Howe, Bill

       

Mr. Howe is the Program Manager for Power Quality Research at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) with international utility membership of approximately 50 leading companies. Mr. Howe’s primary areas of expertise are:

• Power Quality Research
• Information and knowledge development and deployment
• Industrial and commercial power quality analysis;
• Industrial and commercial electric and control system design and optimization;
• Demand response
• Electric energy efficiency;
• Market research

Mr. Howe directly manages the PQ Research portfolio for EPRI. His key responsibilities are strategic planning, project management, information products, and multi-client studies covering a range of topics related to quality, reliability, and efficiency of energy delivery. Mr. Howe also manages EPRI’s flagship power quality information offering, PQ Knowledge-Based Services, one of the fastest growing information programs within the EPRI family, and the premier international power quality information resource.

Mr. Howe has an in-depth understanding of power integrity issues in the deregulated energy marketplace. He has worked extensively with energy service providers on technology, markets, and customer issues that must be mastered to succeed in delivering premium power and power-quality services. As one of the foremost experts on power integrity, his insights have been widely published in leading journals and trade publications. Before joining EPRI Solutions, he was Director of Power Integrity Businesses for Primen, now a division of EPRI Solutions, and President of the PQ Group and Director of the Power Quality Series at E Source, Inc. (now a division of Platts Energy), where he focused on the delivery of premium power quality and related services in the deregulated marketplace. Earlier, as Director of Corporate Energy Services at E Source, he launched that company’s first product line targeted to the end-user market. Previously, he served in management and senior engineering positions within a number of Fortune 500 companies, and has experience in medium-voltage power quality product development, product testing, substation and distribution-system design and construction, motors and drive systems, and process automation.