Gil C. Quiniones

Chief Operating Officer
New York Power Authority

Gil C. Quiniones has served as Chief Operating Officer of the New York Power Authority, the nation's largest state-owned electric utility, since June 2008.

Mr. Quiniones is responsible for managing and monitoring the operation of the Power Authority's 18 power plants and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines in various parts of New York State. He oversees activities in such areas as power generation and transmission; scheduling and bidding of the Authority's generation assets into the state's energy markets; fuel supply strategies; project development and licensing; regulatory compliance; and energy policy development.

Mr. Quiniones is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electric Power Research Institute, the electric power industry's international research and development organization, and the incoming Chair of the Board's Ad Hoc Committee on Energy Efficiency and Smart Grid. He is also active in the affairs of two national public power organizations, serving on the Steering Committee of the Board of the Large Public Power Council (LPPC), as Co-Chair of the LPPC's Government Relations Task Force and as the Power Authority's principal representative to the American Public Power Association. He previously was a member of then-Lieutenant Governor David A. Paterson's Renewable Energy Task Force and Chair of the group's Subcommittee on Distributed Generation.

Before joining the Power Authority staff in October 2007 as Executive Vice President of Energy Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Mr. Quiniones served for more than four years as Senior Vice President of Energy and Telecommunications for the New York City Economic Development Corporation. In that capacity, he was the city's chief consultant on energy policy issues and established and led Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's Energy Policy Task Force, a public-private group that developed a comprehensive strategy for meeting future energy needs. He also led the development of the energy chapter of PlaNYC 2030, the city's long-term sustainability plan. In addition, he served as Co-Chair of the New York City Telecommunications Task Force and of the city's Telecommunications Policy Advisory Group.

He previously worked for Con Edison's regulated and unregulated businesses for 16 years and was one of four co-founders of Con Edison Solutions, the utility's unregulated energy services company.

Mr. Quiniones received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from De La Salle University in Manila and has completed graduate courses in engineering management and technology management at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. He has also participated in executive education programs at the Columbia University Business School.