Pat Wood III
CEO, Hunt Energy Network
Pat Wood leads a team building and operating a network of decentralized power assets (storage, peaking generation) across Texas. In the late 1990s, Pat led the regulatory restructuring of the utilities there into a highly competitive, swift-growing power market that has slashed emissions, expanded infrastructure and kept prices low through its customer-driven model. In that quarter-century, Texas has become the 6th largest nation in the world in solar and wind capacity. With its growing clean energy development, expanding population, attractiveness to investment and large industrial base, Texas is at the center of the energy expansion.
Pat also led the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under President George W. Bush. His earlier energy infrastructure activities prior to HEN include public board service (Dynegy, Quanta Services, SunPower, Memorial Resource Development) and project development (Airtricity, First Wind, Sharyland Utilities, Xtreme Power, TPI Composites).
Outside of HEN, Pat is Vice Chairman of Luma, the joint venture rebuilding and operating Puerto Rico's electric power system. He also serves as a member of the Texas Energy Reliability Council. He is co-chair of the Pew Local Energy Resource Advisory Council and a member of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's External Advisory Council. Pat is a Texas Aggie civil engineer and a Harvard lawyer. He and his wife, Kathleen, are raising four sons in Houston, so there is never a dull moment.