Brendan Kirby, P.E.

Brendan Kirby is a senior researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a private consultant. He has 24 years of electric utility experience, has been working on restructuring and ancillary services since 1994 and spot retail power markets since 1985.

Brendan's interests include electric industry restructuring, ancillary services, distributed resources, demand side response, energy storage, renewable resources, and advanced analysis techniques. He has published 33 papers, articles, and reports on restructuring issues. He is participating on the NERC IOS Working Group, IEEE SCC 21 Distributed Generation Interconnection Standard working group, served as staff to the Department of Energy's Task Force on Electric System Reliability, and has appeared as an expert witness in FERC litigation. He has conducted research projects concerning restructuring for the NRC, DOE, EEI, numerous utilities, state regulators, and EPRI.

Brendan is a licensed Professional Engineer with a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (Power Option) from Carnegie-Mellon University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.