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Energy Analysis Forum 2004 (Nov. 9-10)
The following experts spoke during the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's fourth Energy Analysis Forum in Golden, Colorado, on November 9-10, 2004.
"Understanding the U.S. Strategic Interests in Expanding Renewable Energy Systems Worldwide"
Doug Arent, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Doug Arent is a principal analyst with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Part of the Strategic Energy Analysis and Applications Center (SEAAC) staff since May 2004, he specializes in clean energy markets and technology strategy; strategic planning and financial analysis competencies; and international and governmental policies. Arent also has expertise in the market aspects of renewable energy-related technologies. Prior to coming to NREL, he was a management consultant to clean energy companies. Arent also was director of OEM sales and director of strategic marketing and business development at Network Photonics; director of Media Gateway Products and strategic planning manager at Lucent Technologies (now Avaya); and vice president of business development for Amonix Inc. During his first stint with NREL, Arent was program development manager, senior project coordinator, and senior research associate. Arent is part of the Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School. He also has a master's in business administration at Regis University, a Ph.D. in physical and analytical inorganic chemistry at Princeton University, and a bachelor's in systems engineering and chemistry from Harvey Mudd College in California.
Eldon Boes, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Eldon Boes is the past director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Strategic Energy Analysis and Applications Center (SEAAC), which includes analysts working both at NREL's primary location in Golden, Colorado, and in NREL's Washington office. He also is manager of the Washington office. Boes 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 the Lab 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, Boes worked in several solar technology program areas including photovoltaics (PV) systems and applications development, PV concentrator R&D, and solar thermal collector development. He also was supervisor or manager of several solar programs including the PV Program at Sandia. Boes has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Purdue University, and he taught mathematics for eight years before joining Sandia. He and his wife, Joan, live in Alexandria, Virginia. Boes has been commuting by bicycle for 40 years.
Matthew H. Brown, The Energy Project
Matthew H. Brown is the director of the National Conference of State Legislatures' Energy Project. He is responsible for advising state legislators on issues such as electric industry regulation, energy security, renewable energy, state energy planning, energy efficiency, and alternative-fuel vehicles. Brown has an extensive background in numerous areas of energy policy, and specializes in consulting services to state legislatures. He also has authored or coauthored numerous publications on energy issues, including a recent primer on electricity transmission, an analysis of the state role in energy security issues, analysis of federal and state jurisdiction over the electric power industry, energy and air quality issues, and numerous other related analyses. Brown has testified before more than 35 state legislative bodies on energy industry issues, and worked closely with many state legislatures on their own electricity policies. He has most recently completed consulting analysis projects with the states of Hawaii, Rhode Island, Montana, and California on electric industry regulation and power plant-siting issues. He also works extensively with other energy policy organizations and general energy audiences on these and other energy-related issues. Brown holds a BA from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and an MBA from New York University.
Karlynn Cory, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
Karlynn Cory, strategy and business development manager, works on Renewable Energy Trust issues at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC). Using her knowledge of the New England electricity market, Cory focuses her time on developing successful programs that will get new renewable projects built in the region, including addressing project-financing barriers and pertinent policy issues. Cory also is part of the team invovled in developing and executing the Massachusetts Green Power Partnership Ð a unique initiative that offers renewable project developers up to 10 years of price guarantees on renewable energy certificates (a.k.a. green tags), in order for them to secure financing. Prior to joining MTC, Cory was a renewables and markets specialist at La Capra Associates in Boston, where she performed renewable portfolio standard (RPS) cost projections in Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, and California. Cory has a master's in technology and policy from MIT and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Tufts University. Cory and her husband, Jonathan, recently returned from their honeymoon and live in Medford, Massachusetts.
Roger Duncan, Austin Energy
Roger Duncan, Austin Energy's deputy general manager for Distributed Energy Services, oversees Governmental Relations, Strategic Planning & Business Development, On-site Generation, Demand Side Management, and the Green Building Program for the City of Austin, Texas, municipally owned electric utility. Duncan also represents Austin Energy in local, state, and national forums on policy and energy issues. He serves as cochair for the Urban Consortium Sustainable Task Force; and, in this capacity, he advises municipal staff of the 50 largest cities and counties on energy and environmental matters. Duncan has been a leader in energy conservation and environmental policy for more than 20 years. Since joining the City of Austin management staff in 1989, he has overseen the development, implementation, and operation of water quality programs, air quality programs, environmental reviews, energy and water conservation programs, hazardous spill response, and home chemical collection. Prior to his years in city management, Duncan served four years as a City Council member. His record of legislation includes Lake Austin water quality ordinance, landscape ordinance, expansion of the environmental department, and establishing Austin's energy conservation programs. Duncan holds a B.A. degree with a major in philosophy, University of Texas at Austin.
Steven W. French, The Natural Marketing Institute
Steve French, a managing partner for the Natural Marketing Institute (NMI), has more than 25 years of strategic marketing, business development, and management experience. Complementing a BS and MBA in Marketing, French has accumulated extensive insight and knowledge into health, wellness, environmentalism, sustainability, and social responsibility across a multitude of products, services, and industries. French has unparalleled experience across a wide range of corporate business functions and has pioneered a range of consumer research databases. He is a frequent speaker at many industry events and conferences, a regular contributor to media sources, and an author of numerous published articles and written research reports.
Bobi A. Garrett, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Bobi Garrett is associate director of Planning and Technology Management (P&TM) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. Garrett joined NREL in November 1998 as a member of the laboratory's executive management team. The Planning and Technology Management division leads laboratory strategic planning, manages laboratory investment resources directed toward enhancing core competencies and developing new programs, conducts energy analyses to inform strategic and program planning, and transfers NREL technology to commercial partners. In addition, the division manages 11 major renewable energy and energy efficiency technology-development programs, as well as the programs that provide technical assistance to international, federal, and state and local governments. Prior to joining NREL, Garrett held a variety of line management and program leadership positions at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. She has focused her career primarily on research to further the understanding of how technical, business, social, and policy systems must interact to advance new technologies from concept to commercial application. She has had the opportunity to work across a number of market sectors Ð energy, environment, defense, and health care Ð for both government and commercial customers. This has given her a broad perspective on markets, emerging technologies, and the pathway from laboratory research to marketable products. Garrett has a B.S. in chemical engineering from Montana State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.
Christy Herig, Segue Energy Consulting
Christy Herig is the principal of Segue Energy Consulting, LLC, providing consulting services in renewable energy value analysis and land use. Segue's current focus areas are management and technical participation for the International Energy Agency, PV Power Systems, Task 10: Urban Scale PV Applications, value analysis for the PV industry and DOE's Million Solar Roofs Program, and preservation land use issues for local municipalities. Previous to Segue, Herig worked eight years as a principal engineer at the National Center for Photovoltaics of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a Department of Energy lab. Her NREL work was targeted at value analysis for PV applications, markets, and policy, as well as direct analysis support to the Energy Information Agency, state legislatures and agencies, municipalities, utilities, the building industry, and consumers. Herig's experience also includes 15 years at Florida Power Corporation running the full gamut of utility operations, including distribution, planning, generation, and development of new programs and services in power quality, PV, electric vehicles, and power electronics. Herig has held political office as city commissioner in a small Florida beach town. Her educational background is in chemical engineering.
Gary Kleiman, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management
Gary Kleiman is a senior scientist and the head of Science and Technology at Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), specializing in air quality issues related to U.S. energy infrastructure. His primary areas of interest include acid deposition, regional haze, fine particulate matter, and climate change. His doctoral studies involved the development of an inverse model to deduce regional emission levels of certain pollutants based on direct observations. Since that time, Kleiman has continued to work with various air quality and energy models and has been directly involved with several air quality assessment efforts on behalf of the Northeast States. He is currently managing the development of a New England-specific version of the MARKAL (market allocation) model, which will serve broad energy/environmental planning needs in terms of GHG and multipollutant emission-reduction goals.
Douglas C. Larson, Western Interstate Energy Board
Doug Larson is the executive director of the Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB), an association of 12 western states and three western Canadian provinces. This group includes Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Saskatchewan, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Members of the board are appointed by the governor or premier. The board, which has responsibility for all energy-related issues affecting the West, also serves as the energy arm of the Western Governors Association.
Ronald L. Lehr, American Wind Energy Association
Ronald L. Lehr practices law and consults clients about energy and telecommunications regulation and business matters. Current assignments include work for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on the DOE program ÒWind Powering AmericaÓ; for the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) on transmission issues for wind energy; and for Resolve Inc. on the National Wind Coordinating Committee. Lehr also works for national trade organizations and private firms on renewable energy policies and commercialization strategies. He appears as an expert witness, sponsoring testimony in utility merger, antitrust, and government claim litigation. Lehr served for seven years (1984 to 1991) as chairman and commissioner of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, and he serves on several corporate and foundation boards of directors and boards of advisers. He recently completed terms as an appointed member of a panel charged to make recommendations on electric industry restructuring to the Colorado General Assembly, and as president and commissioner of the Denver Board of Water Commissioners (the water utility for Denver and surrounding suburban areas).
Marwan Masri, California Energy Commission
Marwan Masri is the California Energy Commission's director for the Renewable Energy Program, which administers nearly $2 billion to support renewable resources in California. He has led the design, development, and implementation of California's Renewable Energy Program since 1996. Masri has more than 25 years of experience in the energy field, including directing an interdisciplinary team at the Energy Commission that conducted technical and policy research on a wide range of energy issues such as the comparative economics of alternative energy resources; valuation of environmental impacts of energy production; global climate change; and the economics of energy research, development, and demonstration. Masri has a graduate degree in economics from the University of California.
Jack McGowan, Energy Control Inc
Jack McGowan, CEM, is president of Energy Control Inc. (ECI), an energy service company and system integrator. ECI was recognized in 2003 as one of the Top 100 System Integrators in North America. McGowan and ECI have worked on numerous multimillion dollar projects in every capacity from design through financing. McGowan is also an author and has published five books, including Direct Digital Control. He also is under contract to publish a new book called Building Automation Online in 2005. The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) named him 1997 International Energy Professional of the Year, and he was admitted to the International Energy Managers Hall of Fame in 2003. He also is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Millennium edition. McGowan is editor of the Energy Online series of Energy User News (EUN), and he also sits on the technical advisory boards of EUN and the CABA publication. He is a contributing editor with Automatedbuildings.com and sits on the Builconn Advisory Council.
Dale McCormick, State of Maine
Dale McCormick is treasurer of the State of Maine, a position she's held for four terms. McCormick's political path began when she won a seat in the Maine Senate in 1990 and was re-elected twice in a conservative district. She then became the first woman to be elected treasurer of the State of Maine on December 4, 1996. As Maine's treasurer, McCormick has been very involved with corporate governance issues. She co-convened the first Institutional Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United Nations in November 2003 and founded the National Coalition on Corporate Reform along with several other treasurers and controllers. She co-signed letters to the SEC urging that climate risk be included in a corporation's annual filing, adopted proxy voting guidelines as well as the Mutual Fund Investment Principles for the Office of the Maine State Treasurer, and filed shareholder resolutions. McCormick has spent more than two decades fighting for jobs, economic justice, health care for all, human rights, and equality for women. In 1975, McCormick became the first woman in the country to complete a carpentry apprenticeship with the carpenter's union, and she has written two books: Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual for Woman and Housemending: Home Repair For The Rest of Us Ð both are out of print. In 1988, McCormick founded Women Unlimited, a program that successfully trains women on welfare to compete for high-paying jobs in trade and technical occupations; and, in 1984, she helped found and became the first president of the Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance (now Equality Maine). McCormick Ð who found her activist niche as treasurer Ð will have to leave the position at the end of December because of term limits.
Jennifer Moehlmann, Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Jennifer Moehlmann is an energy data analyst and a team leader in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources' Energy and Waste Management Bureau. Moehlmann helps plan, develop, and implement renewable energy programs in Iowa. She also is responsible for preparing economic assessments of the potential impact of policies on state resources, energy costs and supplies, monitoring fossil energy prices and inventories Ð and she serves as the primary contact for energy emergencies in Iowa. Prior to joining the bureau, Moehlmann was program coordinator for the nonprofit Export Council for Energy Efficiency for four years, where she managed five subcontracts for a multiyear DOE grant to promote energy efficiency globally. Moehlmann has been with the bureau since 2000 and has a bachelor's in international affairs with a concentration in environmental studies from The George Washington University.
Ryan Pletka, Black & Veatch
Ryan Pletka is a project manager in Black & Veatch's Renewable Energy Group. Pletka, who is very active in assessments of advanced, distributed, and renewable energy technologies, has participated in Black & Veatch assessments of more than 40 renewable energy projects and technologies in the past few years. Projects have included strategic planning assessments, feasibility studies, due-diligence investigations, technical and financial analyses, critical-flaw reviews, market analyses, and project proposal evaluation. Pletka has been involved in projects representing a wide variety of generation technologies including wind, biomass and waste, energy storage, cogeneration, microturbines, fuel cells, Stirling engines, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, hydroelectric, ocean energy, zero-point (free energy), gasification, and the various conventional energy technologies. Pletka has a master's in mechanical engineering from Iowa State University.
Walter Short, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Walter Short is a principal policy analyst with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Strategic Energy Analysis and Applications Center (SEAAC) in Golden, Colorado. Short works with the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) in formulating and analyzing policy initiatives with an emphasis on the market potential of renewable energy and climate change. As a part of his climate-change efforts, he was a coauthor on the inter-laboratory 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. Short is now leading an effort to develop more detailed models for the market penetration of wind and solar. He also serves as group manager for NREL's analysis staff in Golden. Short has a bachelor's in mathematics from the University of Georgia and a master's in operations research from Stanford University.
Roya Stanley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Roya Stanley leads the State and Local Initiatives Group (SALI) for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The State and Local Initiatives Group provides a bridge between state and local governments and the researchers at NREL. SALI also supports a number of Department of Energy (DOE) initiatives and works closely with DOE regional offices and programs. Prior to joining NREL, Stanley worked for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for 18 years, 16 of which were with the state energy office. During those 16 years, she contributed to the development of the Iowa Building Energy Management program, which has resulted in more than $150 million in investment in energy efficiency; contributed to the development of the switchgrass initiative, which has laid the groundwork for a cellulosic fuel of the future; and contributed to the crafting of Iowa's RPS, resulting in wind development in Iowa that has exceeded the requirement. Her last two years with the DNR were spent as the administrator for the Waste Management Assistance Division, connecting energy to environmental impacts. Decision-making using the best analysis was a hallmark of these Iowa efforts and one of the critical factors to achieving policy change and program results. Her education includes an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Colorado State University.
Blair G. Swezey, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Blair G. Swezey is a principal policy adviser at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. At NREL, Swezey advises utilities, power marketers, and state and federal policy makers on the formulation of renewable energy programs and policies. He is editor of the State Renewable Energy News, a newsletter on state-based renewable energy activities prepared for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), and he has prepared and presented testimony in numerous regulatory and legislative proceedings. Swezey currently leads NREL's green power market analysis activities; and, in the past, served as manager of NREL's integrated resource planning and utility analysis activities. He has published numerous articles and reports on renewable energy markets and policies, and he oversees the Green Power Network, an Internet site that covers the green power marketing industry. In 2003, Swezey spent four months at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, where he participated in a study of renewable energy policies in IEA Member Countries. Before joining NREL in 1987, Swezey spent eight years on the executive staff of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. He holds a B.S. degree in political economy of natural resources from the University of California at Berkeley and completed graduate studies in economics at San Jose State University.
Frank Thompson, Nebraska Public Power District
Frank Thompson currently serves as the Renewable Energy Development manager for the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD). Some recent accomplishments for NPPD have been approval of the construction of a 60 MW wind energy facility near Ainsworth, Nebraska, as well as development of the first farm-based methane recovery project in Nebraska Ð an 80 kW generator fueled with methane from an 8,000 hog-finishing confinement. Thompson also helped complete the first deliberative polling effort in Nebraska in 2003, and assisted in development of the first two wind turbines in Nebraska that went into service in 1998. Thompson previously served in management and engineering positions in coal-fired power plants for 19 years. He received his bachelor's in mechanical engineering from the University of Nebraska in 1975.
Rick Weston, Regulatory Assistance Project
Rick Weston is a director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. From 1989 to 1999, Weston served as economist and hearing officer at the Vermont Public Service Board; and, from 1994 to 1997, he was cochair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' (NARUC) Staff Subcommittee to the Committee on Energy Conservation from. He also served as cochair of NARUC's Staff Subcommittee on Electric Industry Restructuring in 1996 and 1997. Weston also worked as an energy and economic consultant for clients in the United States and Middle East, as well as the American International Group in Saudi Arabia. Weston received his M.A. in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1987 and his B.A. in English literature from Middlebury College in 1979. He also received advanced intensive training in Arabic from the American University in Cairo in 1986.
Martin Whittaker, Swiss Re Financial Services Corporation
Martin Whittaker is senior vice president and environmental specialist at Swiss Re Greenhouse Gas Risk Solutions, which he recently joined. Previous to Swiss Re, Whittaker was managing director with Innovest Strategic Value Advisors Inc., specializing in long-term sustainability trends, carbon finance, and nontraditional business risks in the energy, mining, and telecommunications sectors. A former consultant and oil industry professional with Elf Aquitaine, he is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, where he taught environmental finance. He holds a Ph.D. in environmental risk management from the University of Edinburgh, an MBA in international finance from the University of London, as well as bachelor's and master's degrees from, respectively, the University of St. Andrew's and McGill University, Montreal.
Meredith M. Wingate, Center for Resource Solutions
Meredith Wingate is a program manager at the Center for Resource Solutions' (CRS) Clean Energy Policy Design and Implementation Program. Wingate leads CRS's tradable renewable certificate projects, which are focused on providing policy assistance to state regulators and regional groups working to form certificate-tracking programs. Through this work, Wingate is leading a national initiative to create a network of renewable certificate issuing and tracking bodies in North America. She also is working with fives states in the upper Midwest to design a certificate-tracking system for those states, and she is leading a project to create a series of Web-based workshops for regulators and their staff on best practices related to renewable certificates and related markets. Prior to this work, Wingate managed CRS's Green-e Certification Program. In this role, she worked with stakeholders across the United States to develop a Green-e certification standard for renewable energy and renewable certificate products in newly restructured U.S. markets. Wingate has a master's of environmental management in resource economics and policy from Duke University. She also holds a certificate in hazardous materials management from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor's in political science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Ryan Wiser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ryan Wiser is a scientist in the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He leads research in the planning, design, and evaluation of renewable energy policies, green power marketing opportunities, renewable energy economics, and electricity industry restructuring. Through his work at Berkeley Lab, Wiser has become a widely known national expert on the development and design of both system-benefits charge and renewables portfolio standard policies Ð he regularly advises state and federal agencies in the design and evaluation of these policies. Wiser also has a thorough understanding of the green power market and customer demand for renewable energy, and is a technical adviser to the Green-e certification program. His recent analytic work has included studies on the economics of wind power and the risk mitigation value of renewable electricity, as well as customer surveys of willingness to pay for renewable generation. Prior to his employment at Berkeley Lab, Wiser worked for Hansen, McOuat, and Hamrin Inc.; the Bechtel Corporation; and the AES Corporation. He received a B.S. in civil engineering from Stanford University and holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley. Wiser has published several research reports and journal articles on renewable energy markets and policy, including articles in The Electricity Journal, Energy Policy, Corporate Environmental Strategy, Public Utilities Fortnightly, Utilities Policy, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
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