July Top Ten Players In Green Energy
1: BP Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley
Bob Dudley did not, as far as we know, doodle a rough sketch one night of the containment device that finally capped BP’s gushing Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. He did not cause bacteria to eat much of the estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil that issued forth from the well, which blew out on April 20. He did not even force former BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward to resign. But he has benefited from all of those events and the new CEO has some good will stored up as he now looks to turn BP around. One area he might start: green energy. Dudley was formerly group vice president for BP’s Renewables and Alternative Energy activities and was responsible for global solar, wind and hydrogen. He could use that experience to redouble BP’s efforts in green energy – a savvy move given the company’s role at the center of one of America’s greatest ecological disasters. That would be something that Dudley could justifiably claim credit for.
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