• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Lynda Clemmons

NRG Energy

Chief Sustainability Officer

Lynda Clemmons is the Chief Sustainability Officer for NRG, where she leads the company’s sustainability strategy. Lynda and her team collaborate with stakeholders across the company to drive initiatives and create opportunities that advance a cleaner energy future for NRG and our customers. In her eleven years at NRG, Lynda has been recognized for her innovative work at the intersection of sustainability and energy. Here, she has led market-facing teams dedicated to sustainability advisory, renewable energy brokerage, and commercial and new product innovation, including carbon offsets. Lynda also ran an incubator for growing businesses and early-stage opportunities within NRG Business. Lynda started her career as an analyst with an investment bank. She then spent eight years at Enron, where she initiated the weather derivatives business as well as the SO2 and NOx emissions trading desk. In 2000, Lynda co-founded and was COO of XL Weather and Energy (a division of XL Capital Ltd), a trading and insurance company based in Connecticut. She also co-founded and was the former President of the Weather Risk Management Association. Lynda serves as Vice Chair of EVolve Houston, a public-private partnership for transportation electrification. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and French from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Finance from Tulane University.

Sessions With Lynda Clemmons

Monday, 18 March

  • 02:00pm - 02:30pm (CST) / 18/mar/2024 07:00 pm - 18/mar/2024 07:30 pm

    Measuring Tomorrow's Risks: Quantifying physical risks in a warmer world
    Policy & Regulatory

    As climate change intensifies, understanding and measuring the physical risks associated with changing climate are paramount. With 2023 being the hottest year on record, and the U.S. experiencing extreme weather events costing over $150 billion annually, managing and adapting to physical climate risks is becoming increasingly critical. We have already seen power and other energy infrastructure suffering serious damage due to extreme events such as wildfires and floods. Companies will experience significant financial costs over the coming decades due to physical climate risks, driving the application of new technologies and methodologies to more accurately quantify these risks. How can we start to apply these new technologies and methods to manage physical risk in a warming world?