David Jermain

Mr. Jermain has over thirty-five years of experience in US and global energy and

resource related disciplines. He has worked in private and public sector venues. In the

private sector, he has been an executive at leading electric utilities; engaged in managing

the design and development of competitive energy markets; and he has helped start

companies providing microgrid services, hybrid distributed energy solutions, and bio-

fueled power generation. In the public sector, he has helped develop long-term energy

plans for the State of Oregon; also, he helped write the Federal Department of Energy

Quadrennial Energy Review 1.2, released to the public in early January 2017.

Additionally, Mr. Jermain has provided advisory and consulting services as a sole

proprietor, partner in a small firm, director for a mid-sized firm, and Principal for a global

accounting firm.

His analytical and scholarly interests are wide-ranging including the value

interdependencies of information and energy, design and deployment barriers to

distributed energy resources, end-to- end supply chain transformation, and emerging

human-machine integration for multi-scaled grid management and related market

operations. His pedagogical approach is to integrate theory and practice, using case

studies and work group analytical processes to achieve integration.

Mr. Jermain has been at the forefront of energy sector changes throughout his

professional life. Early in his career he worked for a utility active in the communities it

served, including Portland, Oregon; where the initial framing and implementation of a

growth-boundary oriented planning effort to create and maintain a vital social and

economic city center served as the underpinnings of Portland’s more than thirty-year old

sustainable development model.

Also, he was involved in shaping and affecting the first merger in the electric utility

industry in nearly fifty years. He helped lead the development of independent power

production for a leading US utility. He was a leader in the design of competitive

electricity markets internationally and in the US. He was the market monitor for

California electricity markets at the turn of the Century. He has advised investors on

utility mergers, asset restructuring, and investment in innovative energy technologies and

solutions. He is published in scholarly and trade-related publications and has been a

member of the Board of a small investment fund, a proposed RTO for the US Western

Interconnect, and for one of the first onsite/microgrid companies in the US.