Nick Tumilowicz leads Itron's Distributed Energy Management business unit, accountable for global product development of Demand Response, DER, EV, and Forecasting solutions enabling access to flexible customer energy resources. Nick holds a variety of positions on advisory councils: Department of Energy (NREL, Building Technologies Office, Solar Energy Technologies Office), Department of Defense (Naval Research Laboratory), General Services Administration, California Energy Commission, Grid Forward Leadership Committee, Incubate Energy Labs, Saudi Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnecting Authority.
For decades, utilities have measured grid investment largely by what could be seen and built: transmission lines, substations, transformers and power plants. Those assets remain essential, and utilities will continue to need more of them. But as demand grows and…
