Webinar: The International Legal Framework Relevant to Support Systems for Renewable Energy

As renewable energy sources are more widely used, the economic significance of the sector is also growing. The speakers will make a comparison between the USA and the EU and how these two entities approach the shift towards renewables from a legislative point of view. Mike Gatto – former four-term member of the California State Assembly and former chair of Utilities & Commerce – will forecast overall trends in California and USA, will summarize where CA is going, and speak with authority as a former policymaker in this area. Ruggero Arico is a former lawyer, currently Head of International Institutional Affairs at Enel Group and has extensive experience in international relations, governmental affairs, energy and environment regulation and legislation. Mr. Arico will address the EU’s trends and current status quo.

Presented by the International Law Section

About the Presenters

Federica Dell’Orto (Moderator) is the current Chair of the International Law Section of the Federal Bar Association. She has extensive experience in immigration, international, human rights law and in complex litigation matters. Ms. Dell’Orto has represented clients in Court during removal proceedings, as well as in asylum, bond, cancellation of removal and adjustment hearings. She has also matured ample experience with appeals in front of the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Dell’Orto obtained her JD from the University of Milan in 2013 in EU Law and International Law. In 2016, she completed an LL.M in Los Angeles, in Public International Law and was then admitted to the California Bar. She is also admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Michael Anthony “Mike” Gatto is a lawyer and an American public official. First elected to the California State Assembly in 2010, Mike Gatto served on the Banking & Finance committee, presided over Assembly sessions as Assistant Speaker, and chaired the Appropriations, Consumer Protection & Privacy, and Utilities & Commerce committees. As chair of Appropriations, he determined billions in spending each year. As chair of Consumer Protection & Privacy, he was involved in several innovative initiatives involving technology and cybersecurity. As chair of Utilities & Commerce, he guided landmark utility and energy policy, and regulatory reforms.  Along the way, he developed substantial expertise in each of those subject areas.

Mike was also the author of several landmark pieces of legislation in his tenure – and a total of fifty-five measures he authored became law.  As a lawyer Mike has achieved successful outcomes in a number of high-stakes cases before the California Court of Appeal, the California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He advises Fortune 500 companies and small businesses on how to navigate the halls of power, and guides investors and analysts on the political and regulatory climate, helping forecast trends that affect publicly traded companies.

Ruggero Aricò graduated in Law at the University of Messina, Italy in 1999 and he was admitted to the Bar in 2002. He joined Enel in 2000 at the Institutional and International Affairs Department. In 2003, he moved to Brussels to manage the institutional relations with the European Union, in particular he worked very closely to the European Parliament. After 5 years, he moved to Moscow as Head of External Relations for Russia & CIS Countries and in 2010, he moved to Algiers as Head of External Relations for Algeria. In March 2016, he became Head of Institutional Affairs for Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania in Enel Green Power, the biggest renewable energy private company in the world and currently since 2021 he is the Head of International Institutional Affairs of the entire Enel Group, directly reporting to the CEO.

Ruggero has an extensive experience in international relations, governmental affairs, energy and environment regulation and legislation. He spent most of his life outside Italy, he speaks fluently several foreign languages and he is often invited worldwide as visiting professor in universities and as conference speaker and moderator.

He is also Vice President of “Confindustria Assafrica & Mediterraneo” (the General Confederation of Italian Industry association for the development of Italian businesses in Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East), Board Member of the Italia-ASEAN Association (the association that represents and supports Italian companies in all sectors with business interests in the ASEAN countries) and Member of the Coalition for Action Steering Committee at IRENA (the International Renewable Energy Association).
He has been appointed Vice President of “Disability Pride Italy”, a non-profit organization that raises all issues that people with disabilities are facing nowadays and which organizes the Italian edition of the international event “Disability Pride”.

In 2020 he has been designated City of Messina Mayor’s Expert on Sustainability, Innovation, Smart City and Financial Innovative Tools.
He has become member of the B20, the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community (in 2021 he has been assigned to the Task Force “Action Council on Sustainability & Global Emergencies”, in 2022 to the Task Force “Energy, Sustainability and Climate”).
Member of the Scientific Committees of “Taobuk – Taormina International Book Festival“, “The Thinking Watermill Society Association” and “Mondo Internazionale”, Sustainability Advisor of “Willow Thrive”, Ruggero is also Political Advisor of TaoDust, the only start-up company in the world that combines equity crowdfunding with asset tokenization bringing off-chain projects on the blockchain.
Recently he has been appointed Board Member and Head of International Relations and Sustainability of the football club “ASD Città di Taormina”.

He is member of the Rotary Club, where he received the highest honors “Paul Harris Fellowship”.

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