Trent replaces Posey as ML&P manager

Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan has appointed James Trent as the new general manager of Municipal Light & Power, the Anchorage municipality-owned electricity utility. Trent replaces James Posey who retired in December after serving as general manager since January 2003.

“Mr. Trent has 30 years of leadership expertise in power system planning, design and operations experience managing gas and electric utilities,” Sullivan said in an April 2 press release.

Trent comes from a position as senior consultant for Rockwell Automation in Colorado, where he was involved in the design and construction of power generation programs, including being senior strategist for trash-to-energy power generation programs in Puerto Rico, Idaho and Texas.

His career in the world of energy utilities has included a directorship of the Yankee Gas Services Co. in Connecticut and being president and CEO of Pacific Utilities Management Inc. in California. From 2005 to 2008 he was general manager of Southern Missouri Natural Gas.

Municipal Light & Power supplies electricity to consumers in the northern part of Anchorage, including the downtown area of the city, and to two military bases. The utility is part owner of the Beluga River gas field on the west side of the Cook Inlet.

—Alan Bailey