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Leo Casey
Topic: Grid Integration & Solar Energy
Vice President and the Chief Technology Officer
SatCon Technology Corporation
Dr. Leo Casey is a Vice President and the Chief Technology Officer of SatCon Technology Corporation. Satcon is a Power Electronics and Power Systems Company focusing on Utility Scale grid-connected renewables, particularly PhotoVoltaics. Dr. Casey's interests include Utility Grid reliability enhancement, conventional and alternative sources of primary energy, energy conversion, associated energy storage mechanisms and Grid interconnection techniques. He also works in the area of advanced power conversion attempting to achieve higher efficiencies and reliabilities, while lowering costs, through the use of advanced components such as Wide Band Gap semiconductors, and advanced controls. Leo is a New Zealander and was educated at the University of Auckland and then at MIT. He was a Fulbright Scholar. He has worked in industry since completing his graduate education, having worked in the Utility Industry in New Zealand, he is an Editor of the Energy Conversion Transactions of the Power Engineering Society of the IEEE, and is also a member of NREL's Solar Technical Review Panel.
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