Board of Directors
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Mark Martinez
Mark is a senior portfolio manager with over 35 years of innovation experience in customer demand side management, specifically advanced technologies, integrated customer solutions, and emerging market-based program design and delivery. His current responsibilities include developing pilots and demonstrations of emerging technologies in SCE’s Emerging Markets and Technology program, and to support efforts for improving demand response and flexible end use resources, customer engagement strategies, and innovative cost-effective smart-grid solutions for all SCE customer sectors.
During his career Mark has advanced innovative electric customer technologies in the areas of residential end use applications, integrated distributed energy resources, commercial industrial automated controls, and water-energy nexus programs and services. His efforts have developed cost effective customer solutions and advanced secure communications protocols for the integration of smart appliances, electric transportation, energy storage and load shifting technologies in support of SCE’s demand side programs and retail tariffs.
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Mary Ann Piette, Vice-Chairman
Mary Ann Piette is the Associate Lab Director of the Energy Technologies Area (ETA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This area includes the Building Technology & Urban Systems (BTUS), Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts, and Energy Storage & Distributed Resources divisions. She manages a research enterprise comprised of about 700 staff and affiliates, including 120 principal investigators working across a broad set of technology R&D programs to accelerate decarbonization ranging from demand-side energy efficiency and grid integration to hydrogen technologies, energy storage, and renewable energy systems. As a Senior Scientist her personal research interests include new building technologies, modeling, and analysis; commercial and residential building systems integration; grid interactive communications and integration with electric vehicles, energy storage, and photovoltaics. Piette leads the new California Load Flexibility Research and Deployment Hub (CalFlexHub) pioneering new technologies, and advanced communication and controls to enable buildings and EVs to receive automated dynamic pricing and GHG signals. Piette has authored over 115 peer reviewed publications related to energy systems, and she recently won a Lifetime Achievement Award at Berkeley Lab for her work in energy-efficient and grid-interactive buildings research. As part of energy modeling teams at Berkeley Lab, she has received two R&D 100 awards for the tools to evaluate commercial building and city-level energy efficiency and decarbonization strategies. She is a board member of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy where she chairs the Research Advisory Board.
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Albert Chiu, Secretary/Treasurer
Albert Chiu is a Principle Product Manager in the Integrated Grid Planning and Innovation Department at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). In his 25+ years working in clean energy technology, he focuses on developing new policies and programs on Virtual Power Plant (VPP), Load Management (LM), Integrated Demand Side Management (IDSM), Energy Efficiency (EE), Demand Response (DR) and Vehicle Grid Integration (VGI) for utility customers. He is the lead of the DR Emerging Technology (DRET) and IDSM Programs at PG&E. He led all DR technology-related studies, policies development and strategies. Albert has expertise in DER Technology software and hardware product development, quality assurance, program management, measurement and evaluation, and operations across the entire product lifecycle. Leading by example, he created consensus among internal and external clients while seeking creative and data-driven solutions to complex business issues. He is a proactive individual contributor who fosters trust and involvement through integrity and cooperation. He served as a witness assistant in multiple Demand Response and other load management proceedings. Working jointly with Lawrence Berkeley and National Lab and Southern California Edison, they started the OpenADR Alliance in 2010 and he has held various positions on the OpenADR Alliance Board. Albert was involved in the NIST National Smart Grid activities, multiple Technical Advisor Groups with LBNL, NRDC, CEC, EPRI, ACEEE, CA universities, national labs and other companies. He participates in Code and Standard works with NIST, NAESB, DOE, CEC, USGBC, IEC and other standards organizations. In his free time, he volunteers at the US Coast Guard Auxiliary and different nonprofit organizations such as Building for Humanity and Miracle League. |
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Sunil Goyal
Sunil is an Advance project leader at Ford Motor Company with over 20 years of experience in software delivery and business process improvement. Since 2018, Sunil has been engaged in the development of the technical strategy for OVGIP (Open Vehicle Grid Integration Platform), which will enable smooth and easy integration of OEM and utilities. Sunil is responsible for leading advanced pilot planning for Grid Services and Energy Services. This includes the development of new business partnerships as well as defining platform opportunities that can improve business efficiency and effectiveness with our external partners. He currently working in Ford's energy service team in model e and focusing on developing in-house capabilities of manage charging using telematics.
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Eric Olson
Eric Olson serves as a Senior Product Manager at the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA). He focuses on supporting grid-connected devices to enhance their benefits for consumers and utilities and increase their adoption. He works with industry partners—including manufacturers, utilities, energy efficiency organizations, and national laboratories—to identify, test, and evaluate products, technologies, and practices that enable NEEA's 140 utility stakeholders to meet their energy efficiency and grid flexibility goals.
Over his 25+ year career, including more than half dedicated to environmentally focused sectors and prior leadership in marketing and product management for multiple organizations, Eric has launched a wide array of innovative products. His approach centers on pinpointing opportunities that deliver distinctive value to end users while driving strong market adoption. Key areas of expertise include the full lifecycle of commercial, consumer, and industrial product development and launch; contributions to industry standards; and enhancements to after-the-meter efficiency in varied applications.
In addition to his work with the OpenADR Alliance, Eric is active in multiple industry connectivity standards committees, including ANSI/CTA-2045, as well as multiple AHRI groups focusing on demand response.
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