Mr. Jeff Dagle joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 1989 with bachelor of science and masters of science degrees in electrical engineering from Washington State University in 1989 and 1994, respectively. Mr. Dagle currently manages the laboratory's support to the U.S. Department of Energy's Transmission Reliability Program, which involves projects in real-time grid reliability and management, wide-area monitoring systems, load as a reliability resource, and distributed energy resource integration. He has also been integrally involved in national critical infrastructure protection programs for several years, focusing on the security of real-time control systems such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). He has served as a liaison to the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection Advisory Group. Mr. Dagle is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), serves as the chairman of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Task Force on Fast-Acting Load Control for System and Price Stability, and is the past chairman of the Power Engineering Society in the Richland Section. Mr. Dagle is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Washington, and was awarded 2001 Tri-City Engineer of the Year by the Washington Society of Professional Engineers.

John Hauer started his engineering career with the General Electric Company in 1961. This was followed by industrial work at Boeing Aerospace, a PhD at the University of Washington, and a faculty position at the University of Alberta. In 1975, he joined Bonneville Power Administration and began a long involvement with identification, analysis and control of power system dynamics. In 1994, he stepped down as BPA principal engineer for power system dynamics and assumed technical leadership of the Power Systems Group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. He is a fellow of the IEEE

Mr. Pratt leads PNNL's current internal investment in the Energy Systems Transformation Initiative, which focuses on simulation and analysis of the combined engineering and economic networks comprising the current and future energy grid. He has a detailed understanding of utility planning processes from an assignment with the Northwest Power Planning Council, and has specialized in the application of metered load and end-use data to analysis of energy systems planning and performance. He has applied this expertise to a broad range of problems, from the potential for distributed resources (generation, storage, and customer load-management) to defer costly upgrades of the electrical distribution system, to construction of advanced automated diagnostics and integrated controls to ensure the performance of commercial building systems. Mr. Pratt has special expertise in the derivation of engineering models from metered data, as well as the application of engineering frameworks to statistical analyses. He has also engaged in the design and metering of active and passive solar energy systems, as well as private sector product development. Mr. Pratt has a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.