Dick has over thirty-five years of experience in the electric power industry and twenty years of experience in the competitive power industry.  Dick was most recently based in Hampton, N.H. as vice president of business development for Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., responsible for developing and acquiring new projects and restructuring existing projects.  A wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc. of Houston, Texas, Wheelabrator Technologies in Hampton, N.H., owns and/or operates seventeen waste-to-energy facilities and six independent power production facilities. 

Prior to Wheelabrator, Dick was the president of Westmoreland Coal Company’s independent power development company, based in Colorado Springs and vice president of business development of CogenAmerica, a publicly-traded independent power producer based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.  Prior to obtaining his competitive power experience, Dick had an eighteen-year career with Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation in Boston.  He has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of New Hampshire and is a member of the Chemical Engineering Department’s Advisory Board.

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