HG Chissell
Founder and CEO
Advanced Energy Group, LLC
H.G. Chissell is the Founder and CEO of Advanced Energy Group (AEG), a multi-city leadership platform that facilitates cross-sector access, engagement and understanding among its members and select stakeholders. AEG's mission is promise delivery of clean energy and resiliency goals of select cities and regions via stakeholder engagement.
AEG is a member sponsored organization with chapters in Boston, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Washington D.C. Members include utilities, city governments, hospitals, transit agencies, universities, national energy labs, and more. H.G. Chissell is also the Managing Director of Advanced Energy Agency, a consulting services firm that provides consulting, market strategy, event facilitation and media services.
H.G. Chissell has developed stakeholder programming and served as moderator for such events as VERGE Hawai’i, VERGE Oakland, Distributech 2018 and 2019, Caribbean Energy Forum, ETS17 ETS18, Microgrid Knowledge 2018 and 2020, and the Energy Storage Association.
Previously, H.G. Chissell served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Accounts for Viridity Energy, a software/service firm focused on virtual power generation and advanced energy optimization. Prior to Viridity Energy, Mr. Chissell led an energy strategy team at Gap International, a global consulting firm specializing in high-impact leadership.
Key accomplishments include the first behind-the-meter frequency regulation battery project in PJM, first 1 MW behind-the-meter battery project in Chicago, first full spectrum DR battery project in New York City and first multi-site EV2Grid project with the Pentagon in PJM and ERCOT
Mr. Chissell graduated from Swarthmore College, studied architecture at Drexel University and received his accreditation as a LEED AP. Mr. Chissell began his commercial career at RDLA, a healthcare architecture firm in Philadelphia. In 2014, Mr. Chissell received the Federal Energy and Water Management Award for his work with Fort Meade and American Water.