Cazalet, Edward

Dr. Cazalet has over forty years of electric power experience as an executive, board member, consultant, and entrepreneur.

In 2007 Dr Cazalet co-founded MegaWatt Storage Farms.  MegaWatt deploys and manages grid-scale electricity storage farms for multiple applications in including integration of intermittent wind and solar generation.

Dr Cazalet was appointed by California Governor Schwarzenegger in 2004 to a three-year term as a member of the five-person Board of Governors of the CAISO.  The CAISO is charged with safe and reliable real-time operation and planning of the high voltage transmission system in California.

Dr. Cazalet founded APX in 1996 and served for many years as CEO.  Dr. Cazalet conceived the business opportunity, and raised $66 million in investment capital in three rounds.  APX provides independent transaction services for electric power and environmental registries.

Dr. Cazalet founded Decision Focus, Inc. (DFI) in 1976 and led DFI to become a leading firm in energy and electric power market modeling and decision analysis consulting.  Previously at SRI International he was an early member of the pioneering Decision Analysis Group at SRI International.  With both companies, and also as an independent consultant, Dr. Cazalet has participated in and led high-level consulting and decision analysis engagements for several of the world’s largest corporations and many government agencies.

Dr. Cazalet holds a PhD from Stanford University focused on economics, decision analysis and power system planning and degrees in engineering from the University of Washington.