Speakers

Since July 2018, Dr. Michael Stadler has been the Chief Technology Officer of the San Diego based XENDEE Corporation, which he co-founded. In this position he successfully commercialized Microgrid and renewable design methodologies from the DOE Lab environment to the industry. In this endeavor he and his team also received the prestigious Edison Gold Award in 2021. From March 2017 to December 2018, he was the area head of the Microgrid and Smartgrid department at BEST/Bioenergy2020+ and responsible for the successful establishment of the Smartgrid and Microgrid research area that focuses on research that will be used and commercialized by industry partners. He was also leading the design, implementation, and operation of the first Austrian Microgrid testbed, which also serves as industry and commercialization hub for Microgrid technologies. Before that Michael Stadler had been a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California and leading the Grid Integration Group. He is a recipient of the PECASE Award of the White House. Michael also led the Microgrid team and Distributed Energy Resources team at Berkeley Lab and was the lead developer of DER-CAM from 2008 to early 2017. Michael has published more than 250 papers, journal papers, and reports to date and holds 15 copyrights/patents. Michael holds a Ph.D summa cum laude in Energy Economics and a summa cum laude M.S. in electrical engineering.