Mr. Markel has 50 years’ experience as an energy consultant to U.S. and foreign utilities, state and federal government agencies, equipment and energy services vendors, and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). In addition to his U.S. work, Mr. Markel has directed foreign assistance programs in Central Europe, Russia, and Asia, dealing with energy and environmental issues. His expertise includes power system planning and reliability assessment, distribution automation, distributed energy resources and renewable energy, district energy, responsive load, building energy efficiency, communications systems, load research, and metering. He has helped numerous utilities implement advanced distribution system technologies and has developed a “best practices” toolkit for power distribution systems to ensure adequate reliability and service quality. He has conducted program designs for EPRI, Department of Energy (DOE), States of Maryland, Missouri, California, and several foreign utilities and local governments. He has assisted the DOE Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) to evaluate energy efficiency projects, develop technology assessments for energy efficiency measures, and improve project measurement and verification (M&V) procedures. He has assessed the reliability and resilience of critical grid infrastructure for DOE’s Office of Electricity (OE) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL and Y12). He worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop and implement energy management and metering projects and with General Services Administration (GSA) to support their advanced metering system.
