SAN DIEGO, June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra Energy
(NYSE: SRE) today announced key executive appointments at its
California utility infrastructure
companies as part of its ongoing commitment to leadership
development and succession planning.
Kevin C. Sagara has been named
group president of Sempra Energy, overseeing the company's
California utilities, San Diego
Gas & Electric Co. (SDG&E) and Southern California Gas Co.
(SoCalGas). Caroline A. Winn, chief
operating officer of SDG&E, has been named CEO of SDG&E.
Scott D. Drury, president of
SDG&E, has been named CEO of SoCalGas.
"At Sempra Energy, we re-focused our strategy in 2018 on
building North America's premier
energy infrastructure company. Central to that mission is a
commitment to also lead our industry in safety and sustainable
business practices," said Jeffrey W.
Martin, chairman and CEO of Sempra Energy. "Our company's
long-standing focus on developing leaders of character includes
recognizing and promoting leaders who are committed to furthering
our safety culture and leading the energy transition through
innovation and technology."
Sagara currently serves as chairman and CEO of SDG&E and is
credited with raising the company's standing as a national leader
in wildfire safety and clean energy. Previously, he served as
president of Sempra Renewables, leading that business to become one
of the largest renewable energy companies in the U.S. Sagara's
leadership at the national level includes his service as a director
of the Edison Electric Institute.
Winn has served as chief operating officer at SDG&E since
2017 and is responsible for SDGE's industry leadership in
sustainability, technology and innovation, including the
company's significant advances in safety and wildfire mitigation.
She previously served as SDG&E's chief energy delivery officer,
vice president of customer services and has held other operational
leadership positions. She first joined the company in 1986 as an
associate engineer. Winn also serves as the chair of the San Diego
Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Under Drury's leadership as president of SDG&E since 2017,
the utility strengthened the safety and reliability of the energy
grid and provided customers with increasingly cleaner energy
choices while maintaining affordability and expanding electric
vehicle charging infrastructure in the region. Previously, he
served as SDG&E's chief energy supply officer and vice
president of human resources, diversity and inclusion. He has been
with the Sempra Energy family of companies since 1986.
Bret Lane, currently CEO of
SoCalGas, is retiring after 38 years of distinguished service for
the company.
The CEO appointments are effective Aug.
1, 2020. Sagara's appointment as group president of Sempra
Energy is effective June 27,
2020.
About Sempra Energy
Sempra Energy's mission is to be North
America's premier energy infrastructure company. With more
than $60 billion in total assets in 2019, the San
Diego-based company is the utility holding company with the largest
U.S. customer base. The Sempra Energy companies' more than 18,000
employees deliver energy with purpose to over 35 million consumers
worldwide. The company is focused on the most attractive markets
in North America,
including California, Texas, Mexico and the LNG
export market. Sempra Energy has been consistently recognized for
its leadership in sustainability, and diversity and inclusion, and
is a member of the S&P 500 Utilities Index and the Dow Jones
Utility Index. The company was also named one of the "World's Most
Admired Companies" for 2020 by Fortune Magazine.
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regulations, issuances of permits and other authorizations, renewal
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consent of partners, (iii) counterparties' financial or other
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ability to realize anticipated benefits from any of these efforts
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obtain regulatory approvals, (ii) supply chain and current and
prospective counterparties, contractors, customers, employees and
partners, (iii) liquidity, resulting from bill payment challenges
experienced by our customers, decreased stability and accessibility
of the capital markets and other factors, and (iv) ability to
sustain operations and satisfy compliance requirements due to
social distancing measures or if employee absenteeism were to
increase significantly; the resolution of civil and criminal
litigation, regulatory investigations and proceedings, and
arbitrations; actions by credit rating agencies to downgrade our
credit ratings or to place those ratings on negative outlook and
our ability to borrow at favorable interest rates; moves to reduce
or eliminate reliance on natural gas and the impact of the extreme
volatility and unprecedented decline of oil prices on our
businesses and development projects; weather, natural disasters,
accidents, equipment failures, computer system outages and other
events that disrupt our operations, damage our facilities and
systems, cause the release of harmful materials, cause fires and
subject us to liability for property damage or personal injuries,
fines and penalties, some of which may not be covered by insurance
(including costs in excess of applicable policy limits), may be
disputed by insurers or may otherwise not be recoverable through
regulatory mechanisms or may impact our ability to obtain
satisfactory levels of affordable insurance; the availability of
electric power and natural gas and natural gas storage capacity,
including disruptions caused by failures in the transmission grid,
limitations on the withdrawal or injection of natural gas from or
into storage facilities, and equipment failures; cybersecurity
threats to the energy grid, storage and pipeline infrastructure,
the information and systems used to operate our businesses, and the
confidentiality of our proprietary information and the personal
information of our customers and employees; expropriation of
assets, the failure of foreign governments and state-owned entities
to honor the terms of contracts, and property disputes; the impact
at San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) on competitive
customer rates and reliability due to the growth in distributed
power generation and from departing retail load resulting from
customers transferring to Direct Access, Community Choice
Aggregation or other forms of distributed power generation and the
risk of nonrecovery for stranded assets and contractual
obligations; Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC's (Oncor) ability
to eliminate or reduce its quarterly dividends due to regulatory
and governance requirements and commitments, including by actions
of Oncor's independent directors or a minority member director;
volatility in foreign currency exchange, interest and inflation
rates and commodity prices and our ability to effectively hedge the
risk of such volatility; changes in trade policies, laws and
regulations, including tariffs and revisions to or replacement of
international trade agreements, such as the North American Free
Trade Agreement, that may increase our costs or impair our ability
to resolve trade disputes; the impact of changes to federal and
state tax laws and our ability to mitigate adverse impacts; and
other uncertainties, some of which may be difficult to predict and
are beyond our control.
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Exchange Commission (SEC). These reports are available through the
EDGAR system free-of-charge on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov, and
on the company's website, www.sempra.com. Investors should not rely
unduly on any forward-looking statements.
Sempra South American Utilities, Sempra North American
Infrastructure, Sempra LNG, Sempra Mexico, Sempra Texas Utilities,
Oncor and Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova)
are not the same companies as the California utilities, SDG&E or Southern
California Gas Company, and Sempra South American Utilities, Sempra
North American Infrastructure, Sempra LNG, Sempra Mexico, Sempra
Texas Utilities, Oncor and IEnova are not regulated by the
California Public Utilities Commission.
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