership abilities at Progress Energy.
- Duke's Rogers to testify as merger fallout riles regulators—North Carolina regulators and the state attorney general are taking a hard look at the Duke Energy-Progress Energy merger.
- Duke CEO talks to Progress employees about leadership change—Jim Rogers addressed thousands of employees about the post-merger departure of Progress CEO Bill Johnson.
- Welcome to the new Utility Dive!—CEO Sean Griffey's message welcoming you to the new Utility Dive Dashboard.
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