DISTRIBUTECH International 2020

Dave Crudele
Program Manager, Smart Grid
New York State Energy Research Development Authority (NYSERDA)


Dave Crudele is a Program Manager for Smart Grid Systems & Distributed Energy Integration at NYSERDA. In this role, Dave leads a team focused on making investments in technology to modernize the electric grid with the goal of making the NY electric grid cleaner, more reliable, and more affordable. Dave is the co-chair of the NY State Interconnection Technical WG which brings together power engineering experts from New York utilities and distributed energy project developers to create consensus solutions to the technical challenges of integrating distributed energy resources with the electric grid. Dave also leads the NY Prize Community Microgrid Program which is identifying and addressing the challenges of building energy efficient and resilient community microgrids in New York. Before joining NYSERDA, Dave performed electric grid R&D and consulting with Nova Energy Specialists and EPRI. Dave holds BSEE & MSEE degrees with a focus on power systems engineering from Clarkson University.

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