Jimmy Glotfelty
Executive Vice President — External Affairs
Jimmy Glotfelty brings a wealth of public and private sector transmission experience to Clean Line, with more than ten years of experience in both the public and private sectors. He is a well-known expert in electric transmission and distribution, generation, energy policy, and energy security. He most recently held the position of Vice President, Energy Markets, for ICF Consulting. Glotfelty served in the U.S. Department of Energy where he was the Founder and Director of the Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution, a $100 million per year electricity transmission and distribution (T&D) research and development program. Glotfelty also was the lead U.S. representative to the joint U.S.-Canadian Power System Outage Task Force investigating the Blackout of August 2003. While at DOE, Glotfelty worked extensively with utility CEOs and senior management in the electric power and energy sectors. He led teams that focused on researching T&D technologies, gaining Presidential permits for cross-border transmission lines, studying the impacts of Regional Transmission Organizations (RTO), identifying major transmission bottlenecks, and securing the critical energy infrastructure for the United States.