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Episode description
Lisa is responsible for safe, reliable and affordable energy delivery to National Grid’s customers in New England, overseeing gas and electric operations in Massachusetts and transmission in New England. She is committed to enabling the Commonwealth’s energy transition and ambitious climate goals, while keeping Massachusetts competitive.
Prior to joining National Grid, Lisa served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Port Authority, a complex quasi-public sector organization operating vital transportation assets including Boston Logan International Airport, Hanscom Field and Worcester Airport, Maritime facilities in the Port of Boston and a large commercial real estate portfolio. During her tenure, Massport completed significant capital projects, including the expansion of Terminal E for international flights, a new post-security connection linking Logan’s busiest terminals, the dredging of Boston Harbor and the modernization of the Port’s container facilities. Lisa also launched an ambitious NetZero Plan and expanded the Massport Model, a diversity and inclusion initiative in commercial real estate that has become a model for development in the region.
Before Massport, Lisa worked as a Consultant for Bain & Company, serving clients in the health care, medical devices and consumer products industries. She began her career in broadcast journalism covering various news and political assignments for CNN.
Transcript
This is iHeartMedia's CEOs you should know, sponsored by Comcast Business Powering Possibilities. So the Commonwealth has very ambitious climacals. I think we all recognize with global warming we need to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and National Grid wants to be a partner in progress in that energy transformation. Hi, my name is Lisa Wheelan
and I'm the president of National Grid, New England. Increasingly people are going to be more dependent upon us.
It won't just be about keeping the lights on or keeping the food in the
refridge cold. Right, So if you think about needing to charge your electric
car, if you think about heating your home, you're going to expect fewer
disruptions. So people are going to need more choices about how they consume energy, and we want to be there to
help them provide that. So we
have a two billion dollar investment plan that we have proposed to build the future
grid, that smarter, stronger, cleaner grid to make sure that we can
also provide safe, reliable, affordable energy and also make that transition equitable.
One of the things that I've just been so impressed about is how deeply committed
our team is at National Grid to the communities we serve beyond just making sure
that people have the power that they need
and the energy that they need.
So through our Grid for Good program, we've invested in small businesses in our
communities. We also have energy savings program, and we also volunteer at a lot
of community organizations that could use our health. CEOs You Should Know is
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