Frances Bell

Co-Founder & CPO
Bidirectional Energy

Frances is co-founder and CPO of Bidirectional Energy. Her career has been focused on the integration of distributed energy resources (DER) to grid through the development of communications protocols, technical standards development, project deployment, and product development. Her most recent roles have been leading grid innovation at Kevala modeling the impact of EV charging on the grid; heading-up applications engineering at AMS (now Fluence) deploying stationary storage and developing a VPP to bid resources into energy programs; and power systems engineering at Tesla (previously SolarCity) in the grid engineering group piloting innovative methods to integrate solar into the grid. Prior to those roles, Frances was in the transmission planning department at PG&E. Frances has a M.S. in power systems, electrical engineering from Tufts University and a B.S. in electrical engineering, engineering science from Smith College.