Carnegie Mellon University

Douglas Bush

Douglas Bush

Director, Strategy and Corporate Development, Peoples Natural Gas

Douglas Bush is the Director of Strategy and Corporate Development at Peoples Natural Gas. In this role, he oversaw the management of Peoples’ three unregulated energy projects including the Pittsburgh International Airport Microgrid before leading the asset divestiture process which resulted in a $165M sale to Cordia Energy. Douglas’ initiatives also include further unregulated energy project development, hydrogen production and distribution, SOFC fuel cells, emerging tech, as well as developing long-term decarbonization strategies to assist Peoples in navigating their way through the energy transition. Douglas joined Peoples Natural Gas in 2022 as the Senior Manager of Asset Management for IMG Energy Solution’s portfolio of distributed power generation assets as well as developing 100 MWs of solar throughout Western Pennsylvania which leveraged local brownfield and abandoned coal mine acreage. Prior to IMG Energy Solutions, Douglas gained valuable industry experience within Range Resource’s natural gas marketing group, including natural gas transmission logistics and trading. Douglas has over 10 years of diverse experience within the energy industry. Douglas was born and raised in Ford City, PA and holds an Energy Finance undergrad degree from Penn State University’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.