Kurt Myers is a Senior Technical Developer, Program
Manager, and Distinguished electrical engineer in the Systems Engineering and
Integration Department, Distributed Energy and Grid Systems Integration group
at Idaho National Laboratory, with over 29 years of experience at the lab
working with multiple government and industry customers, and university
collaborators. He works on many types of power transmission, distribution and
generation technologies including microgrids, wind, solar, energy storage/fuel
cells, diesel, gas, and many aspects of power control systems, protection,
integration and resiliency. Other specialties include wind data analysis, wind
and solar power feasibility studies, wind and solar farm design and
construction projects, micro/island grids and associated control systems,
battery/storage systems testing and integration, and research in dynamic
transmission rating systems. While at
INL, Mr. Myers has worked extensively on electric utility grid and
facility/military-Base level power systems improvements by applying
science-based engineering R&D, to improve grid integration, architecture,
reliability, availability and security of distributed power and energy systems.
Mr. Myers has a Bachelor of Science (Physics, 1992) degree from University of
Washington and a Master of Science (Electrical Engineering, 1997) from
Washington State University. He is also a licensed Professional Engineer in the
State of Idaho. Kurt has co-authored
many technical papers, reports, articles and presentations on wind and solar
power, electrical engineering, and power systems integration.