Special Seminar: A New Kind of VPP – Dispatchable Load Shift

Boaz Ur is Chief Business Development Officer at Nostromo Energy. Prior to Nostromo, Boaz founded HARBO Technologies, which developed a product that revolutionized Oil Spill Response. After earning his MBA, Boaz worked at PG&E, where he managed the Demand Response program portfolio. In this capacity, he oversaw thousand’s of Commercial and Residential customers as well as aggregator and third-party programs. At PG&E he also testified in regulatory procedures with the California Public Utility Commission. Boaz has a dual B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.

Nostromo Energy develops innovative ice-based energy storage solutions for commercial and industrial buildings. Its IceBrick system stores energy by freezing water during off-peak hours and releases cooling during peak demand, reducing costs, easing grid strain, and cutting emissions.