India RPCV Frank O. Heintz, president of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., will retire Oct. 1, BGE's parent company Constellation Energy Group said yesterday
Three CEOs step down at local firms
BGE: President Frank O. Heintz, 60, will retire Oct. 1 after heading the 3,100-employee utility since 2000.
By Lorraine Mirabella
Sun Staff
Originally published September 2, 2004
Frank O. Heintz, president of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., will retire Oct. 1, BGE's parent company Constellation Energy Group said yesterday.
Heintz, a former state delegate and former Maryland Public Service Commission chairman who joined BGE in 1996 as a vice president, will be succeeded by Kenneth W. DeFontes Jr., a 32-year BGE veteran and current vice president of electric transmission and distribution.
Heintz, 60, said yesterday that he is retiring to devote more time to his family, his church and the "spiritual" aspects of his life.
He has headed BGE since 2000, leading the 3,100-employee organization through the complications of Maryland's deregulation of its electric market and the weeklong challenge of restoring electricity to more than 1 million customers last fall after Tropical Storm Isabel, the region's most damaging storm ever.
BGE supplies electricity to 1.2 million electric customers and gas to another 600,000 in the Baltimore metropolitan area.
"He is someone who has dedicated the vast majority of his life to public service, and in some respects, coming to the private sector was somewhat of an aberration, but he was exceptional at it," said Mayo A. Shattuck III, Constellation's chairman, president and chief executive.
