The Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) is led by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) staff from the Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO), Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), and multiple national laboratories. Together, the team’s experience spans nearly all aspects of interconnection from residential to bulk power, utility to developer, and policy to engineering.
DOE Leadership
SETO: Michele Boyd, Dexter Hendricks, Ammar Qusaibaty
WETO: Jian Fu, Bret Barker, Cynthia Bothwell
Grid Deployment Office: Avi Gopstein, Ariel Horowitz
Office of Electricity: Chris Irwin
Vehicle Technologies Office: Fernando Salcedo
Joint Office of Energy and Transportation: Sejal Shah
National Laboratory Co-Leadership
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL): Lara Aston, Diane Baldwin
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL): Matt Reno, Mike Ropp
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL): Jeff Cook, Robert Margolis
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL): Will Gorman, Joseph Rand
Collaborators
PNNL: Karyn Boenker, Jason Eisdorfer, Frank Tuffner, Todd Wall
SNL: Joseph Azzolini, Rashid Darbali-Zamora
NREL: Killian McKenna
LBNL: Julie Mulvaney-Kemp, Ryan Wiser
Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG): Julia Matevosyan
Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA): Garrett Fitzgerald