Management Bios

Roger A. Fontes
General Manager and CEO

Roger A. Fontes is General Manager and CEO of the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA), a position he has held since March 2001.

Fontes has 37 years of experience in the utility industry. Prior to joining FMPA, he was the Assistant General Manager at the Northern California

Power Agency (NCPA). Fontes spent 20 years with NCPA, including executive positions as System Planning and Development Manager and Legislative and Regulatory Manager. During this period he was appointed by California’s Governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior to serve on the Bay-Delta Advisory Council representing the state’s hydroelectric power industry
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Prior to joining NCPA, Fontes was employed for five years by the California Energy Commission as Chief Energy Engineer and Energy Supply Assessment Manager. He was with the city of Los Angeles and the Department of Water and Power from 1971 to 1976.

Fontes is co-founder and Executive Committee member of the Transmission Access Policy Study (TAPS) Group. TAPS is a national association of transmission-dependent electric utilities that supports non-discriminatory transmission access as well as vigorous, competitive wholesale electric markets. FMPA is a charter member of TAPS.

Fontes serves on the Board of Directors of the American Public Power Association (APPA), the national trade organization for public power utilities. He is a past chair of APPA’s Legislative and Resolutions Committee. Fontes was elected as the first President of the Board of Directors of Public Gas Partners. This first-of-its-kind non-profit corporation is in business to purchase producing natural gas production facilities throughout the U.S. to lower costs for consumers. Fontes is a member of the Florida Municipal Power Pool’s Executive Committee and the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council’s Board of Directors.

Fontes holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from California State University, Los Angeles, and a master’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of Southern California. He has published articles on clean coal technologies, combined cycle generation development, power pooling, geothermal project development, integrated energy planning, competitive market theory and energy risk management.