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Nick Tumilowicz

Director of Product Management, Distributed Energy Management Solutions at Itron, Inc. and 1 other company
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Thought leader, strategist and recognized expert in energy flexibility, leveraging 25 years of industry experience to advance global markets towards a clean energy future. In his current capacity as Itron’s Director of Products, Nick leads the Distributed Energy Management business unit, accountable for global product development of Itron's industry leading Grid Edge DERMS Platform: Energy Forecasting, Demand Response, and DER/EV management solutions, enabling access to flexible customer energy resources. Nick holds a variety of positions on industry advisory councils: PLMA Board Member, Department of Energy (NREL, Building Technologies Office, Solar Energy Technologies Office), General Services Administration, California Energy Commission, GridFWD Leadership Committee, Incubate Energy Labs, Saudi Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnecting Authority, Distributech, and others.

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  • How does the electric grid work?

    Data centers, electric vehicles, and sustainability efforts are all changing how the US generates and distributes power.

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  • 2024 DTECH Interview, Nick Tumilowicz

    Nick Tumilowicz, director of outcomes product management, shared key themes of DISTRIBUTECH 2024 including demand flexibility and distributed energy resource management driven by the energy transition. Itron's goal is to connect the grid, grid operators and utilities with the customers they serve to enable the continued transition to electrification.

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  • Microgrids Take Major Role for Reliability, Resiliency

    An array of technologies, both thermal and renewable, are being used in the design of microgrids, supporting distributed power generation across several sectors.

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  • Solar Farms: Powering the Future with Clean Energy
    Nick describes solar farms as "large-scale solar panel installations converting sunlight into electricity," reducing carbon emissions. Utility-scale farms feed power into the grid, while community farms serve local areas. Despite a 15-20% conversion rate, solar energy is limitless and eco-friendly. Solar farms are vital for transitioning to cleaner energy, enhancing grid resilience, and reducing fossil fuel reliance.
  • Solar Energy Shifts Electric Grid Dynamics
    Nick says, "The adoption of solar energy has shifted energy dynamics, creating midday oversupply and evening demand peaks. Solar inverter control, battery storage, and V2X optimize edge devices within grid constraints, enhancing reliability and sustainability."
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  • Generally speaking, nationally, we’re well above 99.9% grid reliability. Yet, even when power outages are rare, a microgrid can still provide value. It can provide flexible services, such as capacity or resource adequacy, or energy services back to the distribution and the transmission up to the market operator level. So, this is a whole other way to be able to start thinking about how we participate with microgrids when 99-plus percent of the time they’re grid connected, but they’re also there for when the grid is not connected—in that very low probability of time.

  • Real-time, autonomous control of local energy resources is a fundamental requirement across a variety of microgrid market segments [such as distribution, military, community, C&I, and residential]. Grid edge intelligence solutions enable this functionality by providing grid-aware control of DERs, both when grid-connected, and for resilience measures, when the grid is down. Additionally, the next level of advanced metering infrastructure [AMI]—distributed intelligence [DI]—offers an embedded disconnect that serves as a grid-islanding device while providing utility distribution system operations visibility into customer operations behind the meter during an outage.

  • They’re kind of like peanut butter and jelly because one is firm, and the other one is variable. Together, you can really do the grid a service.

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