Sarah Orban Salati

Chief Commercial Officer, National Grid Ventures US

Sarah Orban Salati is the Chief Commercial Officer for National Grid Ventures US, the competitive arm of National Grid. In this role, Sarah oversees commercial growth activities and partnerships for NGV’s generation on Long Island, competitive transmission, LNG, and other clean energy technologies such as batteries and hydrogen. She is leading the expansion of NGV’s bulk transmission business nationally, building on NGV’s successful membership in the New York Transco and other partnerships. Sarah also serves as the co-Executive Sponsor of the NewNet Employee Resource Group, the largest ERG at National Grid.

Previously, Sarah was the Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of the New York Power Authority (NYPA). She managed wholesale and retail commercial operations, overseeing $2 billion in annual revenues from NYPA’s power generating assets. Sarah led NYPA’s grid-scale transmission and storage development and its integrated customer solutions, which included customer-sited distributed energy resources, turnkey energy efficiency projects, and the build-out of EVolve – NYPA’s statewide electric vehicle fast charging network. She was also the Executive Sponsor of the Women in Power Employee Resource Group, the first ERG at NYPA.

From 2005 to 2018, Sarah held various positions at the AES Corporation in strategic, commercial, operational, and innovation roles, including expatriate positions in London, England, and Budapest, Hungary. Sarah holds a BA from Yale University and an MA from Johns Hopkins University.