DISTRIBUTECH International 2020

Timothy Treadwell
Testbed Program Manager
Portland General Electric (PGE)


Tim Treadwell is the Smart Grid Test Bed Program Manager at Portland General Electric (PGE). The Smart Grid Testbed Program is a multi-year effort to expand customer acceptance and adoption of demand response and load management technologies. The program’s activities, focused within three discrete substations, are helping to inform program design and assess the technical potential of load management in the PGE service territory. Prior to joining to PGE, Tim served in a number of roles including Director of Engineering, Research and Analysis at the Center for Sustainable Energy and Director of Energy Technologies at Ecova/ENGIE Insights. Tim’s work has spanned more than 13 years in the design, launch, and implementation of market transformation programs, focused on energy efficiency, load management, distributed solar, electric vehicles, and energy storage. Tim holds a B.S. in Natural Resources, Planning and Interpretation from Humboldt University and a M.S. in Environmental Policy from Bard College.

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