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

Pedro J. Pizarro

EEI Chair

President & Chief Executive Officer, Edison International

Pedro Pizarro is president and chief executive officer of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. Edison International is also the parent company of Edison Energy, a portfolio of competitive businesses providing commercial and industrial customers with energy management and procurement services. He is a member of Edison International’s board of directors. Previously, Pizarro served as president of SCE and president of Edison Mission Energy (EME), an independent power producer subsidiary. Pizarro joined Edison International in 1999, moved to SCE in 2001 and progressed through several leadership roles before joining EME. Before his work at Edison, Pizarro was a senior engagement manager with McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles, providing management consulting services to energy, technology, engineering services and banking clients. Pizarro earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and held National Science Foundation and Department of Defense graduate fellowships. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard University. Pizarro is chair of the Edison Electric Institute, co-chairs the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council and serves on the boards of Caltech and 3M. He served on the boards of the Electric Power Research Institute, Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk and Argonne National Laboratory, among other organizations. Pizarro also represented the electric industry on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), co-chaired the SEAB Innovation Working Group and served on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery.

Sessions With Pedro J. Pizarro

Thursday, 12 March

  • 09:40am - 10:30am (CST) / -

    Plenary - The Shifting Narrative for the Power Business: Deregulation to decarbonization

    Power & Renewables

    Simple and appealing stories periodically gain traction and create narratives of industry transformation that influence public policy and corporate strategy development. However, narratives do not always provide insights into the future. Looking back, the deregulation narrative did not provide insights into the transition from traditional regulation to the current complex mix of market forces and regulatory processes. Looking ahead, a strategic challenge exists to evaluate the feasibility and internal consistency of the decarbonization narrative that is gaining traction and driving climate policy initiatives and a vision of the electric utility of the future. What ideas about the electricity future are going viral and shaping the decarbonization narrative? Did the gap between the expectations and the realities of deregulation provide lessons for managing the expectations associated with the decarbonization narrative?