Electrification
Pedro Azagra Blázquez is the CEO of AVANGRID. Basil Scarsella is the CEO of UK Power Networks.
This conversation at the Edison Electric Institute's 7th Annual Global Electrification Forum brought two CEOs together who have much international experience. AVANGRID CEO Pedro Azagra Blázquez formerly served as the Chief Development Officer for Iberdrola, where he has executed more than one hundred transactions and led its international expansion.
A member of Spain's multinational Iberdrola Group, AVANGRID's primary businesses are Networks, serving 3.3 million electric and natural gas customers in the northeast U.S., and Renewables, the third-largest renewable energy company in the U.S.
UK Power Networks CEO Basil Scarsella is a former CEO of ETSA Utilities, a privatized electricity distribution business in Australia and Northern Gas Networks in England. UK Power Networks is owned by CK Infrastructure Holdings Limited, and CKI is a global infrastructure company based in Hong Kong. Enjoy the excerpts of this CEO Leadership Dialogue.
UK Power Networks CEO Basil Scarsella: Our owners are Hong Kong-based. They are one of the largest foreign investors in the UK. They invest in infrastructure globally, in retail globally. They operate in some thirty-five countries around the world and have some two hundred thousand employees worldwide. In UK Power Networks, we have six thousand employees, 1.7 billion pounds of revenue.