Dr. Lawrence E. Jones joined Alstom Grid Inc. in 2000, and is currently North America Vice President for Utility Innovations and Infrastructure Resilience, and serves on the company’s global Business Development team for Smart Grids and Smart Cities.

Dr. Jones is an advocate for the use of smart, clean, and renewable energy technologies enabled by resilient infrastructures around the world. He is Editor of the new book “Renewable Energy Integration: Practical Management of Variability, Uncertainty and Flexibility in Power Grids.” He was the principal investigator of the 2010/11 Global Survey on Renewable Energy Integration in Power Grids funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) at U.S. Department of Energy. For this work, he received the Renewable Energy World Network 2012 Excellence in Renewable Award for Leadership in Technology, and the Utility Variable Generation Integration Group 2012 Achievement Award. In 2000, he co-founded the International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power and Transmission Networks for Off Shore Wind Farms. 

In September 2010, Dr. Jones was appointed by the United States Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to a three-year term on the 15-member Federal Smart Grid Advisory Committee, and was reappointed to serve another three-year term which ends in 2016. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of several industry conferences and smart grid research programs within the Americas, Europe and Africa.

Lawrence received his MSc, Licentiate and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.