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

Mauricio Gutierrez

NRG Energy

President & Chief Executive Officer

Mauricio Gutierrez is President and Chief Executive Officer of NRG Energy, Inc., America’s premier customer-driven, integrated power company. He joined NRG in 2004 and helped build the organization from a regional power generation business into a national, Fortune 500 diversified energy company. Prior to being named Chief Executive Officer in December 2015, Mr. Gutierrez served as Chief Operating Officer, overseeing power plant operations, commodities trading, business to business (B2B) retail sales, engineering, construction, and project development. Previously, he led all commercial operations including trading, structuring, and wholesale sales. Mr. Gutierrez began his career as a Senior Consultant at Mexico City-based DTP Consultores, working on various energy and infrastructure projects in Mexico. When the US merchant energy industry started to emerge, he joined Dynegy's management program and held various positions in its commercial and trading organization. Mr. Gutierrez is a Member of the Business Roundtable and serves on the Boards of NRG Energy, Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA), Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP), and Drexel University. Mr. Gutierrez holds a bachelor's degree from the Universidad Panamericana and two master's degrees—one from the Colorado School of Mines and one from the French Institute of Petroleum.

Sessions With Mauricio Gutierrez

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?