Dermot McArdle

Head of Business Markets

ESB

Biography

Dermot McArdle is the Business Markets Manager at ESB Group where he is responsible for the management and delivery of ESB Group’s business solutions to the LEU and SME sectors, in both Ireland and Northern Ireland,  including electricity and gas supply, and telecom offerings.

Dermot has been with energy industry for over 30 years. In his time with ESB Group he has held senior management positions  across the finance, commercial, generation, supply and trading businesses. This included a notable two-year stint as the manager of ESB eCars, where he championed the EUs ENEVATE programme to trial fully electric commercial vehicles in city centre locations, and the Dublin City Council eCar Pooling Scheme.

Since December 2018, Dermot has been shaping the business vision of ESBs Brighter Future initiative, to manage the development of ESBs business markets into 2030 and beyond, identifying the Datacentres industry as the key area of growth for the energy sector.