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Jim Turner is group executive; president and chief operating officer of U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas for Duke Energy. He is responsible for the company’s fossil-hydro generation operations, power delivery, gas distribution, customer service operations, wholesale business and new generation projects. Turner also has overall profit and loss responsibility for Duke Energy's Franchised Electric and Gas business. He was named to his current position in April 2007.
Most recently, Turner served as group executive and president of U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas, where he had oversight for the company's customer service, legislative and regulatory strategy, wholesale operations and economic development in the five states it serves.
Prior to the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy, Turner served as president of Cinergy. Before that, he was the company’s chief financial officer, where he was responsible for the company’s financial operations, investor relations, corporate development, and strategic planning. He also served as chief executive officer for Cinergy’s regulated business unit.
Before joining Cinergy in 1995, Turner was employed as a principal in the Indianapolis law firm of Lewis & Kappes, P.C., representing industrial customers in state utility commission proceedings as well as before the Indiana General Assembly. Before joining Lewis & Kappes, Turner served as the Indiana Utility Consumer Counselor from 1991 to 1993, leading a state agency responsible for representing all classes of Indiana consumers of electricity, natural gas, telephone, water and sewer services. In 1992, he served on the Executive Committee of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates. From 1984 to 1991, he was employed as an attorney in the Indianapolis law firm of Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman (now Bingham McHale), where he was elected to partnership in 1990.
Turner serves on the board of directors of the Electric Power Research Institute. Active in his community, he also serves on the boards of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Charlotte Center City Partners, and the Cincinnati Museum Center. From 1999-2004, he served as a member of the Ohio State Board of Education.
Turner received a bachelor of science degree from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., and a juris doctor degree, cum laude, from the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School and the Center for Creative Leadership’s Leadership at the Peak program in Colorado Springs, Colo.
He and his wife, Leah, have two daughters and a son.
Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers. The company has approximately 36,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Midwest and the Carolinas, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky. In addition, Duke Energy has more than 4,000 megawatts of electric generation in Latin America, and is a joint-venture partner in a U.S. real estate company. | 