Since August 2017 Dr. Michael Stadler has been the Chief Technology Officer of the San Diego based Bankable Energy | Xendee Corporation. From March 2017 to December 2018 he was the area head of the Microgrid and Smartgrid department at Bioenergy2020+. Before that Michael Stadler was a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California and leading the Grid Integration Group. He studied at Vienna University of Technology, from which he holds a Master’s degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. with highest honors in energy economics. He is a recipient of the PECASE Award of the White House. The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Michael also led the microgrid team and distributed energy resources team at Berkeley Lab and was the lead developer of DER-CAM from 2008 to early 2017. He led a team of more than 40 researchers and students in the USA, China, and Europe and he is also the CTO and founder of the Center for Energy and innovative Technologies (CET).