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Chad Rupe

Job Title: 
Administrator for Rural Utilities Service
Organization: 
USDA, Rural Development
Mr. Chad A. Rupe has served as Administrator for Rural Utilities Service since June 27, 2019 after serving as Acting Administrator since April 30, 2019. Previously, he served as USDA Rural Development State Director of Wyoming from 2017 to 2019. He was a leader for rural broadband, serving on the Rural Development State Directors Broadband Working Group and assisting state government with efforts to deploy broadband in rural Wyoming. Mr. Rupe has also championed rural water utilities projects and financing for sustainable electric infrastructure investments. Before joining USDA, Rupe spent more than 13 years in the banking industry specializing in commercial lending in Wyoming. He began his service to our country in the United States Army. Mr. Rupe is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned his MBA from the University of Phoenix. He is married with three children.

USEA CONSENSUS WEBINAR: Supporting the Next Generation of CCUS Projects: Highlights of the USDA-DOE Collaboration

May 21st, 2020

In 2019, the Rural Utility Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of Fossil Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy entered into a memorandum of understanding to support commercial deployment of carbon capture utilization and storage projects. The MOU recognizes the strategic importance of coal in the American energy portfolio and the potential of CCUS technology to protect the environment while stimulating job growth and economic development in rural America. 
 

A Memo From Our Executive Director

May 13th, 2020
USEA is in its 9th week of working from home with our office completely closed. And we will likely be closed another few weeks to comply with the extended stay at home order of Washington, DC Mayor, Muriel Bowser. 

Recommendations for Maintaining Utility Cybersecurity in the Time of COVID-19

May 11th, 2020

Energy is fundamental to health security, national security, and democracy. Utility companies around the world are on the front lines of the current pandemic, taking extraordinary steps to keep power flowing to hospitals, homes and other critical services.

Mitigating Hydrocarbon Market Volatility

May 7th, 2020

Regional Complexities

May 4th, 2020

Let's be honest. Even with sophisticated analysis, there are challenges to bringing power market integration in SEE to fruition:

Electrons need to be managed as well as markets. Opening the borders could cause congestion or reliability issues that the grid owners must anticipate. A number of the eleven EMI countries are well connected with each other, but others are not, nor are they fully connected with Central Europe.

Southeast Europe: Emerging Frontier for Power Market Integration (Final Report)

November 25th, 2019
Program Publications

Southeast Europe: Emerging Frontier for Power Market Integration

May 4th, 2020
Electricity markets around the world have been working to integrate fragmented systems for several decades, and it is still a work in progress.

Women In Energy: Wasantha Perera

May 1st, 2020

Ms. Wasantha Perera is the present Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Power & Energy in Sri Lanka. Prior to this she has served as Permanent Secretary to the Ministries of Health and, Science, Technology & Vocational Training.

Wasantha Perera

Job Title: 
Permanent Secretary
Organization: 
Ministry of Power & Energy, Sri Lanka

Ms. Wasantha Perera is the present Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Power & Energy in Sri Lanka. Prior to this she has served as Permanent Secretary to the Ministries of Health and, Science, Technology & Vocational Training

She is an officer of Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS). Having worked in many different disciplines she has served in key positions in the Ministries of Finance, Defence and Foreign Affairs.

She has served for the UNDP as National Project Coordinator in Foreign Aid Coordination Project and a Tsunami Recovery Project.

During 2010-2012, she served as a senior diplomat in Washington DC.

Mrs Perera has represented Sri Lanka in many different fora, that includes Annual Meetings and Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank.

Ms. Perera was instrumental in establishing Sri Lanka's premier national security think-tank and research body, the ‘Institute of National Security Studies of Sri Lanka'.

In 2017 Ms. Wasantha Perera was appointed as the first female Director General of - Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration – the training institution of Civil Servants.

A Science graduate from the University of Peradeniya, Ms. Perera possesses a Masters degree in Project Management from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura and Postgraduate Diploma in Economics Development from the University of Colombo.

Profile Type: 
Non-Member

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