Chad Abbey Vice President, Advanced Technology Integration

Chad Abbey, PhD, Vice President of Advanced Technology Integration, is a recognized expert with over twenty years of industry experience in grid modernization, utility operations, and renewable-energy and energy-storage integration. He has helped utilities and developers navigate the distributed generation (DG) interconnection process, deploy innovative solutions to accelerate and reduce the cost of DG interconnection, and implement next-generation distribution system operations applications. These projects have included the design, specification, and subsequent deployment of distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS), advanced distribution management systems (ADMS) applications, and laboratory testing using real-time simulation of emerging distribution architectures and technologies, including high-penetration DER control, OpenFMB, microgrids, and hierarchical control architectures. Chad has extensive experience with power systems analysis tools such as CYMDIST, Synergi, OpenDSS, EMTP-RV, and OPAL-RT. He has also worked extensively with AVEVA PI and the development of data analytics for use with tracking performance and optimizing operational systems.