Lisa Wieland, President, National Grid New England

Lisa is responsible for safe, reliable and affordable energy delivery to National Grid’s customers in New England, overseeing gas and electric operations in Massachusetts and transmission in New England. She is committed to enabling the Commonwealth’s energy transition and ambitious climate goals, while keeping Massachusetts competitive.

Prior to joining National Grid, Lisa served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Port Authority, a complex quasi-public sector organization operating vital transportation assets including Boston Logan International Airport, Hanscom Field and Worcester Airport, Maritime facilities in the Port of Boston and a large commercial real estate portfolio. During her tenure, Massport completed significant capital projects, including the expansion of Terminal E for international flights, a new post-security connection linking Logan’s busiest terminals, the dredging of Boston Harbor and the modernization of the Port’s container facilities. Lisa also launched an ambitious NetZero Plan and expanded the Massport Model, a diversity and inclusion initiative in commercial real estate that has become a model for development in the region.

Before Massport, Lisa worked as a Consultant for Bain & Company, serving clients in the health care, medical devices and consumer products industries. She began her career in broadcast journalism covering various news and political assignments for CNN.

Episode Transcript

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This is iHeartMedia's CEOs you should know, sponsored by Comcast Business Powering Possibilities.
So the Commonwealth has very ambitious climacals. I think we all recognize with global
warming we need to reduce greenhouse gasemissions and National Grid wants to be a
partner in progress in that energy transformation. Hi, my name is Lisa Wheelan
and I'm the president of National Grid, New England. Increasingly people are going

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to be more dependent upon us.It won't just be about keeping the lights
on or keeping the food in therefridge cold. Right, So if you
think about needing to charge your electriccar, if you think about heating your
home, you're going to expect fewerdisruptions. So people are going to need
more choices about how they consume energy, and we want to be there to
help them provide that. So wehave a two billion dollar investment plan that

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we have proposed to build the futuregrid, that smarter, stronger, cleaner
grid to make sure that we canalso provide safe, reliable, affordable energy
and also make that transition equitable.One of the things that I've just been
so impressed about is how deeply committedour team is at National Grid to the
communities we serve beyond just making surethat people have the power that they need

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and the energy that they need.So through our Grid for Good program,
we've invested in small businesses in ourcommunities. We also have energy savings program,
and we also volunteer at a lotof community organizations that could use our
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not just possible, it's happening.