Leadership
Executive Director
@ Microgrid Resources Coalition
Executive Director
@ Microgrid Resources Coalition
Pierson Stoecklein is Executive Director of the Microgrid Resources Coalition (MRC). Previously, he was Head of Policy & Regulatory Counsel at Mainspring Energy, Inc, which manufactures clean, commercial-scale, distributed linear generator technology. Pierson has more than fifteen years of experience advising companies in the energy and transportation sectors on complex legal, public policy, and regulatory matters. He began working in public service advising a senior member of the U.S. Senate on issues related to renewable energy project development and siting on public lands. Pierson later held policy and legal roles at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he co-led a comprehensive revision of policies governing merchant transmission development and renewable electricity generator interconnection access.
Pierson has also worked in private legal practice at international law firms Steptoe & Johnson and Kirkland & Ellis, where he advised a broad range of energy industry clients on transactional, regulatory and corporate matters.Pierson has a Juris Doctor from the University of Oregon School of Law and was a third-year visiting student at George Washington University Law School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Ethics & Public Policy from Colgate University.
Chair
Director of Government & Regulatory Affairs
@ ENGIE North America
Chair
Director of Government & Regulatory Affairs
@ ENGIE North America
Vice Chair
Senior Director, State Government Relations
@ Schneider Electric North America
Vice 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.
Secretary
Senior Policy Manager, West
@ Mainspring Energy
Secretary
Senior Policy Manager, West
@ Mainspring Energy
Serj Berelson is the Senior Manager of Policy, West for Mainspring. In over a decade building his career in the energy industry, in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, Serj has worked on a range of key energy issues, including energy efficiency with a focus on equity program (e.g. limited-income), demand response, energy storage, and other distributed energy resources. During this time he developed a knack for ensuring innovative energy technologies gain full value in regulated markets.
Most recently, Serj spent more than two years as the California Efficiency + Demand Management Council's Director of Policy & Strategy, leading regulatory and legislative advocacy efforts for energy efficiency and distributed energy resources in regulatory and legislative arenas. Prior to that, Serj was the Manager of Energy Regulatory Affairs in the Western United States for Google Nest’s thermostat and Google Home products, with a particular focus on limited-income programs. Before that he worked on residential energy storage policy across North America as the Manager, Regulatory Strategy for Sunverge. He spent five years at Opower, leading the expansion of the company’s Home Energy Reports into low-income programs throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as developing policy around novel behavioral demand response programs in California. Serj began his career at the California Public Utilities Commission as a Graduate Student Assistant, authoring a white paper on reducing medium-term transportation carbon emissions while learning the complexities of effective energy regulation. Serj received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Environmental Economics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Treasurer
President
@ The Energy Coalition
Treasurer
President
@ The Energy Coalition
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
Executive Director, Campus Energy & Engineering
@ Princeton University
Executive Director, Campus Energy & Engineering
@ Princeton University
Tom is the Executive Director of Princeton University’s Facilities Engineering. The department is responsible for engineering and project management for many types of work on campus. This work includes HVAC, electrical distribution, utility plant capacity additions, and underground utilities. He also supervises the central CHP plant and microgrid operations, campus building HVAC control operation, and is a member of the Princeton Sustainability Committee. His group also reviews the building infrastructure designs for all new and renovated campus buildings. In 2003, Tom was instrumental in adapting equipment market dispatch for the CHP and chilled water plants when New Jersey switched power purchasing to the real-time market within PJM.
Tom has both a bachelor and master degree in mechanical engineering. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and has a professional engineering license in NJ and Pennsylvania. Tom has worked at Princeton in the Engineering department for 36 years. Before Princeton, he worked in the consulting engineering business designing HVAC systems, and for United Technologies designing fuel cell power plants. He is a board member of the International District Energy Association.
Director, Special Projects
@ Scale Microgrid Solutions, LLC
Director, Special Projects
@ Scale Microgrid Solutions, LLC
Director
@ Western CHP Technical Assistance Partnership US Department of Energy
Director
@ Western CHP Technical Assistance Partnership US Department of Energy
Carol Denning is the Director for the US DOE Western CHP Technical Assistance Partnership and Director of Energy Reliability and Resilience for the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE) where she drives adoption of distributed energy resources including CHP Microgrids across a portfolio of DOE and CSE projects. She brings over three decades experience in advanced energy services, designing, developing onsite generation, CHP, District Energy and Microgrid projects for clients across the United States.
Partner
@ Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Partner
@ Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Christopher Berendt is an energy and environmental market transactional and regulatory attorney. Pioneering clients come to Chris for advanced transactions, including the development and finance of microgrids, renewable energy, cogeneration, biorefineries, carbon reduction projects, and dynamic energy and environmental commodity procurements. With more than 25 years of experience, including on Capitol Hill and as a corporate vice president in the energy sector, Chris has in-depth knowledge of the design and operation of the energy and environmental markets. Chris has long worked the nexus of energy, environmental markets, climate change and sustainability. He regularly represents clients transacting in markets he helped design and counsels on corporate carbon/ESG program planning, development and implementation, including product and service carbon claim design and substantiation, related-asset acquisition, divestiture and repositioning and carbon offset/credit procurement. Over the years, Chris has advised many policy-makers on energy and environmental market design and operation, including being called to testify before the U.S. Senate.
