Here is the speaker line-up for our November 20, 2019 SPIE-switch Event
2019 SPIE-switch Keynote Speaker
Dian Grueneich
Keynote speaker Dian Grueneich, Precourt Energy Scholar, Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, member of the Shultz-Stephenson Energy Policy Task Force at the Hoover Institution, Affiliated Scholar with The Bill Lane Center for the American West, former CPUC Commissioner.
2019 SPIE-switch speakers and their bios
Dian Grueneich
Dian Grueneich in an internationally recognized energy expert with over 40 years of experience. Served as a Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission 2005-2010. Current areas of focus include deep decarbonization, the changing electric grid, and new frontiers in energy efficiency.
Jacques Chalendar
Jacques de Chalendar is a doctoral candidate in the Energy Resources Engineering department at Stanford University and a State Grid Graduate Student Fellow through Stanford’s Bits and Watts initiative. His Ph.D. research focuses on applying state-of-the-art computational tools to energy and carbon management problems. He is an Ingénieur Polytechnicien from the French Ecole Polytechnique.
Peter Shoemaker
Pete Shoemaker is the Renewables Program Coordinator at the PG&E Pacific Energy Center (PEC) in San Francisco. He teaches and facilitates courses on a variety of subjects, including solar electric (PV) systems, solar water heating systems, integrating and evaluating energy efficiency and renewables, smart grid, energy storage and others. He also hosts job fairs at the PEC in the PV and smart grid fields.
Stephanie Perry
Stephanie leads commercial transactions at 8minutenergy, focusing on procurement and power marketing partnerships and contracts. Stephanie has over 14 years of experience working in the renewable energy market, technology evaluation, engineering, solar project development, and commercial contract negotiations.
Claire Kearns-McCoy
Claire Kearns-McCoy is an engineer at Clean Energy Associates (CEA). At CEA, she is the area head for field testing services, a service that assesses solar technology at project sites to find defects or causes of underperformance.
Sarah Busch
Sarah Busch, Manager of Market Development at the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA), advocates for energy storage to become a mainstream part of California’s energy toolkit to achieve climate reduction goals, increase deployment of clean energy, and support a healthy grid for the benefit of all Californians.
Sammy Reifer
Samantha Reifer has managed Colorado state initiatives in the industrial, cannabis, and micro-hydro spaces, and has supported the State in CPUC proceedings. She is currently working on the Business Development team at Scale Microgrid Solutions.
Jhi-Young Joo
Dr. Jhi-Young Joo is Distribution Automation Lead Engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, specializing in power systems engineering. Her research interests are in secure and resilient integration of distributed energy resource technologies such as solar photovoltaic generation, demand response, plug-in electric vehicles, etc. into the legacy power grid. She is especially interested in coordination and co-optimization of diverse resources within the power grid and their cybersecurity impacts.
Heidi Lim
Heidi is working to accelerate carbon dioxide removal, an urgently necessary pathway to a sustainable planet. She is an environmental engineer with experience in start-up business development, clean tech, product management, data management, software development, photography, and design.
Kristian Hanelt
Kristian is a veteran renewable energy professional with 15 years of energy project finance experience. From 2011 to 2015 he served as Senior Vice President of Clean Power Finance where he built and led the Renewables Capital Markets Group to over $1 billion in capital raised for residential solar systems.
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