Leadership
Chair
Senior Director, State Government Relations
@ Schneider Electric North America
Chair
Senior Director, State Government Relations
@ Schneider Electric North America
Jeff Morris joined Schneider Electric North America in 2019 and is Senior Director of State Government Relations. Prior to that, Jeff worked in cleantech commercialization through his own business, Energy Horizon Corporation, as Director of Northwest Energy Technology Collaborative, and 23 years as a Washington State Representative. He recently completed six years as a USDOE OE Electricity Advisor and is an Associate member of the Gridwise Architect Council. While a legislator, he was named one of the most Tech Savvy Legislators in the United States by Governing Magazine, was Chair or Leader in several legislative associations and his public/private energy policy work recognized by the Canadian Government. Morris co-founded the Northwest Energy Angels now called Element 8 in 2005 and created the Legislative Energy Horizon Institute that has trained over 300 state and local policymakers in Energy 101.
Vice Chair
Government and Regulatory Affairs Director
@ ENGIE NA
Vice Chair
Government and Regulatory Affairs Director
@ ENGIE NA
Ms Chamberlin brings more than 20 years of expert competitive market and policy advocacy ENGIE. Ms Chamberlin has extensive experience advocating for, developing, and analyzing market rules and procurement policy across the competitive energy industry. Her career has had a focus on the market rules surrounding renewable energy, demand side resources and retail access marketplaces throughout the US.
Prior joining ENGIE, Ms Chamberlin served the Executive Director of Market Development and Regulatory Affairs for CPower, the Director of Regulatory Affairs for Johnson Controls Integrated Demand Resources business unit, as the principal of Energy Policy Advocates, Director of Regulatory and Legislative Policy for LS Power Development, Manager of Regulatory and Government Affairs for Strategic Energy and Direct Energy, Manager of Regulatory Affairs for Chevron Energy Solutions, and Manager of Market Development for PG&E Energy Services. She was previously a consultant with Barakat and Chamberlin.
Treasurer
President
@ The Energy Coalition
Treasurer
President
@ The Energy Coalition
Secretary
Manager, Grid Services Policy
@ Sunnova
Secretary
Manager, Grid Services Policy
@ Sunnova
Jamie Charles is the Manager for Grid Services Policy at Sunnova Energy Corporation, a leading residential solar and storage services provider. In this role, he advocates and works with industry leaders and state policymakers for legislative and regulatory policies that allow for the expansion and creation of solar + storage programs, virtual power plants, and microgrids. Jamie’s ability to leverage his knowledge and experience from multiple trade associations and state policy engagements gives him a unique ability to apply best practices and lessons learned in multiple markets.
Prior to joining Sunnova, Jamie worked for National Grid where he provided program management through their distributed generation interconnection process. During his time at National Grid, Jamie lead process improvements, reporting, and coordination with regulatory agencies and external partners, to grow distributed energy development within National Grid’s service territory. Jamie has previous experience managing and implementing policies alongside the federal government where he developed strong stakeholder engagement and government policy competencies. He got his Political Science degree from Washington State University and his Master of Science from University of Denver.
Founder & Chief Technical Officer
@ Icetec Energy Services
Founder & Chief Technical Officer
@ Icetec Energy Services
Mike is the Founder and Chief Technical Officer at ICETEC. Mike has over twenty years of control systems experience. He has worked for Westinghouse and Trane before started Webster Controls in 1988. As the deregulated energy market emerged, Mike formed ICETEC in 2000 to support his customers in managing their sizable energy purchasing budgets in a more cost effective manner coupled with risk reduction methodology. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University.
Vice President
@ Bloom Energy
Vice President
@ Bloom Energy
Co-founder and Chief Executive/Product Officer
@ Dynamic Grid
Co-founder and Chief Executive/Product Officer
@ Dynamic Grid
Kay Aikin is the co-founder and Chief Executive/Product Officer of Dynamic Grid, an energy software company based in Portland, Maine. She is a Pennsylvania State University graduate with a degree in energy/sustainability engineering.
Over the last few years working with partner Dr. Caryl Johnson, they studied the application of Machine Learning and complex systems to integrate Distributed Energy Resources into the electrical grid as an expansion of her experience in sustainable building and technologies.
Kay is a recognized Transactive Energy expert and a regular speaker at conferences on this topic and distributed intelligence in the electrical grid. She is on the Board of the Grid Wise Architecture Council (GWAC), one of 13 members setting the overall direction for the Department of Energy in grid modernization and smart grids. She is also a member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society, Women in Engineering, and Smart Electric Power Alliance. She actively participates in SEPA’s Transactive Energy Working Group, Microgrids, and the Grid Edge group for the Interstate Renewable Energy Council.
Working through her positions at the Grid Wise Architecture Council and the Smart Electric Power Alliance, she focuses on regulation, policy, standards development, and local New England/Maine organizations. She has framed the discussion of electrical grid restructuring into the future Distributed, Decentralized, and Decarbonized electrical grid (D3). In these roles, the idea of a prosumer-focused and cyber-secure grid that supports superior privacy protections for the consumer is gaining traction. She works with a group of other thought leaders who believe that the grid’s system architecture needs to support the most significant stakeholder, the consumer.
Head of Global Policy & Regulatory Affairs
@ Mainspring
Head of Global Policy & Regulatory Affairs
@ Mainspring
Craig Gordon has over two decades of power industry experience across diverse areas within the utility and clean energy sectors. His experience spans power trading, power plant dispatch, renewable energy origination, policy advocacy, and government relations. Craig joined Mainspring Energy in 2022 after spending a dozen years at Invenergy in Chicago where he held senior leadership roles in sales and marketing and state and federal policy. Prior to joining Invenergy, he spent eight years working for multiple divisions at Ameren in St. Louis.
Currently, Craig leads Mainsprings Public Affairs team which encompasses state and federal energy policy, public-private partnerships, and wholesale power market policy.
MRC Senior Advisor - Western U.S.
MRC Senior Advisor - Western U.S.
Allie Detrio is the Senior Advisor for the Microgrid Resources Coalition, where she is responsible for leading microgrid industry advocacy efforts in the West. Allie is the Chief Strategist for Reimagine Power, a boutique microgrid and cleantech policy consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco with a diverse portfolio of clients and projects. Allie has authored numerous publications and regularly delivers presentations on microgrid policy. She serves as an expert witness at Public Utilities Commissions and State Legislatures on a variety of microgrid, DER, and community resiliency issues.
Allie is an award-winning advocate for her leadership in passing notable energy legislation to commercialize the microgrid market in California (SB 1339) and expand the state’s energy storage incentive program authorizing $800M in new funding (SB 700) in 2018. More recently, she has worked to secure millions in funding for DERs to provide reliability services in California (AB 205), expand the bioenergy market to CCAs (AB 843), and defeated legislative proposals that would have adversely impacted community microgrids (AB 2667) and multifamily solar development (SB 1385).
Allie is also an active participant in numerous regulatory proceedings on behalf of the MRC and other clean energy clients, including microgrids and resiliency (R.19-09-009), grid of the future (R.21-06-017), demand flexibility (R.22-07-005), net metering (R.20-08-020), SGIP (R.20-05-012), and other DER regulatory matters in CA and the west.
She currently serves as a Board Member and the Electricity Committee Chair for the Bioenergy Association of California, is an active member of the California Solar & Storage Association, California Energy Storage Alliance, California Alliance for Community Energy, and supports other notable environmental organizations.
Prior to Reimagine Power, Allie was the Manager of Policy & Strategy at ENGIE, a global microgrid developer and one of the largest providers of energy services in the world. She has more than 15 years of experience working in clean energy and sustainability holding a variety of positions in government & regulatory affairs, business and project development, and market research.
Allie was one of the first in the world to receive an accredited B.S. in Sustainability from the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, and has minors in Economics, History and Philosophy.
MRC Legal Counsel
MRC Legal Counsel
Baird Brown is the principal of eco(n)law. His practice is devoted to taking effective action on climate change and on issues of energy and environmental justice. He assists in the development of innovative programs and strategies for widespread adoption of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other sustainable technologies. He has helped develop pooled procurement and financing techniques for energy efficiency and renewable energy and has structured public private partnerships for a broad array of infrastructure projects. Baird also advises on energy policy issues and represents clients before energy regulatory agencies. He helped form and serves as counsel to the Microgrid Resources Coalition.
Baird has formed and advised benefit corporations and nonprofit organizations in addition to traditional enterprises, and he develops tax structures and regulatory strategies for projects. He counsels clients in connection with taxable and tax-exempt, rated and unrated, and registered and unregistered financings and credit arrangements. He understands the risks and obligations appropriate to public and private parties and structures incentive compensation arrangements that align private incentives with public goals. He has assisted in the development of energy and environmental markets. He represents clients with strong environmental goals in practical transactions that create clean energy results.
Baird has played key roles in organizations that advance energy and sustainability goals. He served as a co-chair of energy related committees of the American Bar Association (ABA) and the International Bar Association, and he was a principal author of the form Renewable Energy Credit Purchase Agreement for the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), the Energy Markets Association, and ABA. He serves on the boards of non-profit organizations that work for community revitalization and energy justice.
Baird received a B.A. in Economics from S.U.N.Y at Buffalo and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He began his legal career in the Office of the General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board.
