John Glassmire

Senior Microgrid Advisor
ABB, Inc.

John Glassmire is a senior advisor for microgrids, battery energy storage and distributed energy at ABB. Trained as a mechanical/electrical engineer, John has extensive experience in the modeling and design of both distributed and tradi-tional energy supply systems. For over a decade, he has performed cost modeling and design optimization for energy systems ranging from small isolated systems, to isolated Arctic diesel grids, to utility inter-connected microgrids, to Pacific and Caribbean islands. An accomplished speaker, he has led training workshops on the issues integrating renew-ables into electrical grids for hundreds of clients worldwide. Prior to joining ABB, he was the Director of Engineering at HOMER Energy. BSME (Rice), MSME (Northwestern).