Frederick S. “Stu” Bresler oversees all aspects of PJM’s market functions and corporate strategy. His responsibilities cover all of the markets operated by PJM, including those for Capacity, Day-Ahead and Real-Time Energy, Ancillary Services, Financial Transmission Rights, and Demand Response operations.

Bresler is responsible for the continued evolution of PJM’s market design, including the integration of renewable resources and the development of analytics around the performance of those markets. Bresler is also responsible for establishing and maintaining PJM’s forward-looking strategic objectives and initiatives, and driving their progress across the organization. An employee of PJM since 1994, Bresler previously held other leadership and management positions within the Markets Division, as well as engineering positions in the Operations Division.

Bresler started his career at PJM in 1994 as a Professional Engineer supporting System Operations, and he was later responsible for implementing PJM’s Demand Response Program and, ultimately, market design for the RTO. Bresler was key in the development of mechanisms by which PJM’s operations and markets are coordinated with those of surrounding balancing authorities and regional transmission organizations.

Bresler earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and a Master of Management in business administration from The Pennsylvania State University. He is also certified by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Bresler is chair of the board of PJM Connext Inc., a PJM subsidiary. He is also chair of the board of APEx (the Association of Power Exchanges), an international organization of electricity and gas market operators. He has been a long-time volunteer for Habitat for Humanity of Chester County, where he served the maximum term on the organization’s board of directors from 2018–2023. Bresler is also on the external advisory board for the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering in the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.