Damian Sciano
Damian is a technical advisor working with multiple stakeholders to solve today's pressing energy challenges and realize opportunities. Damian hopes to help shape and implement future energy systems and advance a sustainable and innovative energy landscape.
Damian recently retired from Consolidated Edison, Inc. (Con Edison or ConEd), after 30 years of helping deliver safe, reliable, and clean energy to New York City and Westchester County. Throughout his career, he worked to develop cogeneration projects for Trigen Energy, advance broadband over power line communications with Ambient Energy, and taught as an adjunct professor at Manhattan College and Columbia University.
Damian is a licensed professional engineer (P.E.) in the Sate of New York and earned a doctorate in electrical engineering from Manhattan College, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from The Cooper Union. Damian served on the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology board, as well as the West Side YMCA, and is currently a board member for the Marist Brothers Center of Excellence (a non-profit summer camp for children) and chairman of the Long Beach Planning Advisory Board in New York.
- Advisory
- Clean vehicles and fuels
- Climate resilience planning
- Decarbonization
- Digital modernization
- Distributed energy resources
- Electrification
- Energy
- Energy asset advisory
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Infrastructure
- Insights and analytics
- Insights and analytics
- Integrated risk management
- Leadership development
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Microgrids
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Renewable energy
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B.E., Mechanical Engineering, The Cooper Union
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M.S., Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College
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M.B.A., Finance, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College
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Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
- “Do You Know How Electricity ACTUALLY works?” Public Opinion, 2023.
- “Unleashing The Power of Integrated Data,” Energy Central, 2022.
- “How NYC Lights Up More than 1,000,000 Buildings – NYC Revealed,” Cheddar News, 2022.
- “Damian Sciano Explains What Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse Were Fighting Over,” Science Goes to the Movies!, 2020.
- "Change in Brooklyn and Queens: How New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision Program and Con Edison Are Reshaping Electric Distribution Planning," Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Magazine, 2017.
- “Evaluation of DC Links on Dense-Load Urban Distribution Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2016.
- “Universal Controller for the Interconnection of Distributed Generation with Utility Lines at Customer Levels,” International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, 2012.
- “Field Trials of Utility Applications Employing Ambient Corporation Power Line Communications at Consolidated Edison,” International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications, 2005.
