Pat Wood

CEO, Hunt Energy Network
Former Chair of FERC

Pat Wood III is the past Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT). The son of a small businessman, Mr. Wood has been a forceful advocate throughout his career for customer-centered, technology-unleashing competition and for robust infrastructure.

Today, as CEO of the Hunt Energy Network, Wood and his team are deploying a portfolio of distributed power assets across Texas. By the end of 2023, the team expects to have a portfolio of 25 distribution-interconnected batteries attached to the ERCOT power grid.

Mr. Wood has served as a director of a number of public energy companies: independent power producer Dynegy (Board chairman); solar pioneer SunPower (lead independent director), modular nuclear generation (NuScale) sponsor Spring Valley Acquisition Corp., natural gas producer Memorial Resource Development, and specialty construction firm Quanta Services. Mr. Wood is vice chair of the board of Luma Energy, overseeing the Quanta-ATCO joint venture to rebuild and operate the Puerto Rico utility system.

Gillian Clegg

Vice President, Energy Policy and Procurement

Pacific Gas and Electric

Clegg has more than two decades of experience in the energy policy and procurement field. Since joining PG&E in 2007, she has held key roles of increasing responsibility within the company's Energy Policy and Procurement team. Clegg's extensive experience includes effectively negotiating and procuring agreements for renewable energy, energy storage, resource adequacy and other wholesale market products, and overseeing planning, analysis and financial hedging for PG&E's electric portfolio. Additionally, she has developed numerous policy positions to support customers in legislative and regulatory matters.

Prior to PG&E, Clegg served as a Quantitative Analyst for Powerex, a power and natural gas trading company in Vancouver, Canada.

William Walsh

Vice President, Energy Procurement & Management

Southern California Edison

William Walsh is vice president of the Energy Procurement and Management organization at Southern California Edison (SCE). He is responsible for SCE’s wholesale energy contracting and management, energy and emissions trading, and wholesale energy market and settlement operations.

Previously, William was an Assistant General Counsel in the SCE Law Department. His groups were responsible for cybersecurity, litigating the company’s positions before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and all transactional work related to SCE’s energy procurement, interconnection agreements, and supply management activities.

William has held other legal management positions at SCE, including serving as the Director and Managing Attorney for the Resource Policy and Planning group, Power Procurement group, and Contracts and Intellectual Property group.

William has also served as the Manager of Renewable Procurement and was responsible for leading a team of originators in the procurement of all of SCE’s renewable power through competitive solicitations, bilateral opportunities, and standard renewable procurement programs.