James Rogers After 20-plus years in the utility industry, James Rogers is emphatic that we must “build a bridge to a low carbon world.” He confesses to a missionary zeal around clean energy, and to the fact that he must reinvent his business, Duke Energy. Rogers invokes 3, 12 and 41 as the key numbers defining his challenge: Duke, with four million customers in five states, is the third largest emitter of CO2 among U.S. companies, the 12th largest corporate emitter in the world, and, 41st among nations if the firm were a country. Rogers conceives of the challenge in terms he calls “cathedral thinking.” Just as it took three generations to design and build Notre Dame, so will it take decades to resolve the carbon issue. “It took us 100 years to get here, and will take a while to get out of this…. We need a sense of urgency, but not a sense of panic…a sense of hope, not a sense of fear. “ He names “two aspirations for the company.” The first involves modernizing...