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Washington D.C. Office

The following SEAC staff are based in our Washington D.C. Office. They support a variety of programs and activities, and often are the liaison between the U.S. Department of Energy and staff based in Golden, Colorado.

Team Lead: Margaret Mann (Golden)
Administrative Assistant: Dani Salyer (Golden)

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Austin Brown

Senior Analyst (Strategic Planning)

Areas of expertise

  • Crosscutting low-carbon strategies
  • Clean transportation technologies and policies

Primary research interests

  • Clean energy research portfolio planning
  • Energy and society
  • Sustainable transportation systems

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David J. Feldman

Senior Financial Analyst

Areas of expertise

  • Renewable energy project finance
  • Corporate finance
  • Solar energy market analysis

Primary research interests

  • Economic and market analysis of renewable energy technologies
  • Renewable energy policy
  • Corporate finance in energy sector

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Thomas Jenkin

Senior Analyst

Areas of expertise

  • Valuation and risk management
  • Market structure and operation of natural gas and power markets
  • Economic analysis of storage technologies
  • R&D

Primary research interests

  • R&D and commercialization of energy technologies
  • Cost/benefit analysis of renewable technology programs
  • Storage
  • Economic and market analysis of renewable energy technologies

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Margaret Mann

Group Manager

Areas of expertise

  • Technical and Economic Feasibility Analysis
  • Environmental Analysis
  • Strategic planning for market development

Primary research interests

  • Life cycle assessment of renewable energy and conventional technologies
  • Public/private sector technical support
  • Evaluation of technical, policy, and programmatic benefits

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Robert M. Margolis

Senior Analyst

Areas of expertise

  • Energy-economic-environmental modeling, including national and global-scale models
  • Economic and market analysis of renewable energy technologies
  • R&D planning and evaluation
  • Long-term scenario development

Primary research interests

  • Science and technology policy
  • Research, development, and demonstration policy
  • Energy technology
  • Environmental policy

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Kathleen Nawaz

Senior Project Leader II - Washington D.C. Office Section Supervisor

Areas of expertise

  • Deployment of alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles
  • Development and application of analytic tools to displace petroleum
  • Legislative and policy analysis

Primary research interests

  • Market transformation of alternative and replacement fuels in transportation

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Dani Salyer

Administrative Assistant/JISEA Coordinator

Areas of expertise

  • Office management
  • Industry research
  • Proposal support
  • Copy writing and editing
  • Executive level administrative and project support
  • Sales and marketing management
  • Operational systems development

Primary research interests

  • Multi-organizational administration

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Thomas Schneider

Energy and Financial Analyst

Analysis expertise

  • Distributed generation and storage
  • Advanced power generation and transmission technologies
  • Technology assessment
  • Strategic and scenario planning
  • R&D policy and management

Primary research interests

  • Variable renewable resources and the grid
  • Role of electrification in society
  • Energy efficiency and demand response
  • Energy storage

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Monisha Shah

Senior Energy Analyst

Areas of expertise

  • Energy, environmental, and economic modeling and analysis
  • Benefits analysis (environmental, economic, health)
  • Strategic analysis, program development and management, international capacity building

Primary research interests

  • International and domestic climate change policy
  • Intersections between energy, environment, and economics
  • The impact of climate change and energy policy design on the deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy
  • Strategies to mitigate both GHGs and local emissions and further economic development in China and other developing countries

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If you have questions about our programs or would like to contact our staff, please email Dani Sayler.