Dive Summary:
- Robert Gruber, currently the executive director of Public Staff of the North Carolina Utilities Commission, revealed that he will step down from the position on June 30, 2013, after previously announced his retirement for 2011.
- At the time, North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue, asked him to delay retirement in the wake of the Duke Energy merger with Progress Energy.
- The N.C. Utilities Commission is currently investigating whether or not Duke misled regulators about the merger before it closed on July 2.
From the article:
Robert Gruber, executive director of the Public Staff of the N.C. Utilities Commission, plans to retire June 30, having put off retirement in 2011 to work through Duke Energy Corporation’s $32 billion purchase of Progress Energy, Inc. ...
