WASHINGTON, D.C.— The Nuclear Energy Institute announces Jeff Lyash, president and CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, as incoming vice chairman of its board of directors. Ralph Izzo, chairman, president and CEO of Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), will serve his second term as its chairman of the board.
Izzo was re-elected after serving one year as chairman of NEI’s board of directors. Lyash will replace outgoing NEI board vice chairman Paul D. Koonce, who retired Feb. 1 as executive vice president and president and CEO of Dominion Energy’s Power Generation Group.
As the current president and chief executive officer of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Lyash leads the nation’s largest public utility. Before TVA, Lyash served as president and CEO of Ontario Power Generation Inc., one of the largest electric generating companies in Canada with a diverse fleet of nuclear, hydroelectric, gas, biomass and renewable generating stations.
Lyash has also served at the executive leadership level at some of the most prominent energy companies and regulatory commissions, including the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Duke Energy, Progress Energy and CB&I Energy.
“I am thrilled to have Jeff join NEI’s board of directors,” said Maria Korsnick, president and CEO of NEI. “I am confident Jeff’s decades of experience will provide invaluable insight into the utility and nuclear industries, and positions NEI to be a leading voice for carbon-free energy.”
The elections took place on March 19, 2020, during the organization’s executive committee meeting. The NEI executive committee sets broad policy for the nuclear energy industry, which operates 96 nuclear reactors in 29 states that supply 55 percent of America’s carbon-free electricity.
The NEI board of directors is comprised of executives from companies that hold licenses to operate nuclear energy facilities and selected representatives of other companies involved in commercial nuclear technologies.
