Marc Asano is the manager of advanced T&D planning at Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc., leading the development of long-range plans and strategies for the integration of distributed energy resources. He played an instrumental role in developing the Hawaiian Electric Companies’ grid modernization strategy. Asano, who joined Hawaiian Electric in 2007, was a lead distribution planning engineer and led high photovoltaic penetration studies that enabled Hawaiian Electric to integrate greater amounts of rooftop distributed photovoltaic generation.