Jason Handley

Jason Handley, P.E. is the General Manager of the Distributed Energy Group at Duke Energy.  He is a respected utility industry professional based in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Jason has over 25 years of utility experience specializing in the smart grid, distributed intelligence, and operations management.   Jason excels at understanding the increasingly complex utility environment, managing the new digital utility workforce, and delivering on the execution and financials of technology and renewable projects.   In his current role, Jason leads a team that engineers, deploys, operates, and maintains regulated distribution distributed energy resources and microgrids.  In his previous role, as Director of the Emerging Technology Office, he managed a team that identifies and develops new technologies impacting the electrical grid and oversees all the ongoing operational aspects on new technology pilot projects.  Jason is a past Chairman of EPRI’s IntelligGrid Program Advisory Committee P161, served on the Board of Directors for the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, and served on the National Institute of Standards Technology’s Smart Grid Advisory Committee.  Currently, Jason serves on the SAS Utility Advisory Board, the DistribuTECH Advisory Committee, and the Smart Electric Power Alliance Advisory Council.    Jason received his electrical engineering degree from Auburn University and his MBA at Wake Forest University.  He has been a registered professional engineer since 2002 and received his electrical contractor’s unlimited license in 2009.