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Episode description
Steve joined National Grid on 1 October 2021, bringing over 30 years of experience in the energy industry. As President of National Grid in New England, he leads over 6,000 employees and is responsible for gas and electric operations in Massachusetts, as well as LNG, HVDC, and Transmission in New England. Steve is committed to developing the most innovative, reliable, affordable solutions to bring clean energy to our more than 2.2 million New England electric and gas customers He firmly believes the time is now to focus on enabling a future where all our energy needs are met without fossil fuels and believes National Grid is positioned to lead the way by decarbonizing our gas and electric systems while ensuring a transition that is equitable for all.
Before National Grid, Steve served as President & Chief Operating Officer for Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), over which time the company recorded its highest performance in safety, service, reliability and customer satisfaction. While at BGE, Steve held numerous executive, leadership and technical roles, with responsibilities for distribution and transmission engineering, customer service, operations, emergency preparedness and construction management. Steve co-led the integration of Constellation and BGE into Exelon. Steve also led business transformation efforts of BGE’s holding company, where he also served as a senior executive with responsibility for supply chain and other shared services.
Transcript
This is CEOs you should know,
powered by iHeartMedia. Most of the electric network in this region was originally engineered
to provide lighting. Now customers are looking for electricity potentially to be an option
for how they fuel their vehicle, so that electrication of transport and heat poses
a whole new challenge, and we're embarking upon a whole rebuild to update and
increase the capability of our electric grid.
I'm Steve Warner, President of Vastal
Grid, New England. I'm responsible for our electric delivery business, our electric
transmission business, and our guest delivery business in this region. You know,
as someone who spent his career in utilities, I want to be your trusted advisor. I don't make more profit if you use more of my energy.
In the state of Massachusetts, our rates are decoupled from usage right, so
we're paid the same regardless of it's a
hot summer or a cool summer.
And when you do an energy audit, there'll be a list of recommendations.
You can pick through them and pick the ones that make sense to you.
And depending on the income level of the household, those recommendations could either be
all paid for through the mass say program itself and not cost that custom or
one additional penny, or there could be a substantial subsidy to the cost.
Across the state. We have sixty two
hundred employees that live here, they
work here, they play here. But every day they wake up with that
important mission. They really operate behind the scenes to make sure you can go
about your daily life. In most days, they do that work behind the scenes
so you don't have to worry about us. And yes, so I'm
most proud of that public service calling that we all have in this industry.
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