Source: CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 12/18/18

Former Duke Energy chairman and CEO Jim Rogers, who led the Charlotte-based company through mergers that made it the nation’s biggest electric utility at one time, has died. He was 71. Rogers died Monday in Louisville, Ky., Duke Energy said Tuesday. Rogers retired from Duke in 2013, a year after a turbulent, $32 billion merger with Raleigh-based Progress Energy that extended the company’s service territory across most of North Carolina and into five other states. Duke has 7.6 million customers.

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