As a senior advisor Zsuzsanna Pató advances RAP’s thinking on power market design, network development, demand-side flexibility, renewable integration and tariff design. She steered RAP’s flagship project developing a regulatory blueprint for the future European power sector. She has extensive experience in regulatory issues at both the EU level and the regional level in Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe.
Before joining RAP in 2018, Pató worked for the Regional Center for Energy Policy Research (REKK), a Budapest-based think tank. Her work focused on energy efficiency policy, renewable energy regulation, smart networks, power market modelling and market design.
Pató holds a master’s degree in economics from the Budapest University of Economics, a master’s in environmental science and policy from Central European University, and a doctorate in international relations from Central European University.
How Zsuzsanna Pató is Energizing Change
Gridlock in the Netherlands
The Netherlands government has laid out ambitious plans to be climate neutral by 2050 and has engaged… Read More +
Capacity markets — six mitigations for six drawbacks: A Power System Blueprint Deep Dive
Over the last 10 years Europe has witnessed the growth of capacity remuneration mechanisms (CRMs) — tools… Read More +
What does a day at RAP look like for you?
Reading-writing heavy mornings and call heavy afternoons (strictly while walking). Meeting colleagues/friends in the Brussels office are precious times.
What is something that makes you feel hopeful about the future?
Technology took the lead in the energy transition and no one can stop it. The only task is to make it inclusive and well managed.
If I were a superhero, my superpower would be to make people believe that they are able to achieve much more compared that they think they can.