Paul Wassink

Paul Wassink is the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Program Manager at National Grid. He has been in this role since 2016, overseeing programs that utilize residential technologies such as thermostats, batteries, and electric vehicles, as well as commercial and industrial programs through curtailment service providers.23 Before joining National Grid, Paul worked as an energy engineer, where he was involved in building audits, building modeling, and commissioning for various sectors including commercial, industrial, and military.34

Paul's career in the energy sector has been marked by a focus on demand response and energy efficiency. He is particularly interested in the evolution of traditional energy efficiency towards time and location-based demand management.1 His educational background includes studies at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich.4