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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NRC nominee Nieh commits to independent safety mission
During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
Diane Leopold is executive vice president and chief operating officer for Dominion Energy. She is the senior executive responsible for all the company’s operating segments and related construction functions.
Leopold oversees: Dominion Energy Virginia, a vertically integrated electric utility with generation, transmission and distribution assets providing electric service to about 2.7 million customer accounts in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina; Dominion Energy South Carolina, a natural gas and electric utility serving 1.1 million customer accounts; and Contracted Energy, consisting of Millstone Power Station, dozens of solar generating facilities with long-term power purchase agreements in nine states, and a renewable natural gas business.
Leopold joined Dominion Energy in 1995 and became an officer in 2004. She held a wide range of executive roles in operational, financial, and commercial areas throughout the company. She became Dominion Energy’s executive vice president and co-chief operating officer in December 2019 and assumed her current role in October 2020.
In addition to being on the board of directors of Markel Corporation, she currently serves on various industry, non-profit and community boards. She is on the boards of the Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited, GROW Capital Jobs Foundation, the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation and World Pediatric Project. Leopold serves on the executive committee, board and is past-chair of the American Gas Association and is past-chair of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
Leopold graduated from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and electrical engineering. She received a master’s degree in electrical engineering (energy conversion, power, and transmission) in 1993 from George Washington University and an MBA in 1998 from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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