{"id":2577,"date":"2013-12-03T20:10:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2013-12-12T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T15:08:21","slug":"top-of-the-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"Top of the power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Larry Monroe<\/strong>, \u201979 <a title=\"ChE\" href=\"http:\/\/eng.auburn.edu\/programs\/chen\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">chemical engineering<\/a>, has been recognized as one of <em>Power Engineering<\/em> magazine\u2019s top 25 most influential people in the power industry during the past 25 years. Monroe, ranked number 16, is currently general manager of environmental affairs at Georgia Power Company.<\/p>\n<p><em>Power Engineering<\/em> announced its top 25 most influential people daily leading up to the POWER-GEN 2013 conference on Nov. 12 in Orlando. The honorees were nominated and selected based on a poll of peers and industry professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe joined <a title=\"Southern Company \" href=\"http:\/\/www.southerncompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Company<\/a> in 1998 as a program manager for emissions control research in the research and environmental affairs department. He was responsible for developing and improving processes to control emissions from the company\u2019s fossil-fired generation fleet. He was named senior research consultant in 2007 \u2013 the highest level technical position in the company.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe has also been a part of several outreach initiatives, most prominently in pollution control research for coal power plants in university, not-for-profit research institutes and corporate settings. He also serves on the board of the Clean Air Campaign in Atlanta. He is the past president of the Auburn University Chemical Engineering Alumni Council, and serves on the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council and the Auburn Research Advisory Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Monroe, \u201979 chemical engineering, has been recognized as one of Power Engineering magazine\u2019s top 25 most influential people in the power industry during the past 25 years. Monroe, ranked number 16, is currently general manager of environmental affairs at Georgia Power Company. 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