How Smart Utilities are Using IoT to Enable Smart Cities and Plan for a Sustainable Future

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Curt Kirkeby is responsible for applied smart grid R&D. Currently the principal investigator for the Pullman Energy Storage Project, a 1.0MW/3.6MWh vanadium flow battery project in Pullman, WA funded by the Washington State Department of Commerce. Responsible for Design Thinking applied within the Innovation Station Workgroup. R&D efforts include opportunities for electrification, sensors of many types, distributed energy resource management, and smart city solutions.

Renee is a member of the Technology Innovation team at Southern California Edison. She is responsible for 1) engaging with national labs, universities, and utility vendors to communicate future system needs; 2) track emerging utility technology trends; and 3) evaluate promising solutions for meeting SCE’s decarbonization goals while pursuing her passion to develop and deploy a systems engineering approach to modernize the SCE grid. Renee is the Founder and Chair of the IEEE PES SBLC Multi-Energy Systems Working Group. She was previously employed by Ford Motor Company where she worked as an Electrical Systems Engineer for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and by Saddleback College as Adjunct Faculty in the Applied Technology & Applied Sciences department. She completed her BSEE, with honors, from University of California, Riverside in 2002 and MS in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from University of California, Irvine in 2014.

Pete is the Manager of New Products and Services for Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC). He launches new strategic programs and initiatives that may result in new product and services for OUC.  OUC is a vertically integrated Municipality that serves Electricity and Water to Orlando, parts of Orange and Osceola counties.  Pete is the Program Manager for Smart Cities initiatives and Beneficial Electrification including transportation.   Pete serves as the chairperson for the Transportation Committee for Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA), and serves on the local chapter board for USGBC Central Florida. Pete has extensive experience in project management in all forms of project delivery. His experience covers a wide variety of industries and primarily in technology with project and program management. Pete is Black Belt trained in six sigma and has experience with large complex process improvement and management. Pete holds a Bachelors of Computer Science and a Master of Arts in Human Resource Organizational Development.