ISUW 2022 Speaker

Girish Ghatikar
Advisor, ISGF

Mr.Girish Ghatikar is a Senior Program Manager and leads the information and communication technologies (ICT) for distributed energy resources (DER) and integration research at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California. The research identifies,creates,and transfers ICT-centric solutions for the adoption of DER in to the power system.Before joining EPRI,Ghatikar was the Chief Research Officer at Green lots and led the development of electric vehicle-grid and battery storage-integrated systems. At the U.S.Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he was the Deputy Leaderfor Grid Integration program and the Chief Architect for international standard, Open ADR.Girish Ghatikar’swork has appeared in over 75 publications and he is regularly asked to speak at events and conduct training related to clean transportation and clean energy. Ghatikar holds Master’s degree in Telecommunication Systems,Computer Technologies,and Infrastructure Planning. Ghatikar’s work has appeared in over 90 publications and he holds Master’s degree in Telecommunication Systems/Computer Technologies and Infrastructure Planning.