Energy 2024: ROBERT ‘BOB’ M. BLUE

Blue oversees Fortune 500 utility Dominion, which has 14,400 employees and serves roughly 4 million customers in 13 states. Before joining Dominion in 2004, Blue was an attorney and served as counselor and director of policy under Gov. Mark Warner.

In May, Dominion began installing foundation posts for its $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind farm off Virginia Beach. In July, the utility announced plans for CVOW-South in North Carolina, with Dominion set to buy the Kitty Hawk North Wind offshore wind lease from Avangrid for $160 million. Also that month, Dominion issued an RFP to potentially develop a small modular reactor at its North Anna nuclear power plant. And in June, Dominion closed its $4.3 billion sale of subsidiaries Questar Gas and Wexpro to Enbridge.

A University of Virginia alumnus, Blue has a law degree from Yale University, where he was editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review. He chairs the Nuclear Energy Institute board, is vice board chairman for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and sits on U.Va.’s board of visitors and the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the Greater Washington Partnership.