Andy Hoke is a senior engineer with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado. He specializes in integrating renewable energy into the power grid. He is an unabashed champion of grid-forming inverter technology, which he believes will become a fundamental pillar of the renewable energy transition. “While it’s challenging to explain grid-forming control to non-specialists, it’s super important for everyone from traditional utility engineers to policymakers to understand. We’re in a critical window where we can deploy them now at little marginal cost and save ourselves a lot of headaches down the road.”