Stephen J. Woerner, President, National Grid New England

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.

Episode Transcript

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This is CEOs you should know,powered by iHeartMedia. Most of the electric
network in this region was originally engineeredto provide lighting. Now customers are looking
for electricity potentially to be an optionfor how they fuel their vehicle, so
that electrication of transport and heat posesa whole new challenge, and we're embarking
upon a whole rebuild to update andincrease the capability of our electric grid.

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I'm Steve Warner, President of VastalGrid, New England. I'm responsible for
our electric delivery business, our electrictransmission 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, sowe're paid the same regardless of it's a

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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 beall paid for through the mass say program
itself and not cost that custom orone additional penny, or there could be
a substantial subsidy to the cost.Across the state. We have sixty two

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hundred employees that live here, theywork here, they play here. But
every day they wake up with thatimportant mission. They really operate behind the
scenes to make sure you can goabout your daily life. In most days,
they do that work behind the scenesso you don't have to worry about
us. And yes, so I'mmost proud of that public service calling that
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