Center Cuts: Advanced Energy Center

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CENTER CUTS:

ADVANCED ENERGY CENTER DIGEST

Issue No.16 - Fall 2022

As we accelerate toward a new energy future, AEC 2022 is bringing you three action-packed days to help you and your organization chart a course forward. AEC 2022 is your opportunity to hear from and connect with the nation’s preeminent energy leaders, thinkers and doers through our exciting slate of workshops, panel discussions, keynotes and plenary sessions with industry experts, networking opportunities, and robust show floor.

POWER PLAYERS - Our Partners

Con Edison, the energy company serving New York City and Westchester County, strives to lead the clean-energy transition while maintaining safe, reliable service. On a mission to deliver 100-percent clean, renewable energy by 2040, the company offers robust energy-efficiency programs, supports the electrification of buildings and transportation sectors, and works to make it easier for customers to choose solar and other distributed resources.

In dramatically reducing its own carbon emissions, investing in energy storage, building new transmission lines specifically to deliver renewable energy and researching future uses for its existing gas-transmission systems, Con Edison fully supports New York State’s environmental goals.

ADVISOR 411 - Our Board

Jeffrey Grybowski

Chief Executive Officer

US Wind, Inc.

Jeffrey Grybowski is a leader in the U.S. offshore-wind industry.

As the chief executive officer of Deepwater Wind from 2012 to 2018, he spearheaded groundbreaking efforts to launch the national offshore-wind industry and was intimately involved in the development of America’s first offshore-wind farm, the Block Island Wind Farm.

Under his leadership, Deepwater Wind developed a portfolio of 1,000 megawatts of awarded offshore wind contracts, including the first offshore wind projects for the states of New York, Maryland, Connecticut and Rhode Island. After the 2018 acquisition of Deepwater Wind by Danish multinational Ørsted, Grybowski served as co-CEO of Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind until stepping down in 2019.

A proven leader in the U.S. offshore wind industry, Grybowski has served on the boards of numerous leading industry organizations and institutions, including the American Wind Energy Association, the National Ocean Industries Association, Roger Williams University and Stony Brook University’s Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center.

A former chief of staff to the governor of the State of Rhode Island, he practiced corporate law at Hinckley, Allen & Snyder in Providence, R.I., and at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City.

Grybowski earned a bachelor’s degree in public policy (with honors) from Brown University and a J.D. (with high honors) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.