Mr. Smith is a member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society; a member of CIGRE, the International Council on Large Electric Systems; a member of the American Meteorological Society; and a Fellow of the IEEE.  He is a guest  editor for the IEEE Power and Energy magazine, and a past editor for the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.  Mr. Smith received the IEEE PES Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award in 2014.    

He received his BSME and MS degrees from MIT in 1970.  He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG).  Previously, he served as President of Electrotek Concepts, a power engineering consulting firm.  He has over 40 years of experience in the electric power industry.