Meeting Tomorrow’s Energy Challenges: Why Technology will Define our Energy Future (Mr. Francesco Starace)

Date: 

Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 12:15pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School

Francesco Starace has been the CEO and General Manager of the Enel Group since May 2014. Between 2008 and 2014, Mr. Starace was the CEO of Enel’s renewable energy division, Enel Green Power, which he led to its successful IPO in 2010.

Francesco Starace

Enel is a global energy company with a strong mix of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution assets, as well as a leading player in power and gas markets, in more than 30 countries across four continents. It has a large and diversified portfolio of renewable power plants and has pioneered the widespread deployment of smart meters in its distribution grid. In the United States, Enel Green Power North America, based in Andover, Mass., owns and operates over 90 renewable energy plants in 21 states, with a total installed capacity of more than 2,000 megawatts, diversified across wind, geothermal, solar, and hydro.

Lunch will be provided.

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program is co-sponsoring the talk with the Consortium for Energy Policy Research at Harvard University.

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