Senior Vice President, Strategy, Technical, and Industry Affairs
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)
Rosslyn, Virginia, United States
Patrick E. Hughes is Senior Vice President of Strategy, Technical, and Industry Affairs at the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), the industry-leading trade association and ANSI-accredited standards developing organization. NEMA represents 325 electrical equipment manufacturers that make safe, reliable, and efficient products and systems serving four market sectors: Grid, Buildings, Industrial, and Mobility. NEMA-represented industries account for 370,000 American jobs and $124 billion in annual shipments.
Patrick leads a team of technical experts working together to drive adoption of technologies used in renewables integration, power transmission and distribution, energy storage, buildings, transportation, and industrial systems. He also oversees NEMA's strategic planning activities to position NEMA and electrical manufacturers for long-term success and sustainability. Patrick directs the NEMA Campaigns program to coordinate the electroindustry's response to today's opportunities and challenges, including the energy transition, supply chain, and infrastructure.
Patrick also serves as President of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG), a non-profit broad-based public interest advocacy coalition focused on the need to expand, integrate, and modernize the North American high-voltage grid.
Before his promotion to Senior Vice President, Patrick was Senior Director of Government Relations and Strategic Initiatives where he was the principal lead for NEMA's legislative and regulatory government relations work on grid modernization, high-performance buildings, energy storage systems, electric vehicles, and more. Before joining NEMA, Patrick was Senior Associate at the Energy Future Coalition, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation, where he developed innovative new policy approaches to increase the energy efficiency of commercial buildings and advocated for policies that resulted in increased investment in electric grid infrastructure to interconnect remote renewable energy resources.
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