Calpine Corporation has named Charlie Gates as Executive Vice President of Power Operations effective April 1, 2016.

Gates previously served as Duke Energy Corporation’s Senior Vice President and Chief Fossil/Hydro Officer. He will report to Calpine’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Thad Hill.

Gates will succeed Tom Webb, who came out of retirement to lead Calpine’s Power Operations team on an interim bases since August 2015 and previously had led the team in 2009-2010.

At Duke, Gates was responsible for all regulated non-nuclear generation assets, including significant budgets and approximately 42,000 MWs of generation capacity. He was promoted to his most recent role in August 2014 after serving as SVP of Power Generation Operations since July 2012, when Progress Energy merged with Duke. He had served in a similar capacity for Progress since January 2012 after being promoted from Vice President of Fossil Generation for Progress Energy for the Carolinas and Florida. He was previously General Manager of Progress Energy Florida from the time the company merged with Carolina Power & Light Company in 2001 to 2006.

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