Hugh Grant

Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS)
President and Chief Executive Officer


Hugh Grant has more than twenty-five years of experience in the utility business, with extensive industry knowledge across the generation, transmission and distribution sectors. He joins JPS from Consolidated Edison Company, the energy company that serves the ten million people of New York and Westchester in the US.

Prior to joining JPS, Grant served as Vice President of Steam Operations at Con Edison, responsible for the day-to-day operations and P&L of the district steam business in Manhattan — a system with the lowest greenhouse gas emissions of any energy system in New York City. He previously served as Vice President of Substation Operations, overseeing more than one hundred electric transmission and distribution substations serving customer demand of over 13,000MW.

Grant has a proven track record of developing and executing strategic plans, with an unwavering focus on safety, system reliability, customer satisfaction, stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Florida International University, a Master of Science in Information Systems from Pace University, and an MBA from Columbia University in New York City.