Larry Bekkedahl

Larry Bekkedahl is responsible for advancing PGE’s strategy to build the grid of the future — one that is resilient, smart, and delivers a clean energy future.

He oversees PGE’s strategic system architecture and system upgrades, which will serve as the foundation for the smart grid of the future. This includes initiatives related to system integration and operations, enabling distributed energy resources, energy storage, dispatchable standby generation, grid operations, transmission system performance and development, market interfaces, new large loads, as well as innovation, rates and regulatory, and research & development.

Bekkedahl joined PGE in 2014 as vice president of Transmission & Distribution. He has four decades of leadership experience in the energy industry. Before joining PGE, he was senior vice president for transmission services at the Bonneville Power Administration and held leadership positions at Clark Public Utilities, PacifiCorp, and Montana Power Company.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Montana State University and serves on the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Research Advisory Committee, the Stanford University Bits and Watts Advisory Council, a board member of the Western Transmission Consortium, Advisory Board for the Department of Energy Office of Electricity, Pacific Northwest National Labs Advisory Board.

In addition, his experience includes 6 months in Japan with Hokuriku Electric Power Company on a utility exchange program. He has also developed generation in Southeast Asia and participated in the USAID/USEA international utility exchanges in Bangladesh, Philippines, and the Republic of Georgia.