March 28, 2024 | 11 am ET
IEN’s climate solutions series will focus on opportunities for direct, high-impact investment in climate solutions. Each conversation in this interactive series will focus on a manager or group with a perspective in the market, giving them an opportunity to share their work, what they’re seeing in the space, and explore the range of what’s possible.
I Squared is a leading infrastructure investment firm that seeks to deliver innovative and practical solutions that drive results and shape our future, meeting today’s challenges for a better tomorrow. Since inception, I Squared has owned and developed over 5,800MW of renewable energy capacity.
The call's speaker was Damian Darragh, Fund Partner for the Firm’s Energy Transition Infrastructure strategy. Prior to his current role, Damian was the Founder of the UK’s largest flexible generation platform and I Squared portfolio company, Conrad Energy.
Damian spoke to how technological advancement, including battery storage, is providing critical intermittency solutions and how geopolitical tensions and legislative initiatives, including the Inflation Reduction Act, are accelerating renewable adoption across Europe and the United States.
This series is open to IEN Members only, and is a part of IEN's Net Zero Endowments Initiative. To learn more about the initiative or to join, please contact Aicha Ly at [email protected].
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Speaker:
Damian Darragh, Fund Partner, I Squared
Damian is a Fund Partner at I Squared, focused on the Energy Transition sector globally. Prior to his current role, Damian founded Conrad Energy, a Fund I and Fund II portfolio company of I Squared. Under Damian's leadership, Conrad Energy has grown to be the UK's largest flexible generation platform with a portfolio of over 1 gigawatt of gas generation, grid-connected battery and solar assets backed by a highly automated trading and operational platform.
Damian has over 30 years of private equity infrastructure investment experience, with a particular focus on renewable energy, throughout his career including setting up and sponsoring Independent Power Producers. Prior to Conrad Energy, Damian was a Managing Director at Terra Firma, where he led the investment activity in the sector. During that time, Damian built three leading renewable energy utility businesses, through organic and buy-and-build growth strategies: Infinis (which had an initial public offering as the UK's largest independent renewable energy business), EverPower (a leading U.S. onshore wind company) and RTR (an Italian solar business that was established through a series of deals with the grid operator, Terna).
In addition to being Chairman at Conrad Energy, Damian currently holds non-executive board positions at the Energia Group (an I Squared portfolio company), Lynher Energy and AEDL ( a European toll road company).
Damian has a Sloan Fellowship MSc from London Business School and a Master's degree in Electronic Engineering Science (MEng) from the University of Manchester and L'Institut Supérieur D'Electronique du Nord in Lille, France.