DISTRIBUTECH International 2020

Morgan Putnam
Director of Business Development
Clean Power Research


Morgan Putnam is a Director of Business Development at Clean Power Research. As a Director of Business Development, Morgan interfaces with utilities, DER developers, regulatory agencies, and strategic software partners to advance the energy transformation by identifying the specific things that utilities and developers need to integrate renewables and DERs onto the grid and into the utility business model. Such work includes solar integration studies with PNNL for Duke Energy, DER adoption planning, and partnering with distribution analysis providers to improve the DER interconnection process. Morgan started off his career in the solar industry working on next-generation solar cell technologies at Caltech. After earning his PhD in materials science in 2010, he co-founded Caelux Corp., receiving both a Department of Energy SunShot award and venture-capital financing in 2011.

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