Tim Stout, a senior advisor working across the Consulting, Strategic Relations, and Research departments at E Source, has extensive experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of energy-efficiency and demand-response programs. His particular areas of expertise are program design, implementation, portfolio development, cost-effectiveness analysis, regulatory proceedings, and energy-efficiency policy and strategy. For 23 years before joining E Source, Tim held a number of positions in the Energy Efficiency and Demand Response department at National Grid, an electricity and gas utility serving more than 7 million customers in the Northeast. In 2002, he became National Grid’s first vice president of Energy Efficiency and Distributed Resources and was responsible for the design, implementation, evaluation, and regulatory approval of the organization’s electricity and gas energy-efficiency programs in New England and New York. Tim currently serves on the board of directors of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and previously served on the boards of the Consortium for Energy Efficiency and the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships. He holds an MA from Boston University and a BA from Middlebury College.