Speakers

Dr. Gerhard Walker is the Manger for Advanced Forecasting and Modelling, System Planning at Eversource. In this role he leads a team of engineers and data scientists to evaluate the impacts of electrification policies on distribution and transmission systems. He also oversees the Company’s Integrated Energy Planning Function as well as the NWA activities. Previously, Dr. Walker was the Director for Product Management at Opus One Solutions, a Canadian Utility Software supplier, where he led the scaling up of software solutions and successful customer acquisitions including HECO, SCE, Ameren, as well as expansions into the UK and Germany.   Dr. Walker began his career in 2013 at the Netze BW, Germany’s third largest DSO, leading research and development efforts into probabilistic forecasting, advanced system planning, and EV – grid integration topics. While at the Netze BW, Dr. Walker was in charge of federal regulatory efforts positioning DSO’s with the automotive industry on charge specifications and load management as well as being responsible for ELT coordination across all subsidiaries on GridMod topics. Subsequently, Dr. Walker joined GE Current as the Director for Grid Solutions in Boston, USA, to develop distribution use cases for virtual power plant aggregation of DERs.  Dr. Walker holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering with a Thesis focused on probabilistic modelling of electric vehicle adoption rate forecasting and power flows from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.