Head of Project Development, Offshore Development & Origination
Ørsted
Patricia (Patty) leads the Ørsted’s North American Offshore Project Development team, including all strategic and growth efforts in pre-asset project development and bid submissions. She has over twenty years of experience in strategy, project development, finance and engineering. Most recently DiOrio served as Vice President of U.S. Strategy with National Grid, one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the United States, serving more than 20 million customers throughout New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In this role, she led strategy development for the company’s U.S. regulated networks businesses, and for its unregulated arm, National Grid Ventures (NGV).
Prior to joining National Grid in 2015, Patty was a Research Director at IHS CERA, a prominent global advisory firm. Previously, she held leadership roles in power generation project development and acquisitions for Competitive Power Ventures, Inc., a privately held independent power producer, and PG&E National Energy Group.
DiOrio holds an MBA from Babson College, a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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