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Stephen Knapp

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Mr. Knapp is the vice president of Quality Assurance & Energy Markets at Power Analytics, overseeing and managing the company’s microgrid and DER systems design and integration solutions. Additionally, Mr. Knapp oversees and manages the company’s Quality Management System - Quality Assurance Program related to the ISO 9001:2015 Standards and NUPIC ASME NQA-1–2008 Standards. Mr. Knapp has been an electrical engineer and compliance officer in the energy sector for over 40 years. Prior to his position at Power Analytics, Mr. Knapp was employed with Power Generation Services, Inc., as Chief Compliance Officer in the Law, Compliance, and Business Ethics unit responsible for overseeing the company’s national compliance organization and the company’s national business ethics efforts. Additionally, Mr. Knapp served as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, where he was responsible for managing compliance programs for the federal, state, and local EPA environmental RICE Rule initiatives, as well as FERC, NERC, and RTO/ISO market rules and oversight enforcement programs.

Prior to his work at Power Generation Services, Inc., Mr. Knapp was employed with Constellation Energy Group, as the Director of Operations. While at Constellation, Mr. Knapp oversaw, and was responsible for, transmission and generation operations, Wholesale and Retail market design and stakeholder operations, FERC and NERC regulatory and compliance oversight and program development, and DER and DR compliance oversight and market development. Mr. Knapp’s primary responsibility focused on compliance oversight and enforcement related interactions with NERC and the regional RTOs/ISOs.

Constellation Energy Group/Baltimore Gas & Electric Company (BGE) – Bulk Power System Operations, EHV operations of the Bulk Electric System for BGE within the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection (PJM) region. Mr. Knapp managed BGE’s Generation and Transmission real-time operations as a certified Bulk Power System Operator. Mr. Knapp supervised the BGE Generation and Transmission Operators in their duties of operating the bulk power electric system. Mr. Knapp provided operational, technical, procedural, and incident management support to the control center on issues and events during the daily operation of the transmission system.

Mr. Knapp is a member of the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC). His membership is from January 2015 to December 2020, and was an associate 2014-2015.

Mr. Knapp received the 2015 Lifetime Honor Award from the National Association of Distinguished Professionals.

Mr. Knapp received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.