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Energy Analysis Forum 2002 (May 29-30)
The following experts spoke during the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's second Energy Analysis Forum in Golden, Colorado, on May 29-30, 2002.
Deborah Adler, Environmental Protection Agency
Deborah Adler is an environmental scientist in the Advanced Technology
Division of the EPA National Vehicle and Fuel Emission Lab, Office of Transportation and Air Quality. She has been employed by the EPA since 1986, working primarily in the areas of alternative fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, and life-cycle analysis of
fuels. Her work supports the research, development, and analysis of
national fuel policies. She leads the EPA Alternative Fuels Team and is
the EPA representative to the Transportation Research Board Alternative
Fuels Committee. Deborah received both a bachelor's and master's in atmospheric
and oceanic science from the University of Michigan.
Eldon Boes, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Eldon Boes is the past director of NREL's Strategic Energy Analysis and Applications Center, which includes analysts working both at NREL's primary location in Golden, Colorado, and in NREL's Washington office. He also is manager of NREL's Washington office. Eldon works primarily on the development and management of a strong Energy Analysis Program at NREL in support of the planning, management, and representation of renewable energy and energy efficiency programs at NREL and at DOE. He began his career in renewable energy working on solar resource assessment at Sandia National Laboratories in 1974. During the next 16 years at Sandia, Eldon worked on photovoltaics (PV) systems and applications development, PV concentrator R&D, and solar thermal collector development. He served as supervisor or manager of several solar programs including the PV Program at Sandia. Eldon has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Purdue University, and has taught mathematics for eight years. He and his wife Joan live in Alexandria, Virginia, and he has been commuting by bicycle for 35 years.
Jim DeMocker, Environmental Protection Agency
Jim DeMocker is senior policy analyst for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation. Jim's principal responsibilities include
management of the Clean Air Act section 812 series of Reports to
Congress on the benefits and costs of the Act, for which he won an EPA
Science Achievement Award in 2001. His responsibilities also include
coordination and oversight within the Air Office of issues related to
economic analysis techniques, assumptions, and applications. Jim holds
a masters in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton
University.
Art Diem, Environmental Protection Agency
Art Diem is an environmental engineer currently working in the State and
Local Capacity Building Branch of the Office of Atmospheric Programs at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C. Art previously worked in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for 12 years developing state
Regulations. These included VOC and NOx RACT rules, emission reporting rules,
and New Jersey's NOx Cap and Trade Program in response to the Ozone Transport
Commission's MOU and EPA's NOx SIP Call. Art also worked closely with
staff from the New Jersey Energy Office on environmental disclosure, Renewable
Portfolio Standards, and other environmental aspects of electricity
restructuring in New Jersey. Art holds a bachelor's in engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Dan Eden, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
Dan Eden is the executive assistant to Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commissioner (TNRCC) Ralph Marquez. He advises the commissioner on environmental policy and regulatory issues, as well as represents the commission in meetings with the regulated community, the legislature, and the public. In his current capacity as executive assistant to the commissioner, Dan's focus has been on air-quality issues. Prior to his employment with the Texas environmental agency, Dan worked for the U.S. EPA Region VI office in Dallas and the Texas House of Representatives. Dan also has served as president of the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials and has testified before the U.S. Congress concerning waste management and remediation issues.
A native of Dallas, Dan attended the University of Texas at Austin and received bachelor's and master's degrees in environmental management and planning.
Jack Edwardson, Environmental Protection Agency
Jack Edwardson is associate director of the Air Quality Strategies and Standards Division
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. His EPA career began in 1980 in Washington, D.C., with the Budget Division, specializing in the Hazardous Waste and Superfund programs, where he was promoted to the position of deputy budget director. Since that time he has served in a variety of positions. In 1988, he moved to EPA's facility at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, first as the deputy director for administration, then to the air program in 1992 to work in EPA's Air Toxics program, and then to his present position as associate director. He has supervised a number of workgroups at EPA, including The Superfund Contingency Workgroup, which assisted the Superfund program weather a hiatus in funding during its first Congressional reauthorization; and Cool Cities, where he was program manager for the project that examined energy efficiency and other innovative approaches for emission reductions. Jack also has been chair of the OARM Human Resources Council and served as the director of the RTP Combined Federal Campaign for two separate campaigns.
Anna Garcia, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
Anna Garcia is the director of state programs for the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions (CECS), a division of the Global Environment and Technology Foundation. She provides unique environmental and energy expertise in creating partnerships with and among state agencies to design multipollutant strategies that have both environmental and economic benefits. These strategies incorporate innovative technologies, policy initiatives, and programs, which will help them meet existing and emerging clean air challenges - including ozone and particulate matter standards, regional haze, and climate change. She has worked with energy and environmental agencies in several states, including Wisconsin, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, California, Indiana, Ohio, and Montana. She also has worked with key state organizations, including the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators (STAPPA), the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). Prior to joining GETF, Anna was a program manager for the U.S. EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, Clean Air Markets Division. She has a bachelor's in biology from Princeton University and an executive MBA from George Washington University.
Abraham Haspel, Department of Energy
Abraham Haspel is the deputy assistant secretary for Planning, Budget, and Management of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) of the U.S. Department of Energy. He was appointed to this position in September 1999 and also served as the acting director of EERE during the past presidential transition from January through May 2001. For the nine years prior to this appointment in EERE, Haspel served as the deputy assistant secretary for Energy, Environment, and Economic Policy Analysis; acting principal deputy assistant secretary for Policy and International Affairs; director, Office of Economic Analysis and Competition; and, chief economist in the Office of Policy and International Affairs of DOE. Before joining DOE in 1990, Haspel spent 12 years at the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) where he was the assistant director for Program Review of the Minerals Management Service; a senior economist/staff assistant to the assistant secretary for Land and Minerals Management; and a senior economist in the Office of Policy Analysis. Prior to joining DOI in 1978, Haspel was an Economic Policy Fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and an assistant professor of economics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, and a baccalaureate degree (magna cum laude) in mathematics and economics from Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) in 1971. Haspel resides in Annandale, Virginia, with his wife and three sons.
Juanita Haydel, ICF Consulting
Juanita Haydel is a vice president with ICF Consulting's Energy Practice where she directs work in the areas of energy market and environmental analysis, and industrial energy efficiency. Juanita currently directs ICF's support to the Clean Air Markets Division of EPA and other clients in the areas of air regulatory modeling and policy analysis. Ongoing work includes support to EPA's multipollutant analyses, support to the Western Regional Air Partnership in the areas of economic analysis of the backstop SO2 trading program and renewable resource goals, and analyses of a range of air and energy policies in the power sector. These analyses include renewable portfolio standards, financial incentives, carbon emissions policies, and permit allocation issues. Juanita has a master's from the MIT's Sloan School and a bachelor's in civil engineering, also from MIT.
Brian Henderson, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
Brian Henderson is director for Energy Efficiency Services at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Brian has 28 years of experience in the energy efficiency field for both public- and private-sector organizations as a senior manager, department head, and project manager. At the NYSERDA, Brian directs a staff of 30 engineers, architects, and analysts providing a portfolio of technical and financial assistance programs and services. These programs and services are assisting thousands of businesses and institutions across the state to reduce facility energy costs, implement load-management strategies, and use alternative-fueled vehicles. Henderson also is active in several energy-related local, regional, and national organizations. Prior to joining NYSERDA, Brian was director of the Technical Services Bureau at the New York State Energy Office. He also was a project engineer in the Energy Systems Group of Grumman Aerospace Corporation.
Chris James, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
Chris James is the director of the Planning and Standards Division, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Air Bureau. His primary responsibilities include integrating utility restructuring with environmental components; identifying and implementing control measures that support state initiatives; coordinating with other northeast states to develop consistent programs throughout the region; and directing air policy and planning efforts. Chris also represents the department on Connecticut's board that oversees the systems benefit charge program. He's also cochair for the Regulatory Assistance Project, Distributive Resources Collaborative, an effort to develop national emissions standards for small generation; and cochair of a group writing model rule for environmental performance standards (EPS). Prior to his current role, he was assistant director for the Engineering and Enforcement Division of the Connecticut DEP and was a senior environmental engineer with the U.S. EPA Region 10, Seattle, Washington. He has his master's in environmental studies from Brown University and his bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Thomas Kerr, Environmental Protection Agency
Thomas Kerr is the chief of EPA's Energy Supply and Industry Branch, a group that promotes supply-side efficiency in the energy sector as a means to achieve cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. This branch includes teams that promote clean energy technologies, and Climate Leaders, an innovative new EPA initiative that promotes corporate commitments to inventory and reducing entity-wide greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Protection Partnerships Division more broadly promotes market-based solutions to mitigate climate change, including the flagship Energy STAR efficiency program. Prior to this position, Tom worked in the private sector, providing government and industry clients with assistance in promoting clean energy and renewable energy technologies. He also has held other positions within the government, serving as the EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) Team Leader for three years, and working as an Environmental Impact Assessment Specialist at the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Tom has a master's in international environmental law from Georgetown University, a J.D. in environmental law from DePaul University, and he received his master's in economics from the University of Michigan. Tom also is an adjunct professor of law for the American University's School of International Service.
Douglas Larson, Western Interstate Energy Board
Doug Larson is the executive director of the Western Interstate Energy Board, an association of 12 western states and three western Canadian provinces. Members of the board, which is responsible for all energy-related issues affecting the West, are appointed by the governor or premier. The board has three committees, including a Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation that includes the regulatory, planning, and facility-siting agencies from the states and provinces in the western interconnected electric power grid. The board also serves as the energy arm of the Western Governors= Association and staffs the Air Pollution Prevention Forum of the Western Regional Air Partnership. The forum is charged with developing policies to achieve the goal of 20 percent of the electricity consumed in the region coming from renewable resources.
Sasha Mackler, Environmental Protection Agency
Sasha Mackler is an energy and environmental analyst with the Clean Air Markets Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a position he has held for the past two years. His responsibilities include model development and policy
analysis on the environmental and economic impacts of emission trading
programs on the U.S. power sector. Prior to joining the EPA, he worked
for a technical design and consulting firm focusing on energy-efficient
building designs in both San Francisco and London. He has master's degrees in both earth resources engineering and public administration from Columbia University.
Margaret Mann, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Margaret Mann is a senior chemical process engineer in the National Bioenergy Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. She has extensive expertise in process design and simulation, process cost analysis, life-cycle assessment (LCA), and technical project management. She also has 10 years of experience in determining the technical and economic feasibility of industrial and research technologies, and is an expert in the analysis of the environmental consequences of various renewable and fossil-based energy conversion systems. She has conducted LCAs of coal, natural gas, and biomass power technologies, hydrogen systems, and photovoltaics. In 1996, she led an effort to develop a methodology for conducting LCAs of renewable power systems. Margaret is on the advisory board of the American Society of Life Cycle Assessment. Additionally, she is an advisory member of the North American Life Cycle Inventory Database Project, and recently cochaired an effort with the Environmental Protection Agency to form database standards for life-cycle assessments of energy projects. Margaret is the U.S. representative for the International Energy Agency's Task 38, Greenhouse Gas Balances of Bioenergy Systems.
Michal C. Moore, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Michal Moore is an economist and former regulator in the energy industry in California. Michal received his bachelor of science degree in geology at Humboldt State University in California. He received his master's degree from the Ecology Institute at the University of California at Davis in land economics, and he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in England in economics where he is a member of Darwin College. He is a former regulatory commissioner with the California Energy Commission, where he held the designated economist position. In that role, he oversaw market structure issues, pricing of electricity and natural gas and data collection for the commission as presiding member of the Electricity and Natural Gas Committee. He directed the $2B U.S. program to maintain and expand the renewable energy industry in the state and presided over many complex siting cases for new fossil-fired generation. Michal currently is chief economist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, where he directs a strategic analysis research team.
Philip Powlick, Indiana Department of Commerce
Philip Powlick is program manager for Energy Resources at the Energy Policy Division of the Indiana Department of Commerce. In this role, Philip manages programs providing assistance for alternative-fuel vehicles and refueling, renewable energy, biomass, and coal research. He also is responsible for tracking a variety of other energy issues, including coal, electric utilities, gasoline, heating oil, and propane; and has worked on a wide variety of energy and environmental policy issues during his nearly five years with the division. Prior to entering state government, he taught political science for eight years at Denison University, DePauw University, and Allegheny College, specializing in American politics, constitutional law, and American foreign policy. Philip received a Ph.D. in 1990 and an M.P.I.A. in 1985 from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor's from Cornell University in 1983.
Steven Pratt, Environmental Protection Agency
Steven Pratt joined the Environmental Protection Agency in July 2000 as an environmental engineer in the Air Planning Section. He is the program manager for alternative vehicles and fuels, and fuel cell technologies, as well as other activities in mobile source-related areas. He has written several federal approvals of State of Texas SIP revisions, and performs public outreach with state/local governments, private, and public organizations. Prior to coming to the EPA, he spent 23 years performing environmental work for several consulting engineering firms. His experience includes water, wastewater, and effluent air treatment designs, contaminated site investigations and cleanups, PST installation and removal engineering, Phase I environmental site assessments, NEPA document preparation, environmental impact statements, and an array of environmental and civil engineering projects. Steven has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley, and is a P.E. in environmental engineering.
Dave Renné, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dave Renné has been a senior program leader at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for 10 years, managing NREL's solar resource-assessment activities and coordinating the Laboratory's resource-assessment programs. Prior to his arrival at NREL in 1991, he was a staff scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where, for many years, he worked on the wind resource-assessment program there. He also was assigned to EPA's Office of Research and Development in Washington, D.C., for two years, and spent two years at the Office of the Director of the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, where he assisted in the completion of the 1990 National Assessment. Dave has a master's in atmospheric sciences and a Ph.D. in earth resources from Colorado State University.
Walter Short, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Walter Short is a principal policy analyst with the NREL Strategic Energy Analysis and Applications Center in Golden, Colorado. Walter works with the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in formulating and analyzing policy initiatives with an emphasis on climate change and the role of renewable energy. As a part of his climate change efforts, he coauthored a recently released report, "Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future," examining the opportunities to address key energy and environmental challenges facing the United States through clean energy technologies and policies. This study relies heavily on Walter's work on the representation of renewables in energy market models and scenarios. He also serves as group manager for the NREL analysis staff in Golden, Colorado. Walter has a bachelor's in mathematics from the University of Georgia and a master's in operations research from Stanford University.
Scott Sitzer, Energy Information Administration
Scott Sitzer is director of the Coal and Electric Power Division of the Energy Information Administration (EIA). He has been with EIA and its predecessor agency, the Federal Energy Administration, since 1976, and has experience in the modeling and analysis of most of the major components of energy supply and demand. Scott currently is responsible for the development and maintenance of mid- and long-term models for electricity, coal, and renewable fuels for the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). He has made major contributions to the analysis of such energy issues as electricity deregulation, greenhouse gas mitigation, the impacts of productivity improvements on energy prices, and the impacts on world oil prices of changes in U.S. energy policy. Scott holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of New Mexico, and a master's degree in economics from George Washington University.
Robert G. Sliwinski, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Rob Sliwinski is the chief of the Stationary Source Planning Section in the Division of Air Resources at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. He is responsible for stationary source inventory and planning activities in New York State, as well as stationary source regulatory development, including the NOx Budget Program and other regional ozone control measures. Rob is the New York representative to the Ozone Transport Commission's Stationary/Area Source Committee, the NESCAUM Attainment Planning, the Standing Air Emissions Workgroup, and the Great Lakes Commission's Air Toxic Inventory Steering Committee. He also is on the Center for Clean Air Policy State Roundtable on Climate Change and is responsible for the department's efforts in developing the "New York State Action Plan for Greenhouse Gas Emissions." Rob has a bachelor's in forest engineering from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and a master's in environmental engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Rita Trujillo, New Mexico Air Quality Bureau
Rita Trujillo is the program manager of the Control Strategies Section of
New Mexico's Air Quality Bureau. Rita, who has been with the bureau since August 1998, is responsible for development of New Mexico's State Implementation Plan for the Regional Haze Rule. She has 12 years of environmental experience, including two years as the environmental coordinator for a geothermal energy company in Empire, Nevada. She has a bachelor's degree from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.
Christopher Wentz, New Mexico Energy Conservation and Management Division
Chris currently serves as director of the Energy Conservation and Management Division (ECMD) of the State of New Mexico's Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department. ECMD is the division of New Mexico state government responsible for planning, implementing, and managing projects relating to energy efficiency, alternative transportation, and renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass. Chris holds a bachelor of science degree in biology from Southwest Missouri State University. He represents the State of New Mexico on various committees of the Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB), including the Air Pollution Prevention Forum of the Western Regional Air Partnership; Western Governors' Association (WGA), including its Border Energy Initiative; and the Governors' Ethanol Coalition, on which he currently serves as chairman of the Environment Committee. In New Mexico, he directs the activities of the NM Sustainable Energy Collaborative, a voluntary, public-private partnership of diverse organizations committed to promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Arthur Williams, Jefferson County Air Pollution Control District
Art Williams is director of the Jefferson County Air Pollution Control District, a position he has held since December 1996. From 1990-1996, he was a partner heading the environmental practice of the Louisville law firm Woodward, Hobson, and Fulton. Before that (1980 to 1990) he served at the Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet as staff attorney, general counsel, and commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection, where he managed the state's Divisions of Air Quality, Water, Waste Management, and Laboratory Services. And from 1978 to 1980 he served as the environment adviser to the City of Louisville, Kentucky. Art also is active in the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials where he served as president from 2001-2002. He has been on the board of directors since 1997, relating to his role as cochair of the Global Warming and Stratospheric Ozone Committee. Art holds a B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Tennessee.
Michael Winka, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Mike Winka has worked for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for 21 years. His current responsibilities are as administrator for the Department's Office of Innovative Technology and Market Development, which includes managing a program to help promote New Jersey's innovative energy and environmental technology companies through a voluntary technology verification/certification program. Mike's office is working with the Environmental Commissioners of the States (ECOS) to implement an interstate reciprocity system for technology and regulatory acceptance. His past duties with the DEP included developing New Jersey's Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling Regulations, serving as chief in the Bureau of Resource Recovery, and working as executive assistant responsible for management of special projects including research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) pilot
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