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Scotty Hinnant is senior vice president - Nuclear Generation and chief nuclear officer. In that role, he oversees all aspects of the company's four nuclear generating plants, as well as nuclear engineering and services.
He joined Progress Energy (CP&L) in 1972 at the Brunswick Nuclear Plant near Southport, N.C., where he held several positions in the startup testing and operating organizations. He left Progress Energy in 1976 to work for Babcock and Wilcox in the Commercial Nuclear Power Division, returning to Progress Energy in 1977. Since that time, he has served in various management positions at three of Progress Energy's nuclear plant sites.
Hinnant has experience in nuclear power plant design, construction engineering, operation and management of both pressurized-water and boiling-water reactors. Before joining the company, Hinnant worked for Newport News Shipbuilding as an electrical design engineer.
Hinnant is an electrical engineering graduate of North Carolina State University, with post graduate credits in business administration earned from Christopher Newport College and the College of William and Mary. He also attended the Progress Energy Management Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Business and the Executive Business Management Program and the University of Michigan School of Business. | 