Kurt Myers is a group lead, project manager and senior staff electrical engineer in the Systems Engineering and Integration Department, Distributed Energy and Grid Systems Integration group at Idaho National Laboratory, with over 25 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 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 development, 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/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. This applications experience has been utilized to assist with long-term renewable energy assessments, research, testing, demonstration, development and integration for more secure and resilient power, energy and microgrid systems, affecting deployments of over 1000MW of wind, solar and hybrid power systems through work done by INL for DOD and others since the late 1980’s. These deployments have occurred within and outside the US, both in government and industry projects.
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.