"When you look at a slate of 13 candidates, from my vantage point, with the heavy lifting that PG&E has to do going forward, that raises some real concerns," Dodd said. Less Than a Day Johnson, who announced his retirement from the TVA in November, may be best known as the man who served as CEO of Duke Energy Corp (NYSE: DUK ). for less than a day. He had been appointed as part of the company's $17.8 billion takeover of Progress Energy in 2012 but was replaced eight hour later with James Rogers, the former Duke CEO who was supposed to become executive chairman.