Director of Product Management, Distributed Energy Management Solutions
Team leader, strategist, and recognized expert in DER management, including solar, storage, and EV technology leveraging decades of unique industry experience to advance global markets toward a clean energy future. Building on a progressive career arc from a mechanical engineering, to renewable energy resource deployments, to global product portfolio management. This professional breadth supports a specialized talent for big-picture visioning, whole-system strategies, and cross-discipline solutions for increasing the scale of renewable energy’s positive impact on business and society.<br /> <br /> In his current capacity as Itron’s Director of Product Management, Nick leads the Distributed Energy Management business unit, accountable for global product development of demand response and DER solutions enabling access to flexible customer energy resources. Prior to joining Itron, Tumilowicz led global research and development at EPRI, accountable for transmission, distribution, and customer-connected energy storage research. As Director of Product Management at SunEdison, led the world’s largest managed renewable power plant fleet across six continents, managing data acquisition, and control platform, operating a fleet of over 4 GW of renewable generation assets. Earlier in his career, Tumilowicz built and managed the service department at the nation’s leading renewable integrator, REC Solar (now Sunrun and Duke Energy), designing and deploying the country’s first commercial fleet of rooftop solar.<br /> <br /> Nick is an industry leader having held a variety of positions on advisory councils: Department of Energy (NREL, Building Technologies Office, Solar Energy Technologies Office), General Services Administration, California Energy Commission, GridFWD Leadership Committee, Incubate Energy Labs, Saudi Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnecting Authority.