Sami Kabbani

Senior Vice President of Energy
Covanta

As the Senior Vice President of Energy at Covanta, Sami Kabbani is responsible for addressing energy issues (power, gas, and steam) associated with the company's plants located various regions of the United States. His responsibilities include origination and marketing of energy and renewable products, energy contract structuring, restructuring and negotiations, pricing and analytics, ISO scheduling/bidding activities and energy growth business development. In addition, Sami oversees the company's Energy Risk Management program and associated hedging activities as well as the retail sales program.

He has been involved with the power industry since 1987 and served in different positions addressing a wide array of issues covering both supply-and demand-side areas, retail sales, development, financing, and power market assessments in both domestic and international power markets. Prior to joining Covanta Energy, he was vice president at Pace Global (now a Siemens' business), as the head of the power practice. Before that, he worked at the Potomac Electric Power Company ("Pepco") where he was responsible for supporting the analysis of various non-utility generation proposals/ projects and associated contracts as well as supporting the development of the company's Integrated Resource Plan and the calculation of the company's avoided cost using state-of-the-art models. Sami held other positions in energy industry where he provided support for Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.'s Demand-side management projects and the Department of Energy's Clean Coal Technology program.

Sami earned his master's degree in Engineering Administration from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) under the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research program. He also earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from George Washington University.