Vehicle-to-Grid and Grid-to-Vehicle Connectivity
Dr. Allen Hefner
Project Leader, Semiconductor Electronics Division Enabling Devices and ICs Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dr. Allen Hefner joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1983 where he is currently a member of the NIST Smart Grid Team; leads the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel’s Distributed Renewables, Generators, and Storage Domain Expert Working Group; and leads NIST’s Power Devices and Thermal Measurements Project. He is currently focused on advancing electrical interconnection standards, communication standards, and power electronics technologies necessary to enable resilient networked power systems including high penetrations of renewable/clean energy sources, energy storage systems, and plug-in electric vehicles.
Dr. Hefner is the NIST representative on the Steering Group of the Interagency Advanced Power Group (IAPG) and serves as the Chairman of the IAPG’s Electrical Systems Working Group where he leads program coordination and information exchange among different federal government agencies in the area of electrical power systems and power conditioning technology. He also initiated the Industry High-Megawatt Power Conditioning System Working Group and has organized a number of meetings of this group, including most recently the “Workshop on Power Conditioning System Architectures for Plugin-Vehicle Fleets as Grid Storage” held at the Pentagon in June 2011.
Dr. Hefner received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1987, was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) in 2001, and has received a number of awards from the IEEE, NIST, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
