Feb 09 2010

Mr. Congeniality

Posted by: Jonathan Marshall

A belated kudos to a couple of PG&E employees--CEO Peter Darbee and Senior Director Andrew Tang--for making GreenTechMedia's list of 100 Movers and Shakers of the Smart Grid.

The list comprises people the clean-tech blog believes are "influencing this market on a daily basis, be it through innovating, regulating, evangelizing, planning, deploying, benchmarking, architecting, standardizing, investing, developing, etc."

The list spans the alphabet from Shai Agassi, founder of the electric vehicle charging company Better Place, to Liu Zhenya, president of State Grid Corporation of China.

Darbee previously made Earth2Tech's list of the "top 15 most influential people in the smart grid space," so he's used to this sort of honor. On GreenTechMedia's irreverant list, he's sandwiched between Desh Despande, chairman of battery maker A123 Systems, and Rodney Dangerfield, who unlike others on the list, never got much respect.

Tang, who heads PG&E's Smart Energy Web program, makes the list for his ubiquity and congeniality as well as his vision. His expertise is widely sought on issues like energy information devices, home area networks and electric vehicle charging.

"When we say that Mr. Tang is everywhere, what we really mean is that he gets around the smart grid industry circles," the blog explains. "He's a true visionary for the market, not to mention a very nice gent." 

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