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

Nathanaël Esposito

RWE Renewables

President, Solar & Energy Storage

Nathanaël Esposito, President, Solar & Energy Storage, RWE Renewables Americas, is responsible for the division’s project development, execution, and operations activities in North America. He is also in charge of RWE’s global Solar & Storage Engineering functions. He has over 15 years of experience in general management, transactions, and management consulting with a strong focus on renewables. He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group advising major corporations across Europe. He then joined the leading independent utility in France (now Total Direct Energie), where he successively held the positions of Deputy Director of Corporate Development and Head of Solar Business. In 2010, he joined E.ON Climate & Renewables (now RWE Renewables) to launch their solar business in the United States. In his tenure at E.ON, he has held a variety of management roles, including leading successively North American M&A and Commercial Origination & PPA groups, where he oversaw all commercial contracts, hedging, and commercialization efforts for wind, solar, and energy storage. Mr. Esposito holds a Master of Science in management from HEC Paris, a Master in International Management from the pan-European CEMS program, and the Certificate of Business Excellence from the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley.

Sessions With Nathanaël Esposito

Thursday, 12 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    Large-Scale Storage in Power: How big? How economic?
    Climate & Sustainability Clean Tech Power & Renewables

    Grid-scale storage, which generally requires very large batteries, is increasingly being deployed globally to support intermittent power assets or weak grids. Although the current market role of storage is small, will this change as renewables gain ground? What markets are ripe for investment? What technologies can deliver grid-scale storage? Are there alternatives to lithium-ion batteries? What business models are emerging for these assets? What is the future of grid-scale storage?

  • 02:30pm - 03:20pm (CST) / -

    Next Generation Solar
    Clean Tech

    Global solar (photovoltaic) installations continue to grow at record pace, driven by new levels of manufacturing scale and technological innovation. The solar supply-chain continues to invest in hardware and software R&D to allow their products to remain cutting edge and to unlock the true value of solar. What new technological innovation is currently available to help reduce solar costs and improve energy yield? Which solar markets are most open to adopting next generation technology? How is innovation allowing solar to compete more effectively with other forms of energy generation?