Zeryai Hagos, ORES Executive Director
Zeryai Hagos is a clean energy executive with more than 20 years of experience in government and the private sector. He has a proven track record as a leader of regulatory, policy, and business initiatives in the utility and clean energy industries.
Prior to his ORES appointment, Mr. Hagos had been the Deputy Director of Clean Energy and Markets within the Office of Markets and Innovation at DPS. In this role, he was responsible for all areas pertaining to grid connected large-scale and distributed energy resources to achieve New York’s renewable energy goals. Mr. Hagos and his team were also responsible for the development and monitoring of New York’s long-term grid planning processes, wholesale and retail market policies, along with the energy storage, and electric vehicle charging deployment goals and policies.
Before coming to DPS, Mr. Hagos was the Senior Director of Business Development at Tendril (Uplight), where he helped grow a new distributed energy resources platform called Orchestrated Energy.
Mr. Hagos began his career at General Electric, where he most recently served as the Growth & Strategy Director for GE’s Power business in the US. his responsibilities at GE included leading cross-business growth initiatives in the electric power sector, managing GE's long-term power market forecast in North America and serving as a subject matter expert for the US power markets in support of corporate strategy
Mr. Hagos holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and political science from Bucknell University and a master’s degree in economic forecasting at the State University of New York at Albany. He lives in New York’s Capital Region, with his wife and two daughters.