Who We Are: Our Management Team
Edward C. Kern, Jr., Ph.D. Ed Kern has twenty years experience working with photovoltaic systems
and their interconnection to electric power systems. He directs the
Ascension Technology Division of Applied Power Corporation and serves on
the Board of Directors of Applied Power. As President of Ascension
Technology Dr. Kern has grown the company from two to twelve employees,
while serving photovoltaic system research, development, engineering and
installation projects across the United States and in Mexico, Costa Rica,
Puerto Rico, Brazil, South Africa, and India.
Dr. Kern currently is a MIT Research Affiliate serving as an advisor to
the MIT Energy Laboratory Analysis Group for Regional Electricity
Alternatives. He also serves as president of the New England Solar
Energy Industries Association. A Senior Member of the IEEE, Dr. Kern
has been a member of the Energy Development Subcommittee of the Power
Generation Committee and the Power Generation Committee representative to
the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee on Dispersed Storage and
Generation. During the 1980s he helped develop the IEEE Guide for
Interfacing Dispersed Storage and Generation with Utility
Systems. He has been a consultant to the Electric Power Research
Institute on photovoltaic applications and has served on the Science and
Technology Review Committee for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's
Solar Radiation Resource Assessment Project. Dr. Kern holds two U.S.
patents and is the author of numerous papers and reports on end-use
electric power consumption, distributed photovoltaic generation and early,
cost-effective PV applications for electric utilities.
Director, Ascension
Technology Division
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