LEE L. KELLOUGH III, P.E. - Founder & CEO
Lee Kellough is considered a subject matter expert with all of the state regulatory agencies in generation and transmission development and real-time operations. He is experienced in working directly with the Department of Justice and FERC officials and has developed and negotiated commercial contracts with large industrial customers and wholesale customers. Lee has excellent communication skills and experience as a liaison across the electric utility industry.
KEY SUCCESS STORIES
Responsible for leading the development and execution of DIVERSENERGY’S long term strategy with a view to creating shareholder value. As CEO, the leadership role also entails being ultimately responsible for all day-to-day management decisions and for implementing the development of the LNG facilities, ensuring reliability of the facilities, safety of employees, and creating a reputable customer interface. Successfully led the negotiations for Stabilis Energy, Inc. to acquire DIVERSENERGY and its subsidiaries which created one of the leading distributed LNG marketing and distributon companies in Mexico.
Developed and managed a matrix organization across various business units within Entergy that received Entergy board approval for a $37.9 million investment by Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C. (EGSL) for the construction of an16-mile long transmission line from the Willow Glen 230 kV switchyard to the Conway 230 kV switchyard. The project enabled EGSL to serve 125 MW increase in the electrical load of an existing customer, Westlake Vinyls, in the “Amite South” portion of EGSL’s service territory.
Led the team that developed and successfully negotiated a five and one-half-year capacity sale and fuel conversion services agreement (referred to as the “San Jacinto Tolling Agreement”) between Entergy Services, Inc. and East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. to purchase the capacity from a 150 MW generation facility developed by ETEC in San Jacinto County, Texas in the Western Region of WOTAB. This contract not only provided 150 MW of reliable peaking generation capacity in the Western Region to serve ETI customers, but also deferred capital investment in generation until 2014. The contract is valued at $40 million.
Developed a five-phase economic study process (the “ESI Economic Study Process”) to evaluate transmission projects identified by the System Planning and Operations organization and/or issued by the Independent Coordinator of Transmission (“ICT”) as part of its annual ICT Strategic Transmission Expansion Plan (“ISTEP”). Under ESI Economic Study process, I was the primary liaison between ESI and the ICT as well as other interested regulators to determine how to proceed on economic transmission projects to reduce overall generation production cost to Entergy rate payers
Designed the interconnection facilities for the recent Ninemile 6-550 MW combined cycle generation facility in Westwego, LA. Led a team that successfully led a reduced the long-term transmission deliverability cost by over $200M and ultimately received Entergy board approval $735M. This unit leverages modern technology to help meet regional power supply needs in southeast Louisiana, enhances service reliability in the area and provides significant economic benefits to Jefferson Parish and the surrounding communities