Fred Haddad
Fred Haddad Bio

Mr. Haddad has over 35 years of utility management experience, primarily focused in the electric and water utility industry. He has demonstrated expertise in the areas of power generation development, operations, retail and wholesale power marketing, asset optimization, commodity fuel procurement, and the negotiation of complex physical and financial infrastructure related transactions.

He has been responsible for the planning, permitting, construction, and operation of state-of-the-art traditional and renewable electric generation assets using best available environmental control technologies. He has proven ability to develop and negotiate large-scale purchase power agreements, commodity fuel portfolio procurements, and transportation contracts for both rail and natural gas pipelines. He also has created and executed complex asset restructuring programs for the optimization of individual utility, joint action and power pool portfolios.

Mr. Haddad has developed financial hedging programs for energy price stabilization. He has utilized significant electric market experience to develop new approaches for management of regional water resources and business plans to meet compliance requirements for water consumptive use permits. He has negotiated multiple utility renewable energy and reuse water agreements with local governmental agencies.

Prior to joining nFront Consulting, he was with the Orlando Utilities Commission from 1977 through 2007, the 16th largest fully-integrated, AA rated municipal electric and water utility in the United States and second largest in Florida servicing approximately 196,000 customers in Orlando, unincorporated Orange County and St. Cloud, FL. For the last 11 years of his tenure, Mr. Haddad served as Vice President of OUC’s Power Resources Business Unit. He has been an independent consultant serving many utility clients since leaving OUC in 2007.