Huntsville, AL, Utilities announced March 10 that Wes Kelley has been named its president/CEO.

A member of the TVPPA Board of Directors, Kelley has served for the past five years as executive director at Columbia, TN, P & WS. He arrived in Columbia from Pulaski, TN, where he’d worked as a vice president and, later, CEO at PES Energize.

Kelley succeeds 40-year Huntsville Utilities veteran Tony Owens, who was tapped to take over on an interim basis when Jay Stowe left in August 2016 to join TVA.

In addition to his service on the TVPPA Board of Directors, Kelley chairs TVPPA’s newly formed Regulatory Advisory Group. He also sits on three joint TVPPA/TVA panels – the Regional Energy Resource Council, the Customer Planning Council and the Energy Efficiency/Demand Response Group. He is also a former member of the Distributors Insurance Co. (DIC) Board of Directors.

A native of Gadsden, AL, Kelley earned his undergraduate degree from Hillsdale (MI) College.