Luca Lo Schiavo is currently Director of the Energy Monitoring and System Services Directorate at the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy (ARERA), where he works since 1997.

He is an expert of quality of service and innovation in the power system, with a special focus on output-based incentive regulation for energy infrastructures, smart metering, regulatory sandboxes and pilot regulation. He has been directly involved in many of the cases of regulatory experiments led by ARERA, described in the two ISGAN Casebooks (2019 and 2021). 

He is member of the ACER Infrastructures TF and of CEER Distribution Systems WG. Within the CEER DS WG he has acted as drafting lead of the CEER paper “Regulatory sandboxes and incentive regulation” (Ref: C21-DS-74-04).

Among his most recent publications, the one co-authored with Filippo Bovera (Politecnico di Milano) is about regulatory sandboxes and other tools of Dynamic regulation (Energy Policy 171 (2022) n.113299).