Speakers

Dr. Daniel Violette is a Director with ev.energy.  He is a Ph.D. economist with fields in econometrics and quantitative methods. He works on ev.energy’s data collection, reporting and analyses. Dr. Violette is an expert in estimating attributable impacts from load management programs. He is responsible for ensuring that the data collected from EV Load Management Programs fit into and impact estimation and regulatory review. Dr. Violette has also managed projects on Distribution System Planning addressing resilience and reliability. He helped establish Navigant’s (now Guidehouse) distribution system planning group with project work for SCE, BPA, EPRI and U.S. DOE. Dr. Violette has worked on integrated DER linking EV load management programs with other DERs, and also with rates and pricing strategies. He has testified in a dozen jurisdictions on rate design/cost-of-service and integrated supply-side/demand-side resource plans.  He has authored guidebooks for EPRI, NARUC, and the U.S. DOE on estimating impacts attributable to demand-side programs. He was a co-author of the CPUC’s DR Impact Estimation Handbook.

Prior to ev.energy, Dr. Violette was a Director with Rolling Energy Resources, and he spent 10 years as a Managing Director in the Utility Practice at Navigant Consulting (now Guidehouse).  His industry contributions include serving three elected terms as the Chair of the Association of Energy Services Professionals (AESP), two terms as the Vice Chair of the Peak Load Management Alliance (PLMA), and as a Board Member of the Association of Demand Response and Smart Grid.   He served a 3-year term as a member of the DER Advisory Council at the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado where he was awarded highest honors in the fields of Econometrics and Industrial Organization.