Gil C. Quiniones has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Power Authority (NYPA), the nation’s largest state-owned electric utility, since 2011.
Mr. Quiniones guides the nation’s largest state-owned electric utility, with more than $3 billion in annual revenue with 16 generation facilities totaling over 7,000 megawatts and over 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines (one-third of the high-voltage transmission in New York State). Its energy services and customer solutions business accounts for more than $250 million annually.
Mr. Quiniones also oversees a 524-mile New York State main canal system, including the legendary Erie Canal, with many smaller feeder canals, 20 upland water reservoirs and hundreds of miles of waterside trails and has the launched “Reimagine the Canals initiative,” which has been designed to preserve the heritage of the Canal and promote its long-term sustainability.
Guiding the development and implementation of NYPA’s Strategic Vision 2020, Mr. Quiniones is technologically and culturally transforming 90-year old public utility that is taking a front line position in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s battle against climate change, seeking to be the first digital utility, end to end, played a pivotal role in re-electrifying Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria, and became the first North American utility to win the prestigious ISO 55001 International Asset Management certification.
As a well-known thought leader in the electric utility industry, Mr. Quiniones is focusing on the evolution of the post-COVID-19 energy market and championing inclusion and diversity in the utility workplace, as NYPA became the first utility energy company in the country to partner with the American Association of Blacks in Energy to increase African American representation.
Before coming to NYPA, Mr. Quiniones was a senior official in the Administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, responsible for developing New York City’s energy and telecommunication policies. He was also Co-Founder and Managing Director of Energy Services of Co- ConEdison Solutions, a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Inc., as an unregulated energy services company with operations ranging from wholesale electricity and natural gas marketing and trading to retail energy supply and energy management services. Before that he had a series of management positions with Con Edison, culminating in a special assignment in 1996 to help prepare the company for impending transformation of the electric utility industry in New York State as part of the Energy Services team.
Mr. Quiniones is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Alliance to Save Energy and serves on the Boards of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the Large Public Power Council. He is also NYPA’s principal representative to the American Public Power Association.