Eva L. Gardow is a Program Manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) responsible for energy storage applied research, which includes technology reviews, project management, member engagement, and people development. She is the Project Manager of EPRI’s Energy Storage Integration Council. Other projects include managing NYSERDA long duration energy storage emerging technology demonstrations and addressing fundamental research questions for developing an electric distribution system on the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis Program in collaboration with CenterPoint Energy. Eva is the Board Chair of NY-BEST, the New York Battery & Energy Storage Technology Consortium. Prior experience was gained at FirstEnergy Service Company where her responsibilities included management of the strategy, evaluation and demonstrations of energy storage technologies, its analysis, and integration into the electric system. She is past Chair of EPRI’s Energy Storage Integration Council and was a board of director for the Energy Storage Association, 2007-2015. She was the project manager for the EPRI Smart Grid Integrated Distributed Energy Resources project deployed in FirstEnergy’s New Jersey distribution company, JCP&L. She also managed JCP&L’s renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, the solar electric business of GPU Solar, and provided technical guidance for the Ballard Generation Systems fuel cell power plant development. Other experience was gained at UTC Fuel Cells where she worked on the PC25 stationary fuel cell and Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. She has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University and an MBA from the University of Hartford.