Mehdi Ganji is a passionate and accomplished professional respected for 17+ years of driving global sustainability projects that involve energy efficiency, microgrids, smart grids, and smart cities. He has built strategies, portfolios, programs, and teams as a go-to resource for climate and energy science, standards, and policy. Mehdi’s Microgrid journey started with the Illinois Institute of Technology microgrid and its parent project, the first of its kind Bronzeville nested microgrid. He has been the lead for more than 30 publicly-funded microgrid projects in NY, MA, IL, and CA.