Leadership
Gary Taylor, Group President, Utility Operations
In April 2007, Gary Taylor became group president of Entergy’s Utility
Operations. He is responsible for the regulated utility financial results,
along with operational results of electric and natural gas distribution and
customer service. In addition, Gary oversees utility regulatory support and
regulated retail activities.
Gary previously served as chief executive officer of Entergy’s nuclear
businesses. He joined Entergy Nuclear in March 2000 as chief operating officer
of its South region, based at its Jackson, Miss., headquarters. Taylor brought
20 years of nuclear expertise to Entergy, most of it with South Carolina
Electric & Gas Company’s V. C. Summer Station.
Entergy operates five nuclear units in its retail electric service area: two
units at Arkansas Nuclear One and single units at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station,
River Bend Station and Waterford 3. Entergy has acquired five nuclear units in
the Northeast: Pilgrim Nuclear Station, James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Station,
Vermont Yankee and two units at Indian Point Energy Center. Entergy Nuclear
provides management support services for the operation of Cooper Nuclear
Station and is also the nation’s largest provider of license renewal and
decommissioning services in the U.S. nuclear power industry.
In July 2006, under Taylor’s guidance, Entergy Nuclear announced an agreement
to purchase the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan from Consumers
Energy. That purchase, expected to become effective in the second quarter of
2007, will bring to 11 the number of nuclear units Entergy owns.
Prior to joining Entergy, Taylor had been vice president of nuclear operations
at South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, a subsidiary of SCANA Corporation,
since 1995, responsible for the overall direction of the nuclear strategic
business unit.
Taylor is currently a member of the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He
serves on the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute as well as
the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Nuclear Studies. Taylor is past
chair of the NEI’s Low Level Waste Management Working Group.
Taylor joined South Carolina Electric & Gas Company in 1981 as a reactor
engineer. He quickly began his rise through broad and varied assignments,
becoming a supervisor in just over a year and then managing the nuclear
computer services, shift engineering and operations departments before being
named general manager of plant operations in 1992. He certified as senior
reactor operator and shift technical advisor at Summer.
Taylor’s previous affiliations were in nuclear engineering roles with Long
Island Lighting Company at the Shoreham, N.Y. plant and with Babcock & Wilcox
Company at Millstone 2 in Conn., Three Mile Island Unit 2 in Pa., Davis Besse
in Ohio, Rancho Seco in Calif., Entergy's ANO unit 1 in Arkansas, and Oconee
in South Carolina.
His formal education includes a bachelor of science degree in physics from the
Virginia Military Institute and a master of science in nuclear science and
engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has
also completed Harvard University’s Advanced Management Program, and earlier,
the INPO Senior Nuclear Plant Management course. Taylor is a member of the
National Physics Honor Society. He was honorably discharged from the United
States Air Force with the rank of captain.
Updated 5/08
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