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USEA Now - November 2018

October 31st, 2018
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Inaugural Energy Efficiency & Supply Forum

November 15th, 2018

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy Solid Oxide Fuel Program

November 8th, 2018

The Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy has supported the development and application of solid oxide fuel cells for nearly two decades.  The first half of this presentation briefly traces the history of fuel cells, discusses some of the technical aspects of solid oxide fuel cells, and describes their advantages and disadvantages.  The second half describes the solid oxide fuel cell program as implemented by the Office of Fossil Energy which includes a brief description of some of the projects supported by the Department and some insights on the routes t

Steven Ross

Job Title: 
Director, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program
Organization: 
U.S. Department of Energy

Since joining the office of Advanced Energy Systems within the Office of Fossil Energy, in August 2017, Dr. Ross has been engaged in several projects related to the chemistry and engineering considerations of combustion. These projects include: (1) developed two concepts to improve the competitiveness of lower rank western coals, (2) developed two engineering concepts for measuring flame temperature in a coal combustion furnace, (3) assembled a database for specific western coals, (4) reviewed and commented on several documents related to the sources and maintenance of critical minerals including certain rare earth elements, (5) became project manager of four Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) projects, (6) reviewed and analyzed the thermodynamics of supercritical carbon dioxide, (7) prepared a presentation to be given at the University of Michigan School of Nuclear Engineering on the use and engineering of supercritical carbon dioxide in power plants, (8) reviewed an additional seven TCF proposals for the measurement of selenium in a variety of water and waste water streams, and (9) began an investigation into the treatment of selenium in power plant waste streams with the carbon dioxide products of combustion. Dr. Ross became the program director for the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program in April of 2018.

Dr. Ross has over 30 years’ experience in the fields of high level and low level radioactive waste management, process control, process engineering, equipment design and fabrication, prototyping, process chemistry and analytical chemistry. Since joining DOE’s Office of Environmental Management in January 2008, Dr. Ross has participated in several high visibility programs. He managed the development and coordination of the Tank Waste Corporate Board meetings. He served on a QARD-based audit of the Defense Waste Processing Facility High-Level Waste vitrification operation. Based on his previous experience consulting with the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, he served as a reviewer on two essential documents from the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant: the Wasteform Compliance Plan and the Wasteform Qualification Report. Dr. Ross was a team member of the Technical Readiness Assessment review of the 233U Down-Blending project at Oak Ridge as well as the Lehman-style review of the DOE-Idaho Sodium Bearing Waste project. He provided support on Technical Readiness Assessment reviews of both the DOE Richland Sludge Treatment Project and the Hanford K-Basin. Throughout this entire period, Dr. Ross has had oversight responsibility for the DOE-Idaho Calcine/Hot Isostatic Pressing project.

Prior to coming to DOE he provided technical support to the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. The work included the development of the Waste Acceptance System Requirements Document, the Integrated Interface Control document, an engineering analysis of the Accelerator Transmutation of Waste proposal, and analyzed the impacts of a variety of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations on the management of radioactive waste including Code of Federal Regulation Parts 60, 61, 63, 72,73,74,835, and 961. 

Prior to consulting to DOE-RW Dr. Ross was both Manager of the Solidification Laboratory, an Applications Engineer, a Product Line Manager, a Project Manager and a research engineer. As a research engineer he both designed and fabricated a cyclone dust collector for coal particulates and an heat exchanger as part of a prototype coal calorimetry test stand for which he was the lead engineer. He developed several process control algorithms for both small and large scale plant engineering applications, using classical PID and ladder logic controllers as well as state of the art algorithms based on neural networks. He was also the lead engineer in the installation and set-up of a tern metal control system for a steel plant rolling mill.

 

Education

Central Michigan University, BSc, Chemistry, 1970, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

Baylor College of Medicine, PhD, Biochemistry, 1977, Houston, Texas

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USEA chief tells Johns Hopkins SAIS students energy sector is morphing - Dynamic jobs await new grads

Barry at John Hopkins SAIS
October 23rd, 2018

Washington — The U.S. energy industry is a dynamic and inclusive place to work with job opportunities that run the gamut from drone pilots and meteorologists to cyber specialists and policy experts, U.S. Energy Association Executive Director Barry Worthington told energy and environment graduate students at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced and International Studies (SAIS) on Monday.

Kenyan Electric Utilities and Regulators Train on PPAs and PPPs

October 16th, 2018

Nairobi, Kenya – Through funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Kenya mission, USEA organized two trainings on power purchase agreements (PPA) and public-private partnerships (PPP) for Kenya’s electricity sector. Today, over 2,295 MW of electricity is sourced from Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), the Geothermal Development Company (GDC) and independent power producers (IPPs) through PPAs.

James B. Robb

Job Title: 
President & CEO
Organization: 
North American Electric Reliability Corporation

James B. Robb

President and Chief Executive Officer

\James B. Robb assumed the role of president and chief executive officer of NERC in April 2018.

Mr. Robb oversees NERC’s mission of assuring the reliability and security of the North American bulk power system. As president and CEO, Mr. Robb directs key programs affecting more than 1,400 bulk power system owners, operators, and users, including mandatory NERC Reliability Standards, compliance monitoring, enforcement, situational awareness, event and risk analysis, reliability assessments and forecasting, cyber and physical security, and government relations. Mr. Robb also oversees the operations of the Regional Entities who support the reliability mission across North America.

From 2014 to 2018, Mr. Robb served as president and CEO of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) where he was responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of all of WECC’s activities.

Mr. Robb has more than 30 years of experience in the energy sector as an engineer, a consultant, and a senior executive. Prior to becoming WECC’s CEO in 2014, he held three major leadership roles in the industry at Northeast Utilities (now Eversource Energy) as senior vice president of Enterprise Planning and Development; at Reliant Energy (now part of NRG Energy) where he served as senior vice president of Retail Marketing for the competitive retail business in Texas and the Northeast; and at McKinsey & Company where he was a partner and the leader of the West Coast’s Energy and Natural Resource Practice. During his 15-year career at McKinsey, he worked closely with prominent electric power companies in California, western Canada, the Pacific Northwest, and the Rocky Mountain states, as well as with some of the region’s largest energy consumers.

Mr. Robb earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University in Indiana and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

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Sara Mullen-Trento

Job Title: 
Senior Technical Leader
Organization: 
Electric Power Research Institute

Sara Mullen-Trento, Ph.D, Senior Technical Leader with the Electric Power Research Institute, will share EPRI’s customer and community resilience research framework and its implications. EPRI’s Resilience Initiative addresses the needs of a broad stakeholder community by capturing perspectives from customers, policy makers, and utilities.  This comprehensive research initiative builds on their portfolio of foundational research in threat and vulnerability assessment, mitigation measures, understanding customer preferences, and resource valuation, and will maximize technology transfer to regulators, customer- and community-organizations through education, tools, and pilot projects.

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Elliot Roseman

Job Title: 
Program Director
Organization: 
United States Energy Association

Mr. Roseman has decades of domestic and international experience with executives in the energy industries, and expertise in clean energy, climate change and sustainability, markets and regulation, electric transmission, and resiliency. He founded and directed USEA’s Electricity Market Initiative for years, designed to integrate the power markets in 11 countries in Southeast Europe (SEE), create significant regional benefits, and stimulate new energy infrastructure and investment. He now directs the Clean Energy Program of USEA’s Just and Secure Energy Transition, in both SEE and Eurasia. 

Mr. Roseman started his career in solar energy decades ago, and from the outset he has been transforming the power sector worldwide. In that regard, he has advised public and private clients on energy markets, major investment projects, national and state energy policies, corporate and worldwide strategies, industry restructuring, new technologies and innovation, and more. He has advised the executives and partners of utilities, financial institutions, law firms, private power companies, energy regulators, ministries, multi-lateral institutions, and trade associations. 

Mr. Roseman’s accomplishments include the:

• Creation of proactive, innovative and effective government and corporate energy strategies

• Development of pathbreaking studies and papers to foster regional energy transformation

• Analysis and recommendations for the grid to add large amounts of intermittent resources 

• Ensuring integrated plans that ensure resource adequacy and meet regulatory requirements

• Application of market analysis to identify and finance investment opportunities

• Design and negotiation of industry restructuring, and its effective implementation

• Achievement of sharp emissions reductions, renewable expansions, and resilience gains

• Recommendation and acceptance of policies to stimulate billions in private sector investment

• Successful implementation of numerous competitive resource solicitations, leading to thousands of megawatts of efficient, cost-effective, clean generation.

Mr. Roseman works at the intersection of energy technology, regulation and markets. He has worked directly in more than 20 nations, and has evaluated markets, investments, policies and opportunities in over 60 countries. He is also on the Board and the Treasurer of the Energy Bar Association’s Charitable Foundation.

Mr. Roseman holds a BA in Economics from Yale University, and both MBA and MS degrees (Operations Research) from Stanford University. He speaks frequently at energy conferences and organizations and has authored over 50 articles. He was an adjunct professor in the Graduate Schools of Business and Political Management at George Washington University from 2006-14, teaching a self-designed course on “Worldwide Energy Challenges and Opportunities.”

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Candice Castaneda

Job Title: 
Counsel, Legal and Regulatory
Organization: 
North American Electric Reliability Corporation

Candice Castaneda is Counsel with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). Formerly, Ms. Castaneda was an associate at Paul Hastings where she focused on energy-related projects, transactions and controversies. Ms. Castaneda received a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from the University of Miami. She is a member of the Energy Bar Association, and is Vice-Chair of the Professional Education Council.

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