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

Claudio Facchin

Hitachi Energy

Chief Executive Officer

Claudio Facchin is a Senior Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi, Ltd. since April 2021. Claudio is also the CEO of Hitachi Energy. He took up his present role in July 2020, after leading the Power Grids business between 2016 and 2020 and the Power Systems Division of ABB from 2013 to 2015. Prior to this he was the Chairman and President of ABB China and responsible for the company’s North Asia region from 2010 to 2013. His career with ABB started in 1995 and in 2002 he moved to Zurich, Switzerland to head the global Service business for the erstwhile Utilities Division. He was subsequently appointed as global Business Line manager for Substations within the Power Systems Division. Claudio has a degree in Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

Sessions With Claudio Facchin

Thursday, 21 March

  • 09:45am - 10:20am (CST) / 21/mar/2024 02:45 pm - 21/mar/2024 03:20 pm

    Building the (Big) Grid of the Future
    Power/Clean Power

    The electric power sector is at the forefront of the energy transition. Renewables are rapidly replacing fossil fuel power plants while electric vehicles (EVs), heat pumps, industrial electrification and other emerging technologies are transforming the way energy is distributed and consumed. What are the key challenges as governments and companies work to modernize the grid? How can we maintain reliability in the face of more intermittent resources and more extreme weather? What are the building blocks of smarter and stronger grids?