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EPRI

Independent nonprofit R&D consortium for electricity

Technical Advisor 3

Full-TimePosted on 10/20/2026
No salary listed
Expert
Bachelor's
Florida, USA
In PersonFlorida Home Office; approximately 50% travel.
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in a technical discipline is required.
  • A minimum of seven years of experience selling complex technical solutions is required.
  • A solid understanding of account management and sales practices and principles, including the ability to drive the sales process from needs assessment through close, is required.
  • The ability to engage effectively at all levels within client organizations is required.
  • A broad understanding of the energy industry and specific expertise in the assigned sector are required.
  • Demonstrated technical proficiency in the assigned sector is required.
  • Effective presentation development and delivery skills are required.
  • Strong computer skills, including proficiency with the full Microsoft Office Suite, are required.
  • The ability to multitask and work under pressure is required.
  • The ability to work toward common goals in a team atmosphere and influence members of a cross-functional team to implement a shared business strategy is required.
  • Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills are required.
  • Willingness to travel approximately 50% of the time is required.
Responsibilities
  • Establish relationships at appropriate decision-making levels within assigned accounts; make general and specific sales calls and presentations to broaden client engagement; and understand clients’ strategic issues, business objectives, needs, and processes to drive revenue growth.
  • Identify existing EPRI products and solutions that can meet or exceed client needs.
  • Manage client engagement through sales close and coordinate internal cross-functional support as needed.
  • Maintain sufficiently deep technical knowledge of the sector research and development portfolio to represent the value proposition of technical programs, projects, and products to clients.
  • Provide technical support and training to other members of the sector sales team as needed.
  • Develop, scope, and launch key supplemental projects.
  • Capture client, market, and product feedback to support and influence future EPRI product development.
  • Work with program managers and marketing staff to shape the annual research and development portfolio.
  • Capture and communicate value throughout the year to document impacts and benefits for assigned clients.
  • Work closely with technical staff and build relationships with appropriate internal stakeholders.
  • Track and manage the opportunity funnel in the client relationship management tool.
  • Develop and cultivate relationships with client end users to facilitate technology transfer and support implementation or application of relevant EPRI results.
  • Collaborate across other EPRI research and development sector programs and cross-sell relevant research.
  • Promote implementation and broad acceptance of EPRI tools and results across client organizations.
  • Assist in conducting member satisfaction surveys, analyze and summarize member feedback, and recommend improvements to the member experience.
Desired Qualifications
  • An engineering degree is preferred.
  • An advanced degree, professional engineering license, or equivalent experience is preferred.
  • Fifteen years of experience in the electric utility or a similar industry is desired.

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EPRI conducts objective scientific research on the electric power system, covering generation, transmission, and distribution to improve reliability, safety, and environmental performance. It funds and runs large R&D programs through member dues, tests technologies, analyzes data, and publishes guidelines and tools for utilities and regulators. It differs from competitors by being a member-owned, independent, non-profit consortium that pools resources from many utilities rather than a for-profit firm or single-company lab. Its goal is to provide foundational R&D that helps make the electric grid more reliable, safer, and cleaner for utilities, regulators, and the public.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Grant

Total Funding

$22.7M

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

1973

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What believers are saying

  • More than 50 organizations backed Flex MOSAIC by May 2026, accelerating adoption.
  • SAFERai.power launched with Microsoft, NVIDIA, NERC, and major utilities in 2026.
  • NYPA, Exelon, and Consolidated Edison leadership on EPRI's 2026 board strengthens commercial pull.

What critics are saying

  • MISO, NERC, Google, and Meta can standardize flexibility without EPRI owning the market.
  • Utilities still treat microgrids as one-offs; PNM said each project needs longer, custom interconnection.
  • If members stop funding dues, EPRI loses its collaborative research engine and industry relevance.

What makes EPRI unique

  • EPRI's March 2026 Flex MOSAIC set the utility language for flexible data-center loads.
  • EPRI's August 2026 NYPA-NC State SST trial proved megawatt-class hardware on a live feeder.
  • EPRI's September 2026 FURESHMA deal with Birmingham anchors fusion materials research and open data.

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  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays
  • Parental Leave

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Yahoo
Sep 23rd, 2026
Microgrids must push beyond pilots, into everyday grid operations: panel.

Microgrids must push beyond pilots, into everyday grid operations: panel. Marlene Wilden Wed, September 23, 2026 at 8:33 AM PDT Dive brief: * Microgrids can provide more than backup power, additionally using their distributed energy resources to help utilities manage peak events and voltage issues during normal grid operations, Jackie Baum, senior team lead for DER Integration at the Electric Power Research Institute, told an audience at the Building an Advanced Energy Ecosystem Conference in Albuquerque last week. * Data centers with loads above 50 MW are driving an increase in the typical size of microgrids, Baum said, with some projects large enough to require a transmission connection. Baum told Utility Dive that the resources supporting those sites could help smooth their power consumption. * Making microgrids part of the everyday power system will require utilities and vendors to stop treating each project as a custom one-off. The longer-term shift could be toward microgrids and DERs becoming trusted components of distribution operations, supported by repeatable systems and planning tools that utilities can confidently plug into routine grid operations and use to support large loads, experts at the BAEE conference said. Dive insight: Baum described DERs as resources typically operating below 69 kV, including behind-the-meter solar and storage, as well as utility-owned or operator-owned generation sited locally. She cited the U.S. Department of Energy's technical term for a microgrid, which has "clearly defined electrical boundaries" and acts as a single controllable entity, either connected to or islanded from the larger grid - a distinction that becomes increasingly important as microgrids expand into larger, more complex applications. The challenge, Baum said, is making microgrids predictable enough for utilities to rely on, including when resources will be available and how they will affect the broader system. Jon Hawkins, associate director of grid modernization at Public Service Co. of New Mexico, or PNM, described how the utility is trying to fit microgrids into a framework built around uniformity. "If you've seen one microgrid, you've seen one microgrid," Hawkins said, noting that every project comes with a different mix of loads, generation and controls and that, unlike solar or storage, "we don't have those same standardizations in the microgrid world yet, so while [PNM] supports it, it's also a longer, more involved process as we get people to try to interconnect to the grid." To move from pilots to product-like systems, Sandia National Laboratories is building four scenario-based grid engineering facilities to test power electronics, controls, storage and inverters before they are deployed in the field. Stan Atcitty, senior scientist and power electronics lead at Sandia, said that as the labs come online researchers plan to "slam" commercial equipment with faults, cyberattacks and stressed operating conditions so utilities and developers can rely on trusted models and hardened designs, a step panelists said is essential to make microgrids less risky. PNM, as New Mexico's balancing authority, has about 40 MW of leeway under its balancing requirements, while some proposed data centers could reach 300 MW, making sudden changes in net load a potential frequency and stability concern, according to Hawkins. "EPRI is [also] working on these areas through [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers] standards development, running collaborative industry forums to identify ongoing challenges in the field and collect best practices, and publishing those effective strategies and methodologies for modeling, testing and commissioning microgrids," Baum told Utility Dive. Project economics increasingly hinge on how much value microgrids can provide beyond backup. Panelists cited value stacking, using DERs for backup and everyday grid services, and state interconnection policies as drivers of lower net costs. Kit Carson Electric Cooperative CEO Luis Reyes said his rural co-op is working on five microgrids, including battery-based systems and a clean hydrogen project. He pointed to a seven-day natural gas outage in 2011 that left communities in New Mexico without service during a severe cold snap. Reyes told attendees residents believed the region had been "sacrificed" to keep gas flowing for the Super Bowl in Dallas, though a subsequent New Mexico Public Regulation Commission investigation attributed the emergency to rolling electrical blackouts and frozen equipment rather than intentional curtailment for the event. The experience underscored the value of local energy resources for the co-op. "As you start looking at how we maintain or keep our quality of life... [it] is by localized infrastructure," Reyes said. Recommended Reading

American Nuclear Society
Sep 16th, 2026
Three U.S.-U.K. partnerships accelerating fusion commercialization.

Three U.S.-U.K. partnerships accelerating fusion commercialization. Joint declaration of intent signing with, from left, Matthew Lanctot, Steven Cowley, Tim Bestwick, and David Capper. (Photo: UKAEA) At the start of U.K. Fusion Week on Monday, three partnerships were announced that bring together fusion energy research and development efforts across the United States and the United Kingdom. State partnership: Tennessee and the U.K. announced a strengthened partnership to explore cooperation research, supply chains, regulation, and other activities supporting the development of fusion energy. According to the Tennessee Valley Authority, this collaboration builds on the U.K. Infinity Fusion Consortium, a partnership between Tennessee-based Type One Energy, U.K.-based Tokamak Energy, and Texas-based AECOM that was announced in May. "Fusion is moving out of the laboratory and into the market, and Tennessee is ready-made to lead the way," said Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee. "Our strong supply chains, skilled workforce, reliable regulatory framework, and partnerships with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority position our state to make commercial fusion a reality. We look forward to strengthening our partnership with the United Kingdom to bring this clean, abundant source of energy to market faster." The partners will explore strengthening fusion supply chains and advanced manufacturing, development of the fusion fuel cycle, scientific and technical exchange among participating facilities, engagement among industrial partners on commercial grid connection, workforce development, licensing and safety frameworks, and joint conferences that support global fusion sector growth. "This powerful, bilateral, public-private partnership weaves together the essential threads of the fusion value chain," said Type One CEO Christofer Mowry. Multiplying resources: The U.K. Atomic Energy Authority and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have signed a joint declaration of intent to explore linking two new computing systems to allow fusion researchers to share resources and optimize computing methods, aiming to speed up fusion energy research. In January, PPPL announced Simulation, Technology and Experiment Leveraging Learning-Accelerated Research (STELLAR-AI), an integrated system of central processing units, graphics processing units, and quantum processing units in a configuration specifically designed for fusion research. The U.K. government announced in March that it would be funding a fusion-focused supercomputer named Sunrise at the UKAEA. Since the institutions are exploring the same fusion approach - the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade at PPPL and the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade at UKAEA are both spherical tokamaks - researchers would benefit from sharing experimental data for training AI, for which quantity and quality of data is a critical component of model development. "Our goal is to let models and experiments move freely between the two systems," said Shantenu Jha, head of computational sciences at PPPL. "We will turn a collection of supercomputers into a single engine for fusion discovery." PPPL and the UKAEA conducted a workshop to lay out the steps a federation would require. Those include building a shared data pipeline, joint digital twin development, and a framework for moving computing jobs between platforms so researchers can run their models on the machine best suited for the task. Research to grid: The University of Birmingham in England and the Electric Power Research Institute have announced a collaboration to develop fusion energy technologies though the university's FURESHMA (Fusion Reactor Shielding Materials) program, which aims to test boride and carbide shielding materials for use in a fusion power plant. According to the university, the collaboration will support technology transfer and accelerate the path from laboratory discoveries to real-world energy applications. "Through FURESHMA, EPRI and the University of Birmingham can connect advanced materials research with the needs of future plant developers and operators, strengthen international knowledge exchange, and help establish a sound technical foundation for fusion deployment," said Steve Chengelis, EPRI vice president for nuclear development and fusion. Data generated through the project will be made openly available. EPRI had an existing relationship with the university, including funding a studentship on vanadium alloy welds for fusion through the FURESHMA program.

Utility Dive
Sep 15th, 2026
Change 4 mindsets to build a more resilient US grid: NERC CEO Jim Robb.

Change 4 mindsets to build a more resilient US grid: NERC CEO Jim Robb. While the challenges of building new power infrastructure are real, some of the obstacles that need to be overcome are self-limitations embedded in a deeply rooted mindset, writes Robb. Published Sept. 15, 2026 By Jim Robb Jim Robb is president and CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corp., and chairs the Group of Experts on Cleaner Electricity Systems at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. The world is on the cusp of an amazing transition to one enabled and fueled by artificial intelligence. The United States is poised to lead this revolution on every dimension except one: electric power. And that gap should concern every American. The U.S. has not demonstrated the ability to construct new electric infrastructure at a pace that can keep up with projected demand growth for data centers, electrification policies, demographic changes and industrial growth. The need for electric power infrastructure focuses attention on the five-alarm fire that was already burning due to lack of infrastructure investment and the disorderly transformation of the electric grid. Electricity isn't an energy source; it's a delivery mechanism. Energy has its roots in fuel, whether fossil fuel, wind, sunshine, water or nuclear particles. The beauty of electricity is its fungibility across those fuels. From an end-user perspective, a kilowatt hour is a kilowatt hour, irrespective of where or how it was generated. Electricity represents a bit less than 20% of end-use energy consumption today but it is bound to increase. Electrification of transportation, heating and certain industrial processes will continue to add to the strain on the electric grid and must be coupled with policies that promote the development of a robust and affordable electric grid and the necessary fuel infrastructure to support. While the physical challenges of building new infrastructure are real (for example, there is only so much manufacturing capacity to build power generation turbines and it can only be scaled up so quickly), some of the obstacles that need to be overcome are self-limitations embedded in a deeply rooted mindset formed over the past 30 years. To conquer this challenge, Utility Dive must urgently shift some of its traditional mindsets: Siting and permitting should enable responsible development. The U.S. has been adept at limiting the growth in power demand through energy efficiency programs and the natural turnover of appliances to more energy efficient designs. As a result, Utility Dive built very few large infrastructure projects and developed rigorous approval processes to ensure that only the "best" projects were built. In a new era of unprecedented demand for electricity and related consequences for national security and global leadership, societal mindsets must shift to getting more energy responsibly on the grid as quickly as possible. Utility Dive must resist the urge to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Load needs to be an active part of the electric system. The electric sector has largely treated demand as an exogenous variable, save for a handful of demand response programs that paid large consumers to reduce their consumption when the system gets tight. With the proliferation of exceptionally large data centers with energy needs comparable to those of large cities, its electric reliability framework needs to evolve to account for their operational performance. For example, the AI revolution cannot occur unless data centers are good citizens of the grid. Many are working on this. For example, the North American Electric Reliability Corp., the country's electric reliability organization that oversees the bulk power system, is working at breakneck pace to figure out the criteria for identifying the most consequential large computational loads and the appropriate performance requirements to ensure continued reliable operation of the grid. The Electric Power Research Institute is developing a standardized load-flexibility framework, called Flex MOSAIC, to bring some degree of consistency in the ability to curtail the energy use of large loads when needed for grid reliability. A reliable, resilient grid will be based on a mix of technologies. Every year, it seems, there is new analysis on the levelized cost of energy from various power generation technologies, and policymakers in many areas choose to focus on the development of the lowest cost resources, currently solar and batteries. However, the cost of reliably integrating these inexpensive technologies goes far beyond the resource selection. All generating resources and fuel types have positives and negatives associated with them. For instance, while solar and batteries are inexpensive and easily procured, solar requires sunshine that is not consistently available, and storage relies on charging during periods of energy surplus. These resources are exceptional technologies in sunny parts of the country and in the summer, but they struggle to make meaningful reliability contributions in cloudier parts of the country and to serve electric peaks in the winter (which typically occur before the sun rises and after the sun sets). Similarly, natural gas generation provides extraordinary flexibility for balancing variable production generation like wind and solar but gas delivery for power generation can be curtailed under tight conditions. Hydroelectric production depends on rainfall, nuclear plants need to be refueled, coal piles can freeze and the wind doesn't always blow. And so on...

FinancialContent
Sep 10th, 2026
Alderbuck Energy expands leadership team.

Alderbuck Energy expands leadership team. September 09, 2026 at 21:00 PM EDT i This article is third-party content and does not represent the views of this site. Tamar Securities, LLC make no guarantees regarding its accuracy or completeness. Former EPRI engineer Sunil Chhaya, PhD, joins as Vice President of Market Development & Applications Engineering Alderbuck Energy, a San Diego-based power infrastructure company building solid-state systems for AI data centers, today announced that Sunil Chhaya, PhD, has joined the company as Vice President of Market Development & Applications Engineering. Chhaya joins Alderbuck from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), where he spent nearly two decades leading work on grid modernization, distributed energy resource integration, managed charging, vehicle-to-grid, and cybersecurity. At Alderbuck, Chhaya will lead market development and applications engineering for the company's integrated power platform, the Nexus Power Unit(TM) medium-voltage solid-state transformer and the PowerVector AI(TM) software layer, including predictive diagnostics, distributed energy resource management, and grid-aware orchestration. "I'm thrilled to be back at the intersection of agentic AI and power electronics, doing what I did thirty years ago in my PhD program, before anyone called it that," said Chhaya. "I joined Alderbuck because it has a team that has previously commercialized advanced hardware, and because the company understands that power electronics and the intelligence layer must be systemized together. It's not often a career comes full circle this precisely, and Alderbuck is exactly where I'm excited to close that loop." The appointment comes as Alderbuck moves its platform from design into the field. A planned Nexus Power Unit pilot at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, funded through a California Energy Commission initiative with San Diego Gas & Electric, EmeraldAI, and the Good For Others Foundation, is meant to show how medium-voltage solid-state conversion can cut footprint, installation time, and energy losses for high-density AI loads. As power demand grows more intense and dynamic with AI compute, transport electrification, and distributed resources, Chhaya will help position Alderbuck as the platform that treats power electronics, grid interoperability, and site economics as one system. About Alderbuck Energy Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Diego, with engineering and manufacturing in Dearborn, Michigan, Alderbuck Energy develops solid-state, isolated, bidirectional power control systems that streamline the connection of AI data centers while improving energy efficiency and reducing cost. Its Nexus Power Unit (NPU)(TM) replaces multiple pieces of conventional electrical equipment, transformers, rectifiers, and inverters with a single, software-enabled platform that converts medium-voltage AC directly into high-voltage DC, reducing footprint, installation time, and energy losses. Companion software PowerVector AI(TM) monitors and manages energy flows between utilities, batteries, renewables, and customer loads in real time, using AI to optimize performance and flag equipment issues before failures occur. The platform helps customers overcome grid constraints so data center developers do not have to wait years for a utility connection. Contacts. Report this content If you believe this article contains misleading, harmful, or spam content, please let Tamar Securities, LLC know.

National Tribune
Aug 18th, 2026
NC State, New York Power Authority and EPRI demonstrate solid state transformer success under real world conditions.

NC State, New York Power Authority and EPRI demonstrate solid state transformer success under real world conditions. * Science * 18 Aug 2026 11:21 pm AEST * Share North Carolina State University, in collaboration with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and EPRI, has designed and tested a high-efficiency solid state transformer (SST) capable of handling up to 1 MW of power under real-world conditions. Supported by NYPA and demonstrated at EPRI's laboratory in Lenox, Mass., the system underscores the technology's potential to improve energy efficiency, including at installations with significant power demand such as data centers, and to provide potential cost savings in grid operations. The SST can reduce heat loss associated with power production and due to its compact size can be used in areas with space constraints. "This is the first independently verified, megawatt-class solid state transformer validated on a live utility distribution feeder," says Srdjan Lukic, principal investigator on the SST project and Lampe Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State. "This is a significant step in advancing power transformer technology." The SST prototype was designed, constructed, tested and deployed by NC State students and faculty. The prototype used in this NYPA-supported, EPRI-supervised demonstration was connected to a real distribution feeder at EPRI's power delivery laboratory. Electricity is transmitted across power lines in the form of a high-voltage alternating current (AC). However, applications that require large loads, such as data centers and electric vehicles, make use of lower-voltage direct current (DC). Conventional power systems use two pieces of technology - a transformer and a rectifier - to convert high-voltage AC into low-voltage DC. These two together- the conventional transformer and rectifier - are only about 96% efficient, meaning typically approximately 4% of the power is lost as heat during the conversion process. SSTs function as both the transformer and the AC/DC rectifier. They are significantly more efficient resulting in only about 2% of the power being wasted. Given the need to maximize system capacity to support data centers or other large-scale projects, a highly efficient SST can provide cost savings, produce less heat, and lessen the amount of electricity that needs to be generated and transmitted for the application. In addition, SSTs are smaller than the conventional transformer-and-rectifier technologies so can be better used in settings where there are space constraints, such as urban areas Discover more government Learning & Developmental Disabilities "SSTs take up less space," says Lukic. "That can be important when considering large-scale projects such as data centers that can have a large footprint but also require their own power source in close proximity." NYPA, the nation's largest state public power utility, collaborated with NC State to develop the transformer because of the significant potential benefits to its operations. SSTs enhance grid efficiency and support renewable integration, bidirectional power flow, and voltage regulation to handle increasing demand associated with data centers and electric vehicle charging stations. Ramadan Elmoudi, Senior Research, Technology and Development Engineer at NYPA, who served as a project lead noted, "We learned through the project's positive outcomes that solid state transformers can serve as another tool in our clean energy toolbox to enable New York State to operate and maintain a compact, efficient and resilient grid." "It is encouraging to see innovative technologies progress from university laboratories to full-scale testing," said Drew McGuire, EPRI senior director of transmission and distribution research. "This collaboration was a powerful way to accelerate understanding and development of technologies like this SST." EPRI's role in testing the technology is significant because the organization helps utilities test new technologies, like the SST, and then develop implementation strategies to adopt those technologies. Through this collaboration, this advancement can now be shared with the industry to benefit technology developers, utilities, and the public. This work was initially funded by U.S. Department of Energy's Transportation Technologies Office (TTO) under award DE-EE0008450. NYPA funded and contributed to the SST construction and in field testing aspects of the project. Discover more Executive Branch Newspapers