Gerry Sheble PhD

Dr. Gerald Sheblé, Executive Advisor and Senior Director US Research and Development, has more than 38 years of experience in industry, consulting, expert witness, and. academic environments. He has led research, development, and implementation for power system operation and planning using classical analytics and computational adaptive agents. Dr. Sheblé is an internationally recognized expert in the area of electric energy auction markets, capital budgeting, power system analysis, and real option valuation. He is nationally recognized as one of the nation's leading business experts on business trends within the utility industry and on trends forced by external economic drivers. His expertise extends from smart grid, data mining, power system optimization, electric energy market modeling, energy and emission management, control automation, technology innovation, bulk power operations, generation and transmission planning, operator training, energy risk management, distribution operations, energy management systems, to portfolio decision analysis of interchange contracts. His academic work concentrated on developing concepts, methods, and products for re-regulated operation, market analysis and design, equipment scheduling (especially unit commitment), transaction evaluation, reliability analysis by decision analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, failure tree analysis, market simulation and energy economics, decision analysis, real option valuation of renewable energy equipment.

He pioneered structure and market definition predicting successful industry reregulation. He has authored over 100 papers and 50 research documents. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE PES Magazine as Business Scene Editor. His columns are frequently highlighted in respected trade journals for industry innovations. He has been a premier guest/contributor at over 50 specialized workshops/courses throughout Europe and North America in over 24 countries. He has recently been an expert witness on electrical accidents, deficient project management, grounding, and intellectual property rights. He has been an expert witness on software engineering, software business planning, and industrial trends.

Before joining Quanta Technology, he has worked for Commonwealth Edison, Systems Control Inc., Control Data Corporation, Energy and Control Consultants, Auburn University, Iowa State University, Portland Stat University, University of Porto (Portugal), and INESC Porto.

Dr. Sheblé receive his MBA from The University of Iowa (Henry B. Tippie College of Business), his Ph.D. from Virginia Technological and State University, and he received his MSEE and BSEE from Purdue University. Dr. Sheblé is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions for contributions to the development of Auction Methods as an alternative to power system optimization methods addressing the de-regulation of the electric utility business.

Dr. Gerald Sheblé can be reached at gsheble@quanta-technology.com.