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Regis Conrad

Job Title: 
Division Director of Advanced Energy Systems
Organization: 
USDOE

Regis has been with the Department of Energy for 13 years and currently with the Office of Fossil Energy as the Director of the Advance Energy Systems overseeing RD&D of the Gasification, Advanced Turbines, Fuel Cell, Critical Minerals and Coal to Products. In addition he oversees research and development for sensors and controls, extreme environment materials, water management. Previous to DOE he worked for the Department of the Navy as a Program Manager overseeing applied engineering of materials for topside systems onboard Navy vessels. He started his career worked for the U.S. Bureau of Mines conducting electrochemistry and fundamental research on carbon steels, stainless steels, high nickel alloys and composite materials.

USDOE Office of Fossil Energy R&D Enabling a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy

July 23rd, 2020

The potential of a hydrogen economy has been discussed for decades and a growing number of countries and industries are now investing in its potential. Much of this investment in research is coming from the United States and is being led by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Join us next week to discover how DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy Research & Development (R&D) is enabling a sustainable hydrogen economy.

Trump's CCS Rule: Details, Doubts and EPA Disputes

July 10th, 2020

June 1, 2020

By Carlos Anchondo, E&E News Reporter

A proposed rule issued by the Treasury Department last week to incentivize carbon capture and storage projects is getting mixed reviews from analysts, as questions linger about how the oil crash and coronavirus pandemic will affect the technology.

Ending The U.S. Ban On Nuclear Power Funding Is A Win For American Jobs, Developing Nations, And The Environment

July 8th, 2020

By Will Polen, USEA Senior Director

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation—America’s development bank—is considering an end to its policy prohibiting financial support for nuclear power projects. The resulting investment in U.S.-produced advanced nuclear technology would provide critically needed energy solutions to developing nations around the world.

USEA Chief Says When Pipeline Projects Shutdown, All Americans Lose, Global Poverty Increases

July 8th, 2020
Two major energy pipeline projects, which would have carried essential fuel from oil and gas fields to population centers in the Southeast and the Midwest, were shut down this week.

Indian Energy Minerals Forum

July 16th, 2020
The Indian Energy Minerals Forum originates from continued engagement with energy and mineral stakeholders where a one-day seminar on Indian Energy Minerals was held at the Reservation Economic Summit March 2020, Las Vegas, Nevada.  Since that time feedback from the tribal energy community has been received and a webinar series devised to further this conversation.  In conjunction with Department of Energy, the United States Energy Association, Sagebrush Hill Group LLC and industry partners, we present the Indian Energy Minerals Forum Webinar series.

Women In Energy: Angela Livino

July 7th, 2020

Angela Livino is the Director of Corporate Management Division at the Brazilian Energy Research Office (EPE in its Portuguese acronym). EPE aims at supporting the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy’s (MME) energy policies with studies and research on energy planning covering electricity, oil, natural gas and its derivatives and biofuels. EPE studies cover the areas of engineering, economics, modeling, policy and environment and where they overlap. 

Angela Livino

Job Title: 
Director of Corporate Management Division
Organization: 
Brazilian Energy Research Office (EPE)

Angela Livino is the Director of Corporate Management Division at the Brazilian Energy Research Office (EPE in its Portuguese acronym). EPE aims at supporting the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy’s (MME) energy policies with studies and research on energy planning covering electricity, oil, natural gas and its derivatives and biofuels. EPE studies cover the areas of engineering, economics, modeling, policy and environment and where they overlap. 

Livino works at EPE since 2005, running studies in generation planning, hydropower inventory potential, electricity auctions and multiple discussions to improve the Brazilian energy system to ongoing changes in the nation's resource mix due to the growth of renewables.

Prior to EPE, she was a senior engineer from 2001 to 2005 at the Brazilian Power System Operator (ONS in its Portuguese acronym). ONS is the independent, not-for-profit organization that plans and operates the power system.

From 1997 to 2001 she worked as a researcher at CEPEL (Eletrobras Electricity Research Center) developing hydrological models. 

She received a Master´s Degree (2001) and a PhD (2015) in water resources and environmental sciences from the Civil Engineering Program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. During her PhD in 2013, she was a Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science at Harvard Kennedy School, holding a Fulbright Scholarship.

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July 2nd, 2020
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