i2X Leadership Team

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