Master entrepreneur: George T. Lewis Jr., Cogentrix Inc.

AuthorEldridge, Lisa
PositionEntrepreneur of the Year

Until his mid-50s, George Lewis was a company man, rising through the ranks at Boston-based engineering company Charles T. Main. Then in the early '80s, Lewis came up with a moneymaking proposition. Why not, he asked his boss, take advantage of a new federal law that required utilities to buy electricity "cogenerated" by industrial steam plants?

Good idea, his boss said, but not right now. So Lewis quit and in 1983 started Charlotte-based Cogentrix, which builds small power plants that sell steam...

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