Giorgio Graditi, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

General Director of ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable
Economic Development, Rome, Italy.
He received the doctoral degree and the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from theUniversity of Palermo (Italy). Since 2000, he is a Researcher at ENEA. Since July 2020, he is the Director ofthe Department of Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources of ENEA. From 2011 to 2017, he was thehead of the Photovoltaic Systems and Smart Grid Unit of ENEA, whereas from 2018 to 2019 he was thehead of Solar Thermal and Smart Network Division of ENEA. He is the responsible of ENEA initiatives andactivities for the National recovery and Resilience Plan.
From April 2019, he is the President of MEDENER, Mediterranean Association of National Agencies forEnergy Management for energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources, and from May
2019 is the Coordinator of the Scientific Technical Committee of National Energy Technological Cluster
under the Ministry of Education, University and Research. He is a member of IEA task 11 “PV Hybrid
systems within mini-grids” and task 14 “High penetration of PV systems in electricity grids” and of ItalianElectrotechnical Committee (CEI) CT 82 “Solar photovoltaic”, CT 316 “Connection to LV, MV and HV
distribution networks” and CT 313 “Smart grids”.
In 2017, he received the Italian National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in the sector of electricalenergy engineering. He is operating as Italian member for Mission Innovation Challenge 1 “Smart Grids”
and Challenge 2 “Off-grid access to electricity”, and he was a member of the H2020 National Steering Boardfor the “Safe, Clean and Efficient Energy” Cluster, and member of the working group of the thematic area
“Industrial Energy” for the “Climate, Energy and Sustainable Mobility” area set up by the Italian Ministry ofUniversity and Research within the drafting of the national research plan 2020-2027. He is the vicecoordinator of the Joint Programme on Smart Grid (JP SG) within European Energy Research Alliance(EERA) and the responsible of many National and European (FP7, H2020) projects on the topics of RES,integrated energy networks and smart grid.
His main research interests are in: design, modelling and tools development for the control and managementof Smart Grids and microgrids in the presence of DER; energy conversion components and systems designand characterization; performance analysis of integrated energy networks by multi-objective techniques;design, modelling, and analysis of multi-energy hubs; management and operation optimization of local andrenewable energy communities; design, characterization and testing of concentrated solar power andphotovoltaic components and plants; technologies and uses of hydrogen; RES production and demand
forecasting based on artificial intelligence techniques.
He has supervised several MSc and PhD theses. He is also peer review, associated editor, member ofeditorial and advisory board of scientific journals, and chairman in international conference. He is also
responsible of many R&D contract and agreement in the energy sector with international and nationalstakeholders. He is author of scientific books, of more than 250 scientific papers (with Scopus H-index 39)
published in international journals and proceedings of international conference some of them awarded ashighly-cited papers.