Bio
Thomas J. (Tom) King, Jr. is the grid infrastructure crosscut lead at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
He is the former director of the Sustainable Electricity Program at ORNL. In that role, he was responsible for leading, coordinating, and implementing ORNL's research and development portfolio conducted within the DOE's the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The diverse portfolio consisted of energy integration, grid modeling and analysis, systems integration, advanced components and materials, and energy security.
In 2012, King took on a joint role with the University of Tennessee, where he served as director of innovation and industry for the National Science Foundation-DOE Engineering Research Center, CURENT. The center is focused on wide-area situational awareness and wide-area controls of the electric grid.
Prior to joining ORNL, King held various management positions at Progress Energy in the fossil generation area. He also was a program manager at DOE working in distributed energy and industrial technologies. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Clarkson University and a master's in materials engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also earned a master’s of business administration from the University of Tennessee.