Gil Quiniones
Gil C. Quiniones is Chief Operating Officer of the New York Power Authority (NYPA), the nation’s largest state-owned electric utility. He oversees all operating groups and is in charge of managing and monitoring all day-to-day activities at the Power Authority with direct responsibilities in energy planning and business expansion for advancing statewide initiatives in economic development, energy efficiency and clean, reliable energy supplies.
Quiniones is a Subcommittee Co-Chair for Distributed Generation, on Governor Paterson’s Renewable Energy Task Force, to help implement policy for lessening dependence on fossil fuels, stimulating investment in clean energy technologies and moving the state towards a Clean Energy Economy.
Before coming to the Power Authority, Quiniones served for more than four years as Senior Vice President of Energy and Telecommunications for the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC). While there, Quiniones acted as the city’s chief consultant on energy policy issues. He established and led the city’s Energy Policy Task Force, a public-private group that set a comprehensive strategy for meeting future energy needs and helped formulate the energy-related initiatives in PlaNYC, the city’s long-term sustainability plan. He previously worked at Consolidated Edison and was one of four Co-Founders of ConEdison Solutions, the utility’s unregulated energy services company.
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. In addition, he has participated in executive education programs at the Columbia University Business School.
Quiniones and his wife, Paula Kieffer, live in New York City with their daughter, Sela Quiniones.