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Eric Redman

Job Title: 
President
Organization: 
Summit Power Group

Eric Redman is the President of Summit Power Group and its subsidiary, Summit Carbon Capture, which focuses on CO2 capture for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).  He helps lead Summit’s efforts on coal gasification with carbon capture, including the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), and carbon capture from natural gas and other technologies.  He works with several national environmental groups on climate matters, and leads Summit’s carbon capture projects abroad, including the proposed Caledonia Clean Energy Project, a TCEP replica in Scotland.  Mr. Redman formerly chaired the Clean Energy Technology group at a major international law firm.  He was an aide to the late U.S. Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) and wrote The Dance of Legislation, a best-selling account of Congressional enactment of the National Health Service Corps.  He was educated at Harvard College, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard Law School.  He was chosen for Best Lawyers in America for energy matters in 2007, 2008, and 2009, is active in several conservation organizations, and recently joined the Board of Directors of the Gasification Technologies Council.

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Speaker

James D. Boyd

Job Title: 
Former Commissioner
Organization: 
California Energy Commission

James D. Boyd is a former Commissioner of the California Energy Commission.  He was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to a second five-year term on the California Energy Commission on February 2, 2007. He was first appointed to the California Energy Commission on February 6, 2002, and he was appointed to the Vice Chair position on June 16, 2006.

Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Boyd was Deputy Secretary and Chief of Staff of the California Resources Agency. He created and chaired the state's first Joint Agency Climate Change Team and the state's Natural Gas Working Group.

Commissioner Boyd served for fifteen years as the Chief Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), directing the nation's largest state air pollution control program. During this period, CARB led the nation in establishing new pollution control programs for motor vehicles and fuels, toxic air contaminants, consumer products, and industrial and area sources.

Commissioner Boyd focused on issues including transportation and served on the Board of Advisors of the University of California Davis' Institute of Transportation Studies. He was the Energy Commission's representative on the Steering Team of the California Fuel Cell Partnership, and served on the Governor's Hydrogen Highway Network Implementation Advisory Panel. He led the Commission's efforts to develop the State Alternative Fuels Plan requested by the Governor and Legislature. He oversaw the implementation of Assembly Bill 118, which established an Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program at the Energy Commission.

Vice Chair Boyd chaired the Bio-energy Interagency Working Group that developed the Governor's Bio-energy Action Plan and also served as the state's liaison to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and as California's representative on the Border Governors' Conference Energy Worktable. He also served on the Governor's Climate Action Team.

A California native, Commissioner Boyd received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Speaker

Mark Nechodom

Job Title: 
Director
Organization: 
California Department of Conservation

Mark Nechodom is the Director of California’s Department of Conservation (DOC). Mark has dedicated his professional life to integrating conservation, regulation and development right where it matters the most: on the land, on the farm, and in the forest. His mission has been to inspire sustainable production and practices while maintaining a sensible balance between economic opportunities, environmental health and human well-being. Mark’s background serves the Department well as he leads DOC’s four divisions, unified by the mission of Managing California’s Working Lands.

 

Prior to his recent appointment as DOC Director, Mark was a Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). He also served as Director of the Office of Environmental Markets at USDA, and as the Senior Climate Science Policy Advisor to the Chief of the US Forest Service. Mark was the USDA representative on the team that negotiated the greenhouse gas reporting protocol for forestry for California’s Climate Action Reserve, and provided scientific and technical support to the California Air Resources Board and the Board of Forestry in the development of the state climate strategy under AB 32 (the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006).

 

In the mid-1990’s, Mark helped to establish the California Biodiversity Council, which has continued to provide a forum for California’s local, state and federal conservation leadership for over two decades. He was the founder and co-director of the Land Use and Natural Resources program at UC Davis, a program that has provided training and certification for over 4,000 professional state and federal land and resource planners working across the US.

 

Mark earned his doctorate in political science and environmental policy from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught for several years. He is married to Debra Bowen and has a daughter who is attending college in Northern California.

 
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Speaker

California Opportunities for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery: Challenges & Policy Requirements

June 27th, 2012

USEA, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Global CCS Institute, the U.S. Carbon Sequestration Council and the California CCS Coalition, hosted a workshop on "California Opportunities for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery: Challenges & Policy Requirements".  The workshop took place on June 27, 2012 in Sacramento, California.

 

Dr. Darren Mollot, Ph.D.

Job Title: 
Director, Office of Clean Energy Systems
Organization: 
Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

Dr. Darren Mollot is currently the Director of the Office of Clean Energy Systems in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy.  This office is responsible for the development and demonstration of fossil fueled energy technologies including carbon capture, utilization and storage, which will allow the production of electricity and other products with near zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide.

 

Dr. Mollot has been working for the Department since 1992.  He has served in positions throughout the organization including as a Research Engineer at the DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) where he was awarded a patent for an emission control process, Project Management responsible for the Wabash River Coal Gasification project which remains one of the only two IGCC plants operating in the US, Technical Liaison to the National Carbon Capture Center (previously Power Systems Development Facility) where he lead the turbine combustor start-up team, Program Manager and Senior Technical Advisor.  

 

Prior to joining DOE, Dr. Mollot held various positions with the private sector including IBM and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. In 1999, he was selected as a Congressional Science Fellow and served a year on Senator Rockefeller’s staff advising on issues related to science and technology.

 

Dr. Mollot earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.  He has authored numerous publications and has given presentations and keynote addresses on topics related to the Office of Fossil Energy’s programs in both national and international forums. 

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Speaker

U.S.-China Fossil Energy Industry Forum

July 19th, 2012

On July 19th, 2012, the United States Energy Association organized and hosted the US- China Fossil Energy Industry Forum. This meeting concluded a study tour exchange between the U.S. Department of Energy and Shenhua Group on coal mining, power generation and coal conversion.  It provided senior DOE and Shenhua officials with an opportunity to recognize the achievements of this exchange, as well as to reaffirm the importance of U.S.-China fossil energy collaboration. During the forum, senior executives from DOE and Shenhua Group presented both the U.S.

2012 Energy Efficiency Forum

June 25th, 2012

America's Global Gas Supply Future

June 25th, 2012

Driven by technological breakthroughs in unconventional gas production, major increases in U.S. natural gas reserves and production have led to supply growth significantly outpacing forecasts in recent years. As a result, natural gas producers have sought new and additional sources of demand for the newfound volumes. One proposed end-use is the exportation of U.S. natural gas in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Tom Choi

Job Title: 
National Practice Leader - Gas
Organization: 
Deloitte MarketPoint LLC

Tom Choi is the natural gas market lead for Deloitte MarketPoint LLC.  Tom is an international energy economist, having led projects for leading energy companies around the world.  During his 25-year career in management consulting, he has assisted senior management in client organizations make strategic decisions in face of risk and uncertainty.  He helped develop the World Gas Model (WGM), the industry standard in economic model of the global gas market.  Tom is the author of a number of publications including “Navigating a Fractured Future-Insights into the North American Natural Gas Market” and “Made in America - The economic impact of LNG exports from the United States.”  He holds a M.S. degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University and B.A. degree in Economics from University of California, Los Angeles.

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Speaker

SECI TSP Generation Investment Study-2005

January 1st, 2013
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