Tim Heidel
CEOVEIRDr. Tim Heidel is Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at VEIR. Tim served as VEIR’s first Chief Technology Officer from January 2020 when the company was founded until February 2023.
Prior to VEIR, Tim was a member of the investments team at Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), investing in companies that leverage innovative technologies to significantly address climate change. Prior to BEV, Tim served as Deputy Chief Scientist at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), where he helped lead NRECA’s technology scouting and research and development activities on behalf of NRECA’s 900 non-profit, member-owned electric utility members. Prior to NRECA, Tim served as a Fellow and Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), where he led the development of 3 new programs and managed a portfolio of over 75 research projects. His focus at ARPA-E included new approaches for controlling and optimizing the transmission and delivery of electric power. Dr. Heidel also managed programs focused on high-efficiency power electronics, including new magnetic materials, new capacitor technologies, and wide band gap semiconductor devices.
Prior to joining ARPA-E, Dr. Heidel was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and served as the Research Director for MIT’s 2011 “Future of the Electric Grid” study. Dr. Heidel holds S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT.
Building the Digital Backbone: Engineering the Grid for the Age of AI Data Centers
The rise of AI and hyperscale computing is placing unprecedented demands on the power grid—demands that no single layer of the energy system can meet …The rise of AI and hyperscale computing is placing unprecedented demands on the power grid—demands that no single layer of the energy system can meet alone. This session brings together leaders from transmission technology, utility investors, hypersc…The rise of AI and hyperscale computing is placing unprecedented demands on the power grid—demands that no single layer of the energy system can meet alone. This session brings together leaders from transmission technology, utility investors, hyperscale infrastructure, and hardware innovators to examine how new transmission capacity, grid modernization investment, and smarter interconnections must work together to deliver power at the scale moder…The rise of AI and hyperscale computing is placing unprecedented demands on the power grid—demands that no single layer of the energy system can meet alone. This session brings together leaders from transmission technology, utility investors, hyperscale infrastructure, and hardware innovators to examine how new transmission capacity, grid modernization investment, and smarter interconnections must work together to deliver power at the scale modern data centers require. Panelists will address the engineering realities of moving more power through constrained corridors, investment opportunities to help utilities manage load growth, the reliability requirements of hyperscalers and how innovation and AI are already unlocking capacity.Show MoreClick the title to see all detailsShow More
