David A. Cavanaugh
by ENE Staff | Sep 27, 2024
David is Senior Vice President Regulatory & Market Affairs at ENE, responsible for establishment and implementation of regulatory strategies that support and forward the interests of ENE and its customers in the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) stakeholder processes, with ISO New England LLC (ISO-NE), New England States Committee On Electric (NESCOE), and at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). In his role David also provides support to ENE’s Wholesale and Market Operations teams, and to ENE customers in pursuit of their objectives in the wholesale electric markets.
David has over 39 years of electric energy industry experience, having held positions in merchant power, Public Power, Investor-Owned Utility, and ISO/RTO organizations. He rejoined ENE in 2017 after spending 3 years with NRG Energy LLC, as Director, Regulatory & Market Affairs for the ISO New England Inc. markets.
Prior to his last ENE engagement, in 2013, Dave spent 13 years with ISO-NE in various leadership roles in the Market Operations division including Director of Market Services.
Earlier in his career Dave spent 15 years at Northeast Utilities (now Eversource) where he held numerous positions ranging in scope from generating plant operations, corporate support staff, and Conservation and Load management, where he managed NU’s Demand Response and Energy Efficiency participation in the ISO New England Forward Capacity Market.
Dave served as, in his elected roles, as Chair of the NEPOOL Participants Committee from 2021- 2023 and since 2019 as Vice-Chair of the NEPOOL Publicly Owned Entity (POE) sector.
