Highview Power announced that Dr Javier Cavada Camino will join the company as its chief executive officer and president. Cavada will drive the international deployment of Highview Power’s proprietary liquid air energy storage (LAES) technology and execute the company’s ambitious 10-year global expansion strategy. He will lead a team across the company’s United Kingdom headquarters in London and United States offices in New York.
Current Highview Power chief executive officer Gareth Brett will become vice chairman when Javier Cavada joins the company in September. Brett has led the company for 10 years during which time he has taken Highview Power’s LAES technology from development to demonstration and established the first two fully operational LAES plants in the world.
Javier Cavada joins from Wärtsilä Corporation, one of the world’s top three technology companies in the energy market and a global leader in smart technologies and complete energy lifecycle solutions. Since 2015, he has been president of the Energy Solutions division and executive vice president, leading the company’s global energy business and driving its vision towards 100 percent renewables as the most advanced system integrator. Under Cavada’s leadership, Wärtsilä’s global market share in gas and liquid fuel power plants (up to 500 MW) has grown from 9 percent in 2015 up to 19 percent in 2017, reaching levels over 20 percent already in 2018 by implementing a smart strategy to maximize the use of renewables in the grid, providing the required flexibility. His 17 year career at Wärtsilä has included extensive international experience, including executive roles in China, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Finland.
Published in the August 2018 Edition