John Hieb is the principal distribution management system engineer at Snohomish County PUD. At Snohomish PUD, John has focused on distributed energy resource integration, long-term strategic planning, and is leading SnoPUD’s distribution automation project. He is a registered professional engineer and a 2007 graduate from the University of Idaho where he received a BSEE with a focus on power systems. John has a wide array of power industry experience with expertise on EMS/ADMS applications, transmission and distribution planning, and transient stability analysis in high-renewable islanded grids.