Dr. Holmes Hummel accelerates investments in energy transition by advancing inclusive financial solutions for deployment at the edge of the power grid. As the founder of Clean Energy Works, Dr. Hummel has worked with path-making utility, Roanoke Electric, to build a team that has highlighted and validated the value of bidirectional EV charging equipment to both a host site and the grid system. As the Managing Director for Energy Equity & Just Transitions at Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, Dr. Hummel applies frameworks for equity and inclusion to multiple energy revolutions already underway, particularly among distributed energy solutions. Previously, Dr. Hummel served as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of Energy’s Office of Policy & International Affairs and later served as a contributor to the Clean Energy Solutions Center established through the Clean Energy Ministerial. Fieldwork led by Dr. Hummel has won endorsement from the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance as well as a Fire Award for high-impact innovation at the Bloomberg summit on The Future of Energy. In addition to earlier work with energy engineering and software innovators in the Silicon Valley, Dr. Hummel earned a doctorate degree from Stanford University for interdisciplinary research on energy technology scenarios that achieve 100% clean energy.