Ms. Tripp has over 25 years in the energy industry with a specialty in transmission delivery and market issues. Her expertise includes transmission and market risk, transmission expansion and planning strategies, financing due diligence, transmission and resource planning oversight, transmission service and delivery strategies, security constrained economic dispatch oversight, open access transmission tariff support, nodal market congestion and losses assessments, wind curtailment mitigation strategies and resource integration support.

Ms. Tripp has served in several leadership positions with electric utilities, consulting firms, and a leading developer of wind generation. She has made presentations at many industry conferences.

Ray Saka is Sr. Director of Sales at IHI Energy Storage Inc., an Energy Storage focused subsidiary of IHI Americas Inc. Ray overseas all US sales operations, application engineering, and contract management. Prior to IHI, Ray spear headed market & business development at TMEIC Corporation with a focus of utility-scale PV inverter business development and market analysis for US operations. Ray has extensively worked on new market development, key account partnerships, strategic business planning, competitive analysis, and innovative technology assessment for US renewable PV and energy storage markets. He has written several articles on inverter reliability, solar & energy storage coupling, and presented topics at utility conferences such as Intersolar NA & EU and Greentech Media events.