Horea Catanase is the Director of Interconnection Services responsible for the Eastern Interconnect and ERCOT regions at EPE. His role is to support renewable energy, large load and merchant transmission developers navigate interconnection processes across the US. His team has supported over 125 unique developers including utility scale onshore & offshore projects, large data centers, green hydrogen facilities and distribution connected generators by providing them with key insights across all stages of the interconnection process. On the large load side, Horea's team at EPE has supported diverse entities ranging from the large tech firms looking to build hyperscale datacenters to the crypto mining facilities, hydrogen electrolysers and others also looking to interconnect their facilities to the grid. Prior to EPE, Horea was in a leadership role at a different consulting firm focused on leading a team supporting ISOs like PJM, NYISO and ISO NE. His career began in Ireland, where he worked for the ESB International who was the consulting arm of the local utility  focusing on projects in Europe as well as the Middle East.