Senior Technical Leader
CurrentEPRI research area P174, DER Integration.This program addresses the challenges faced by utilities with the integration of distributed solar, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other distributed energy resources (DER). It covers the range of issues from updating technical interconnection requirements to assessing hosting capacity; handling and screening interconnection requests; grounding, protection and metering; modeling and analyzing grid impacts; choosing grid-support functions and settings; applying DER monitoring and control systems (DERMS); and design of utility and community microgrids. The economic opportunities and challenges of providing reliable service with increasing DER levels via NWA's and flexible interconnection are also addressed.