Douglas F Esamann
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Advisor to the CEO
(retiring Aug. 1, 2021)
Pending his retirement in August 2021, Doug Esamann will continue at Duke Energy as advisor to the CEO. Previously, he served as executive vice president, energy solutions and president, Midwest/Florida regions and natural gas business. He had responsibility for corporate strategy and planning, emerging technology and Duke Energy's regulated and commercial renewable energy operations. Additionally, he was responsible for sales and services to commercial, industrial and wholesale customers; the development and marketing of products and solutions for all customer segments; and the company's economic development efforts.
As president of the Midwest and Florida regions, he had responsibility for the strategic direction and performance of the company's regulated electric utilities in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Florida. Esamann also served as president of Duke Energy's natural gas business, where he oversaw the company's natural gas operations in the Carolinas, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Before his appointment as executive vice president, Esamann served as president of Duke Energy Indiana, the state's largest electric utility, serving approximately 810,000 customers in 69 of the state's 92 counties. He was responsible for the company's regulatory, governmental relations, economic development and community affairs work in Indiana. He served in that role from November 2010 until June 2015. Esamann has also served as senior vice president of corporate strategy for Duke Energy, where he led the company's strategy development and business planning efforts, including load forecasting and market fundamentals.
Following the merger between Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006, Esamann served as group vice president of strategy and planning for Duke Energy's regulated utilities, with responsibility for integrated resource planning, environmental compliance planning, transactional support, customer market analytics, load research and renewable energy compliance.
With Cinergy, he served as senior vice president of energy portfolio strategy and management for Cinergy's commercial business unit, with responsibility for fuel management, environmental risk management, generation dispatch, power purchases and sales, portfolio analytics, load forecasting, generation asset planning, demand-side management planning and environmental compliance planning.
Esamann began his employment with Public Service Indiana (predecessor of PSI Energy) in 1979. In the course of his PSI/Cinergy career, he held a variety of leadership roles, including vice president and chief financial officer of the commercial business unit from 1999 until 2001, and president of PSI Energy from 2001 until 2004.
Esamann has been active on a number of community and industry boards. He currently serves as chairman of the board for Energy Systems Network, a nonprofit industry initiative focused on clean technology development. He is first vice chair of the board of directors for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He also serves on the board of trustees for Discovery Place, a hands-on science and technology museum for visitors of all ages based in Charlotte, N.C.
A native of Plainfield, Ind., Esamann earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Indiana University. He and his wife, Kimberly, have two daughters, a son and six grandchildren.