President and Chief Executive Officer
Kaua'i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC)
Lihue, Hawaii, United States
David Bissell has served as the President & CEO at Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) since June 2010. Under Mr. Bissell’s leadership, KIUC has been consistently ranked as one of the top utilities for solar integration in the country and has increased its renewable energy sourced generation from 8% to 60%. In 2021, KIUC was named Electric Cooperative of the Year by the Smart Electric Power Alliance.
In March of 2017, KIUC drew international attention when the world’s largest utility-scale solar-plus-battery facility, developed by Tesla, was unveiled. The Tesla solar field stores energy during the day and releases it during peak evening hours.
Since then, KIUC and renewable partner AES Distributed Energy have completed two additional solar-plus-battery projects: one in Lāwaʻi and the other on the grounds of the Pacific Missile Range Facility.
Mr. Bissell earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from the state University of New York at Brockport, and his M.B.A. from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
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General Session: Embracing the Future, Powering the Present
Monday, January 22, 2024
9:10 AM – 10:00 AM HST