Microgrids and other Local Area Power and Energy Systems

Alexis Kwasinski is an Associate Professor and R. K. Mellon Faculty Fellow in Energy in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he was an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the University of Texas, Austin. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.

Wayne Weaver is the Dave House Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan Technological University, Houghton. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Illinois.

Robert S. Balog is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Texas A & M University and holds a joint appointment at Texas A & M University at Qatar. He is the Director of the Renewable Energy and Advanced Power Electronics Research Laboratory, Director of the Solar Energy Technology Testing Laboratory and Co-director of the National Science Foundation Next Generation Photovoltaics I/UCRC at Texas A & M University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Illinois and serves on UL technical standards development committees related to photovoltaic energy systems. He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an elected Member-at-Large of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and a Technical Program Chair of the 2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE).