Henry B. Barron
Executive Vice President of Constellation Energy; President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Nuclear Officer of Constellation Energy Nuclear Group

Brew Barron joined Constellation Energy on April 1, 2008, as executive vice president of Constellation Energy and president, chief executive officer and chief nuclear officer of Constellation Energy Nuclear Group. He is responsible for nuclear development opportunities and oversight of Constellation Energy's nuclear generation fleet, which includes the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby, Md., Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in Scriba, N.Y., and R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Station near Rochester, N.Y.

Barron has nearly 35 years of experience in the energy industry. He joined Constellation Energy from Duke Energy where he held the position of group executive and chief nuclear officer. He joined Duke Power in 1972 as an engineer at the Oconee Nuclear Station near Seneca, S.C., and subsequently held positions of increasing responsibility at all three Duke Energy Nuclear Power Stations.

From 1994 through 1996, he served as vice president and general manager of nuclear operations at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Engineering as part of the Duke Engineering & Services, LLC, subsidiary. He is past chairman of the board of governors for Duke, Cogema, Stone & Webster, LLC, a joint venture formed to design, construct and operate a mixed-oxide fuel fabrication facility for the Department of Energy.

Barron has been a registered professional engineer in North Carolina, South Carolina and Idaho. He has held a Nuclear Regulatory Commission-issued reactor operator license for Oconee Nuclear Station and a senior reactor operator license for McGuire Nuclear Station, both owned and operated by Duke Power. He is past chairman of the Executive Committee of the Westinghouse Owners Group. He is a past member of the American Nuclear Society where he served as chairman of the reactor operations division and chairman of the Piedmont-Carolinas Section. Barron is also a member of the accreditation board of the National Academy for Nuclear Training and the Department of Energy Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee.

A native of Fair Haven, N.J., Barron graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science degree in nuclear engineering.

Barron was born in 1950. He and his wife, Jacqueline, have two daughters and five grandchildren.