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Speakers
This page includes the biographies for the speakers of the January 31, 2008, Energy Collaborative Analysis Initiative Web Forum.
Tom Lee is a financial economist at the Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy, where he's worked since 2001. His capacity is to design, develop, and implement behaviors of fixed capital investments and price volatility of the electricity and petroleum industries for the National Energy Modeling Systems (NEMS). His recent studies have involved technological risk assessments of the investment for the power industry and price volatility behavior in the petroleum market. Lee also is an associate professor of finance, lecturing on corporate finance and risk management at Marymount University in Virginia. His research interest areas are capital investment under uncertainties, price volatility behavior, and risk management with derivatives. He holds an M.A. in finance and a Ph.D. in financial economics.
Chris Namovicz is an operations research analyst for the Energy Information Administration's (EIA's) Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting. Namovicz maintains and updates wind and solar portions the National Energy Modeling Systems (NEMS), which is the primary model used to develop EIA's Annual Energy Outlook. Namovicz is responsible for analysis and forecasting of renewable resources and generation, including several reports to Congress analyzing the impact of renewable energy policies such as a national renewable portfolio standard and production tax credits. Prior to joining EIA, Mr. Namovicz worked as an Energy Policy Analyst with SENTECH, Inc. and Senior Analyst with Technology & Management Services, Inc. He holds an M.S. in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University and B.S. in Engineering and Public Policy from Washington University in St. Louis.
Nate Blair has been a senior analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) since 2002. He specializes in solar power system modeling, and has worked extensively with the Solar Advisor Model (SAM) being developed by the Solar Energy Technologies Program. The Solar Advisor Model is able to evaluate several types of financing (from residential to utility-scale) and a variety of technology-specific cost models for several different solar technologies. In addition to his work with SAM, his primary research interests include macroeconomic energy impact analysis, wind power market modeling, transient power system modeling, and building performance measurement. Blair has an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Solar Energy Laboratory. His B.A. in physics is from Gustavus Adolphus College.
John McKinsey is an attorney in the law firm of Stoel Rives, specializing in energy infrastructure development issues. Over the course of his career, John has completed more than $2 billion in plant infrastructure projects. McKinsey has represented clients before numerous regulatory agencies including the California Energy Commission, California Air Resources Board, California Department of Fish and Game, State Lands Commission, United States Department of Fish and Wildlife, the California Coastal Commission and numerous regional governmental agencies including air quality districts, water boards, cities, and counties. He also gained significant engineering and applied science knowledge and skills while serving in the United States Navy on submarines as a nuclear power plant operator and supervisor and leading electrician. He graduated with his B.A. in economics from California State University in 1996 and a J.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1999.
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