Sean Armstrong has worked in building electrification for 28 years, the last 12 as a consultant. He has designed more than 300 commercial buildings and 25,000 residences for low-income households to be all-electric and solar powered. Starting in 2018, Sean and his staff co-authored seven practical guides to building and transportation electrification and helped develop California’s pro-electrification, solar and battery Energy Codes. He has received design awards from the United Nations, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Southern California Building Industry Association and been inducted into the 2022 Clean Energy Hall of Fame by the California Energy Commission.

Babak Enayati (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Clarkson University, USA, in 2009. He joined New Leaf Energy in 2022, where he is the Director of Engineering. His team provides engineering services for the development of solar, wind, and energy storage facilities. Prior to joining New Leaf Energy, Mr. Enayati worked in the utility industry for 13 years holding various grid modernization engineering and managerial positions. He joined the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2006. He currently serves as the Vice President of Education on the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Governing Board. He is the current chair of the IEEE PES Transmission Subcommittee. Mr. Enayati serves as the vice chair of the IEEE Std 1547 Standard for Interconnecting Distributed Energy Resources with Electric Power Systems, and the IEEE P2800 Standard for Interconnection and Interoperability of Inverter-Based Resources Interconnecting with Associated Transmission Electric Power Systems. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Massachusetts.

Mr. McNamara serves as Grid Energy Storage Policy Analyst for Sandia National Laboratories with a focus on energy storage policy development at the federal and state levels. Mr. McNamara has spent his entire 30-year career in the energy and utilities industry with a concentration on regulatory and legislative policy. He has served as a lobbyist in California and has represented major utilities across the U.S. in numerous jurisdictions in proceedings pertaining to integrated resource planning, procurement, cost recovery, rate design, and the development of policymaking best practices. Mr. McNamara is also now leading the development of a DOE-funded Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) National Consortium that will create a forum for industry stakeholders to convene and develop consensus-based recommendations to chart a pathway to commercialization for LDES technologies over the next decade. Mr. McNamara’s areas of subject matter expertise, in addition to energy storage policy, include distributed energy resources, AMI/smart grid, renewables, and competitive retail markets.

Mr. Vartanian has over 25 years of experience deploying advanced grid technologies, performing electric system studies, and contributing to technical standards development. Mr. Vartanian was most recently a Sr. Technical Advisor at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. At PNNL his work supported R&D to improve the reliability and integration of grid-connected energy storage systems. He has also worked previously for Mitsubishi Electric, DNV KEMA, A123 Systems, Enron, the California Energy Commission, and Southern California Edison. During his 15 years at Southern California Edison Mr. Vartanian’s activities spanned traditional T&D planning through utility R&D. He is a currently Secretary of the IEEE P1547.4 working group revising the Guide for Interconnection of Intentional Islands, and is vice-chair of the IEEE Energy Storage Collaboration Team. Mr. Vartanian received his BSEE from Cal Poly Pomona and his MSEE from USC. Mr. Vartanian is a licensed professional electrical engineer and a senior member of the IEEE.