His book, Lighting the World, which explores the issues involved in bringing electricity to over 1.2 billion people on earth who lack it, was published August 25, 2015, by St. Martin's Press.
[1][5][8] He was a partner with the Washington, D.C., office of the Dallas-based law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
He delivered an average annual shareholder return of more than 12 percent by rousing on sustainable growth during his tenure as CEO.
Duke Energy and its predecessor company, Cinergy, owned and/or operated assets in 17 countries in Africa, South Asia, Europe, and Central and Latin America.
In 2014 Rogers joined Duke University as a Rubenstein Fellow, to co-teach a graduate seminar, Renewables and the World’s Poor, focused on meeting the needs of the 1.2 billion people on earth who lack electrical power.
He also lectured on this subject in the five graduate schools at Duke – engineering, business, environmental science, law, and public policy.
He spoke often on the subject of energy access, the future of the power industry and the role of renewables at utility executive gatherings, social policy workshops and international confederations.
In 2008 The New York Times Magazine explored the question of whether Jim Rogers was "A Green Coal Baron?
He served as vice chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and was a founding member of the U.S.
Climate Action Partnership, a collaboration of leading businesses and environmental groups that came together to call on the federal government to enact legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
He is a past member of the honorary committee of the joint US-China cooperation on clean energy (JUCCE).