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Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) announced today that Dr. Julia Matevosyan has been appointed as Associate Director, in addition to her current title of Chief Engineer. Matevosyan assumes the role after three years as the organization’s Chief Engineer, during which time she grew ESIG’s work on grid-forming inverter-based resources, stability phenomena, and system services.  In…

    Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) announced today that Dr. Debra Lew has been appointed as Executive Director. Lew assumes the role after serving as the organization’s Associate Director for almost four years.  Charlie Smith, who has served as the organization’s Executive Director since its creation in 1989, will continue to serve ESIG half-time…

Charlie Smith Lifetime Excellence Award honors Smith’s nearly 55 years of dedication to the renewable energy industry   The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG), the leading source of global expertise for energy systems integration and operations, has renamed its Lifetime Excellence Award to honor long-time Executive Director Charlie Smith.  The Charlie Smith Lifetime Excellence Award…

Yesterday, the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG), the leading source of global expertise for energy systems integration and operations, announced the recipients of its 2024 Excellence Awards. These awards recognize energy professionals from around the world for their contributions and accomplishments toward the planning and operation of energy systems across multiple pathways and geographical scales…

Reston, Va. – The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG), the leading source of global expertise for energy systems integration and operations, announced today that Matthew Schuerger has been named Senior Fellow. He joins ESIG with more than 35 years of experience in the power industry. For the eight years prior to joining ESIG, Schuerger was…

The Energy Systems Integration Group will conduct an annual meeting of the membership, to be held at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, AZ. The meeting will take place during the Spring Technical Workshop and will be held from 12:00 p.m. to 12:20 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. The agenda for the meeting…

  Reston, Va. – Marcus Schriner, Wind Operations Supervisor with DTE Energy been awarded the 2023 Ross Newlin Achievement Award, given by the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) for his ongoing contributions in leading advancement efforts of the technical and operations sectors of the renewable energy industry. Named for wind industry pioneer Ross Newlin, the…

  Reston, Va. – The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG), the leading source of global expertise for energy systems integration and operations, announced today that James Okullo has been named Director of System Planning. He joins ESIG with more than a decade of experience in the power industry. Prior to joining ESIG, Okullo was Manager,…

  March 29, 2023 – The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG), a nonprofit organization that marshals the expertise of the electricity industry’s technical community to support grid transformation and energy systems integration, recently announced the recipients of its 2023 Excellence Awards. These awards recognize energy professionals from around the world for their contributions and accomplishments…

The Energy Systems Integration Group will conduct an annual meeting of the membership, to be held at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, AZ. The meeting will take place during the Spring Technical Workshop and will be held from 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The agenda for the meeting…