Charging ahead: Electric vehicles and the eVgo network
Arun Banskota
Arun Banskota
President of Electric Vehicle Services, NRG Energy
Thursday, October 11, 5:15 PM
Mezes Hall 1.306. Refreshments served at 5pm
About the speaker:
Arun
Banskota is President of NRG Energy’s Electric Vehicle Services, also
known as eVgo. Previously, Arun led NRG’s Texas Wholesale Generation
business, including a portfolio of 11,000 megawatts of diverse
generation with over $1.2 billion in earnings and numerous development
projects. Arun has more than 20 years of experience in developing,
financing and managing renewable and fossil energy projects around the
world. He served as the Managing Director of Global Power, the power
generation business unit of El Paso Corporation, where he was
responsible for 32 power plants in 14 countries with a generation
capacity of 6,500 megawatts and a diverse portfolio of development
projects. As Vice President of project
development for OptiSolar (a start-up venture, later acquired by First
Solar) Arun successfully built a backlog of solar projects totaling more
than 1,500 megawatts.
eVgo (ee-vee-go)
is part of NRG Energy Inc., a Fortune 500 company at the forefront of
changing how people think about and use energy. eVgo’s investment of
approximately $150 million will provide hundreds of eVgo Freedom Station
public fast-charging sites along with individual charging stations at
homes, offices, multifamily communities, schools and hospitals across
our networks in Texas, California and the Washington DC, Maryland,
Virginia region.
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