Dr. Marcelo Sandoval is co-founder and CEO of ProsumerGrid, Inc. an award-winning cleantech company that provides software for electric utilities for advanced forecasting, simulation, and optimal planning of electricity systems with distributed energy resources. Dr. Sandoval has successfully completed multi-million projects with ARPA-e, EPRI, Sandia, NYSERDA, and electric utilities in many states in Integrated Grid+DER Planning, non-wire alternatives, and optimal microgrid design. He has over 15 years of experience in electrical engineering focusing on distributed energy resources, power generation, transmission and distribution planning, and analysis. He has applied his unique research in Integrated Grid, Renewables, and DER Planning, Modeling, Simulation, Valuation, and Optimization, to successfully complete impactful projects such as NYSERDA-Avangrid: Integrated EV and DER Forecasting and Grid Impact Analysis; ARPA-e: DSO Simulation Studio.