Mike Nicholas

Michael Nicholas serves as an Energy Storage Specialist & Fire Consultant with Hiller Companies. Prior to joining Hiller, he worked as a Captain and Assistant Fire Marshal for Kern County Fire Department for 26 years. During his fire service career, he led the development and implementation of their Battery Energy Storage program working closely with leaders in the industry. Currently Kern County has the largest active battery energy storage project in the world at 3.2GWh. He is working with the California Energy Storage Alliance on a campaign to help standardize the BESS submission, permitting and witness testing process in the State.