Sierra Pacific Resources
Walt Higgins is the retired CEO of Sierra Pacific Resources.
In honoring Kuhn with Public Utilities Fortnightly's highest award, named for the extraordinary industry leader of a hundred years ago — Owen Young — we salute the man behind the transformational "Power by Association." We do this not alone. What follows are the voices of a dozen of the industry's top leaders of the twenty-first century, about Kuhn's accomplishments, and the man himself. Including four utility Executive Chairs, three utility CEOs, four retired utility CEOs, and Kuhn's longtime key associate at EEI, David Owens.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: Talk about when in your career you began working with Tom Kuhn and his team at EEI.
Walt Higgins: Tom and I first met sometime in the eighties when he was number two at EEI.
I was a Senior Vice President at Portland General Electric. I had a portfolio that included all of the generation and transmission, which could be managed together at that time.
That included a nuclear plant. I started attending a variety of industry nuclear activities, some transmission activities, and started to interact with Tom and the staff. Not a lot, a little bit.