“ESB’S NEW CORPORATE STRATEGY AND THE ROLE OF ELECTRICITY IN A CARBON FREE WORLD?

Keynote Address by Padraig MacManus, Chief Executive, ESB

About the Speech:

Padraig MacManus discussed ESB’s groundbreaking corporate strategy, announced on March 27, 2008. He evaluated the role that the electrification of transport and heating may play as part of a strategy to reduce Ireland’s emissions in the period to 2035 and beyond, and ESB’s role in driving this agenda.

Padraig McManus was appointed Chief Executive and Member of the Board in July 2002. He joined ESB in 1973 and spent fifteen years on the Company\'s international businesses and later became Managing Director ESB International and Commercial Director, ESB.