Elizabeth B. Higgins is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Oglethorpe Power Corporation, the nation’s largest power supply cooperative in assets, annual sales and ultimate customers served.  Oglethorpe Power supplies wholesale power to 38 of Georgia’s 41 Electric Membership Corporations (EMC’s) which serve over four million Georgians living in approximately two-thirds of the state’s land area.  The Corporation has assets of approximately $10 billion and annual revenues of $1.3 billion.

 

Ms. Higgins responsibilities at Oglethorpe Power include strategic planning, power supply planning and analysis, budgeting and forecasting, risk management, corporate compliance, finance, accounting and tax.

 

Before joining Oglethorpe Power in 1997, Ms. Higgins worked for several consulting firms including Southern Engineering, Deloitte & Touche, and Energy Management Associates.

 

Ms. Higgins graduated with high honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering.  She also holds a Masters of Business Administration, with a concentration in finance, from Georgia State University.