Victor N. Lopiano is in charge of PPL’s hydroelectric and fossil-fueled generating plants in Pennsylvania and Montana. These are merchant generating plants with nearly 8,000 megawatts of generating capacity that operate in competitive electricity markets.

Lopiano also is responsible for engineering and construction activities for PPL’s merchant generating plants in Pennsylvania and Montana, including the $600 million expansion of hydroelectric plants in both states, and the $1.5 billion environmental upgrades at Pennsylvania coal-fired power plants completed in 2009.

As president of PPL’s Nuclear Development subsidiary, Lopiano is leading the effort to develop options for expanding the company’s nuclear operations. PPL has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to build and operate a new nuclear power plant in northeastern Pennsylvania. A decision on whether to build that plant remains several years in the future.

Before joining PPL in 2008, Lopiano spent 12 years with USEC Inc., a leading supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. His most recent position was vice president of American Centrifuge, where he was responsible for developing and deploying USEC’s advanced centrifuge enrichment technology.

While at USEC, Lopiano also served as the senior USEC manager in Livermore, Calif., responsible for the development of advanced laser-based enrichment technology, and director of projects in USEC’s corporate development department in Maryland.

Prior to USEC, Lopiano held senior management positions with various power plant business units of ABB Inc. over an 11-year period. Lopiano also previously worked for Burns and Roe, where he held positions of increasing responsibility in the engineering, procurement and construction of several power plants and cogeneration facilities.

He earned a Bachelor of Engineering in electrical engineering from Manhattan College and a Master of Engineering in nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.